Hezhwan Zendi was born in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan, Iraq.
Growing up Hezhwan was always a film fanatic, after high school he went to study
filmmaking at the University of Sulaymaniyah, he graduated majoring in writing
and directing, in his years in college he has written and directed more than five
short films, and participated in more than fifteen short films working in different
positions. In Duhok international film festival he won two international awards in a
project that was created by Goethe institute, then made the successful short film
(Paths) which he worked at as a writer and a cinematographer and won an
international award for cinematography. After that he made his first feature film
(1988) working as a writer and a director, which was a successful high budget
film.
