Kurdwin Ayub, born in 1990 in Iraq, is a filmmaker and artist based in Vienna. Her first fictional feature film, Sonne (2022), premiered at the 2022 Berlinale in the Encounters competition and won the Best First Feature Award. She was also nominated for European Discovery at the 35th European Film Awards. Moon (2024) is her second feature film, which World Premiere was held at the Locarno’s Concorso Internazionale, winning the Special Jury Prize.
