Director and photographer Zaradasht Ahmed, born and raised in northern Iraq, is a Kurdish–Norwegian filmmaker. His previous work includes the award-winning documentary Road to Diyarbakır. He has many years of experience working with documentary filmmaking in the Middle East, North-Africa, and Asia, as well as with training local people in documentation. His film on the topic of illegal immigration to Europe, Fata Morgana, has been screened at several prestigious film festivals. Nowhere to Hide, on the death triangle of Iraq, was the opening film at Verzió 2017.