Orwa Nyrabia

A documentary film producer and film festival organizer from Syria, based in Berlin, Germany. Orwa studied acting at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus (1999). He played the main role in Yusri Nasrallah's "The Gate of Sun" (2004), worked as a 1st AD. Since 2004, Orwa is dedicated to documentary film production, training and exhibition. Orwa is a co-founder of Proaction Film, and Dox Box International Documentary Film Festival in Syria and of No Nation Films GmbH in Germany. Since beginning of 2018 he is the Artistic Director of Amsterdam's IDFA, arguably the largest and most influential documentary film festival in the world.