Qutaiba Barhamji was born in Damascus in 1982 and spent his childhood between Syria and Russia. He studied medicine at the University of Volgograd and later graduated with a degree in cinema from ESEC in Paris. He works as a film editor for short films and engaging documentaries. He speaks four languages fluently and has edited films in 12 languages. Among his projects are Andrei Schtakleff’s La Montagne Magique (FID Marseille, IFFR 2015), Toomas Järvet’s Rough Stage (IDFA 2015), Olga Kravet’s It’s getting Dark (IDFA 2016), Maria Kourkouta’s Spectres are haunting Europe (Jihlava 2016). In 2015 he directed his first short film Wardé.