M. Qahees
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Director · Screenwriter

Mohammad

QAHEES

Film · Television · Visual storytelling
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001 — Note

A Syrian-Dutch writer and director working across film and visual storytelling. The work is drawn from reality, shaped by human detail, silence, and emotional realism.

Mohammad Qahees began his career in Turkey as an assistant director before moving into directing television programs and short films. His films are quiet portraits of fragile characters, internal conflict, and intimate human experiences.

— M. Q.

Index 003 — Biography

Drawn from
reality.

Mohammad Qahees, portrait against a textured wall
Plate 01 — Utrecht

Mohammad Qahees works in poetic realism: a cinema of small rooms, long pauses, and people who do not quite say what they mean.

A Syrian-Dutch writer and director working across film and visual storytelling, with a poetic realist approach.

He began his career in Turkey as an assistant director before moving into directing television programs and short films, developing a visual language shaped by human detail, silence, and emotional realism.

His work is drawn from reality, often exploring fragile characters, internal conflict, and intimate human experiences.

Mohammad has written and directed several independent projects, and graduated from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht in the Netherlands.

Index 004 — Festivals & Selections

Where the work
has travelled.

  1. 2026Go Short - International Short Film Festival NijmegenNijmegenMamadouOfficial Selection

Index 005 — Correspondence

For festival submissions, screenings, and conversations about cinema:

Address

Ravenswade 212C
3439 LD, Nieuwegein
The Netherlands

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