Black Kite
OFFICIAL SELECTION TIFF 2017
Premiered at Toronto International Festival and played at 20 festivals around the world. Winner of three Leo Awards for Best Writer, Best Director, and Best Picture. Nominated for Canadian Screen Award for Best Composer.
Work
Reel 2020
TEDx Kabul: Healing Through Storytelling
SESAME STREET AFGHANISTAN
In the Know
Media Stories
Composer Jaap Nico Hamburger to release ‘Chamber Symphonies Nos 1 and 2’ with Leaf Music
August 26, 2020
Award-winning Canadian Filmmaker, Tarique Qayumi, created this moving film about young children subjected to the horrors of war, which was further heightened by Jaap’s symphony.
Filmmaker expresses childhood memories through creative writing
April 20, 2020
Former Langara student Tarique Qayumi reveals his journey to Canada as an Afghan refugee
Film Nominees
2019 Achievment in Music - Original Score
Feb 20, 2019
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television Screen Awards.
Meet the 2019 NSI Totally Television students
Nov 14, 2018
National Screen Institute
Phil Lind Multicultural Artist in Residence
August 20, 2018
UBC Theater and Film 2018/19
Black Kite the big winner at a tough-minded Leo Awards
July 3, 2018
Georgia Straight
"Black Kite" director Tarique Qayumi on his love for Afghanistan, despite its dangers
June 1st, 2018
Globe and Mail
Tarique Qayumi on his film "Black Kite"
Jan 31st, 2018
Face 2 Face with David Peck
Why I Risked My Life Making a Movie in Afghanistan
Nov 30th, 2017
VICE Magazine
Tarique Qayumi wants to heal Afghanistan through the art of storytelling
Sept 6th, 2017
Q with Tom Power, CBC Radio,
Kabul Camera
July 1st, 2013
UCLA Magazine