Aida Schlaepfer

Who is Aida Schlaepfer?

Aida Schlaepfer is a Swiss film director and writer. Born in Baghdad, to a Lebanese mother and an Iraqi father, and spending her life between her parents two countries, Schlaepfer has experienced living in a war-torn country and is aware of how this can affect an entire life. This led way to her most notable piece Gangs of Baghdad, which was entered in the Al-Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival at Doha in Qatar and the French Culture Centre in Cairo, Egypt.

Schlaepfer studied art and media in Zurich.

Director Aida Schlaepfer she is Swiss, originally from the Middle East where she studied German for several years before eventually settling in Switzerland. Always interested in film and the arts despite having been trained as an accountant, Aida earned a degree in Art and Media Design at F+F Schule für Kunst und Mediendesign in Zurich. In 2003, she relocated to Egypt to attend the High Cinema Institute at the prestigious Academy of Arts in Cairo, earning a post-graduate diploma in Film Directing. Aida has several films to her credit, including Shadow Black and White, Silent Screening inside a Woman, East and West Dancing, Marionette, Gangs of Baghdad, Homeland, and an educational film created in 2006 for the German School in Cairo.