Date: April 2007
Location: UK and Iraq
Distributor: Channel 4 News UK (8 May 2007)
Credits: directed, filmed and edited by Claudio von Planta

This is an investigation into the Forced Repatriation of Iraqi Kurds who failed to obtain asylum in Britain.
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Date: March 2007
Location: Iraq
Distributor: Channel 4 News UK (8 May 2007)
Credits: directed, filmed and edited by Claudio von Planta

Presented by Karzan Sherabayani

With Karzan Sherabayani’s Kurdish connections we managed to hook up with a group of PKK fighters near the border with Iran.

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Date: February 2007
Location: Iraq
Distributor: Chanel 4 News (8 March 2007)
Credits: filmed and co-directed by Claudio von Planta

Presenter and Co-director – Karzan Sherabayani

This rather comical report captures a glimpse of the Kurdish alcohol smuggling operation into the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Date: August 1999
Location: Nagorny Karabakh, Azerbaijan
Distributor: Television Suisse Romande
Credits: filmed and directed by Claudio von Planta

This news report was designed to raise awareness about the fate of war widows in Nagorny Karabakh / Azerbaijan. I produced this film for Swiss TV in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

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Date: August 1985
Location: Afghanistan
Distributor: ZDF (Germany), Antenne 2 (France)
Credits: directed, filmed and edited by Claudio von Planta

This clip of an Afghan Mujahedin getting blown up in a minefield epitomises the beginning of my documentary filmmaker career. It was the most frightening moment in my life.

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