Kida Khodr Ramadan needs no introduction in Germany. And now, the popular star is ready to take the international film festival circuit!
The autodidact Ramadan has made a name for himself as an actor, director and screenwriter, winning several awards for his portrayal of Ali “Toni” Hamady, the head of a Berlin drug cartel, in the German drama series 4 Blocks, which has also been discovered by an ever-increasing international audience in the streaming age. He has further made a splash with the likes of Asbestos, a drama series about a soccer player whose dreams of going professional are shattered when he is framed by his uncle for a crime. Speaking of shattered: The series did just that to the record for the best start ever of a series on public broadcaster ARD’s ARD Mediathek streaming service.
He followed up that success with another ARD hit, namely two seasons of Testo, in which he starred while also co-writing and co-directing. The show follows five prisoners who rob a bank while on free access. When a security guard is accidentally killed, they are forced to take hostages, and the situation quickly escalates.
Ramadan also directed the movie Haltlos, starring Lilith Stangenberg as a woman experiencing a crisis and deciding to give up her newborn baby for adoption. The film earned rave reviews for its intensity. The creative further wrote, directed and starred in Égalité, the psychogram of a family father. He also handled all those jobs on the TV movie In Berlin Wächst Kein Orangenbaum, which can be translated as No Orange Trees Grow in Berlin. In it, he plays Nabil, who is released from prison after 15 years due to terminal cancer and finds out that he has a daughter, to whom he wants to leave his share of the loot from the robbery that put him behind bars.
