Josef Fares

Awards

Won 1 Nordic Council Film Prize Award

Nordic Council Film Prize 1 won

• ★ 2006 Nordic Council Film Prize Won

European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year 1 nominated

• ◦ 2001 European Discovery of the Year Nominated Jalla! Jalla!

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Josef Fares (born 19 September 1977) is a Swedish-Lebanese film director and video game designer of Assyrian descent. His brother is the actor Fares Fares, who has appeared in many of his films, including one of his major hits, A Way Out (2018). He is the founder of Hazelight Studios. He was presented with "The Game Of The Year Award" for his game It Takes Two at  The Game Awards in 2021. He also directed the game Split Fiction (2025). Description above from the Wikipedia article Josef Fares, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.