Fenar Ahmad is a Danish filmmaker of Iraqi origin. He was born in 1981 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, to immigrant Iraqi parents. In 1986 the family emigrated to Denmark. There, he studied film in the alternative film school Super16. He is known for the award-winning 2010 short film Megaheavy. In 2014, Ahmad directed the long feature film Flow, starring Danish rapper Kian Rosenberg Larsson, better known as Gilli. In 2017, his second feature Darkland topped the Danish Box Office, reaching over 180,000 admissions. The film stars Dar Salim as a doctor who gives up his privileged lifestyle and sets out on a mission through Copenhagen’s criminal underworld to avenge his younger brother’s death.