“Masterly widescreen cinematography by Jean Dakar” - The Hollywood Reporter (2025)
“The camerawork, led by Jean Dakar is alert to beauty all around” - The Hollywood Reporter (2023)
“Painterly composition that should be hanging on a museum wall.” - Indie Wire (2025)
“Cinematographer Jean Dakar’s unobtrusive and perceptive lens captures the way that Nikola and his wife Jana scythe the fields together, their movements perfectly synchronised” - Screen Daily (2025)
“Concise and gently sentimental, all driven by beautiful cinematography by Jean Dakar - Business Doc Europe (2025)
“DoP and producer Jean Dakar’s majestic widescreen cinematography, complex compositions with figures perfectly positioned in a frame, and intense colours and strong contrast.” - Cineuropa (2025)
“Gorgeous piece of visual poetry… Some of the most stunningly immersive nature photography you’ll ever lay eyes on.” - Katie at the movies (2025)
“Jean Dakar’s gently observational camera capturing the warm and loose energy between them that sings with old love.” - Eye for Film (2025)
“The film The Tale of Silyan alternates moments of everyday life with images of rare natural beauty, captured together with cinematographer Jean Dakar, showing storks in their habitat and the rural Macedonian landscape.” - Film TV.it
Jean Dakar was born to Syrian-Turkish parents and has been raised between Germany, Spain and the UK. His multicultural background has ignited a deep interest in exploring different cultures around the world. Jean graduated in Film Production from the Arts University Bournemouth and began his career as a Cinematographer in London.
He developed a stark interest in subjects which tackle environmental and sociopolitical issues and began working on documentaries as a cinematographer and producer which have taken him from the ex-colonial stone town of Mozambique to the arctic Siberian tundra.
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