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name: "Karzan Mahmood"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/karzan-mahmood"
fi1m_id: "karzan-mahmood"
tmdb_id: 3473181
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-30T22:29:07.227374+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Karzan Mahmood

## Identity

Karzan Mahmood

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/karzan-mahmood
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** karzan-mahmood
- **TMDB ID:** 3473181
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3473181

Composer. Born in Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3473181

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Seed of the Sacred Fig*](https://film.one/film/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Karzan Mahmood is a Stockholm-based composer working in film, television, theatre and video games. He began playing music at a young age, performs several oriental instruments and toured internationally with a small ensemble early in his career before focusing on composition. He studied composition of art music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, graduating in 2013, and has been active as a film composer and conductor since 2010.

His film credits include the original score for *The Seed of the Sacred Fig* (2024), directed by Mohammad Rasoulof, with whom he has developed a close working relationship; he also scored Rasoulof’s *Destination: Origin* (2025). Other film work includes *Bullets* (2023), *Zero Nine* (2021) and *The Lawyer* (2018). Television credits include *Hamilton* (2020). In gaming, he has contributed to *Battlefield 1* (2016) and *Insurgency: Sandstorm* (2018–2023).

Mahmood received the SABAM Award for Best Young International Composer at the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent in 2010 and was nominated for Best Original Score – Independent Film (Foreign Language) at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards in 2024 for *The Seed of the Sacred Fig*.

*Sources: imdb.com, karzanmusic.com, filmmusicreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Seed of the Sacred Fig* (2024), Fi1m 80, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Sense of Water* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *The Seed of the Sacred Fig* (2024), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig.md)
- *Transient Happiness* (2023), Music Supervisor
- *Bullets* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Zero Nine* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *The Lawyer* (2018), series, Original Music Composer
- *The Dance of the Horses* (2015), Original Music Composer

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