Ameer Fakher Eldin


Ameer Fakher Eldin is a Syrian film director currently based in Germany,
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Biography

He was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, to Syrian expatriate parents from the Golan Heights. He directed a number of short films, including Between Two Deaths and Voicemail in the 2010s.
His feature directorial debut, The Stranger , premiered in the Giornate degli Autori program at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. The film, the first in a planned trilogy of films about people from the Arabic world living in exile, was selected as the Palestinian submission for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards.
Yunan, the second film in the trilogy, premiered in February 2025 at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.

Filmography