Samer Najari

Samer Najari is a Canadian filmmaker, who works predominantly but not exclusively with his wife Dominique Chila. They are most noted for their 2013 feature film Arwad.
Born in Moscow to a Syrian father and a Lebanese mother, Najari moved to Canada in 1994. His 2009 short film Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees , won the AQCC award for Best Short Film at the 2010 Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, and was a Jutra Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 12th Jutra Awards.
Rituals Under a Scarlet Sky , his 2024 short film directed with Chila, was a finalist for the short films category at the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois, and received a Quebec Cinema Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film at the 27th Quebec Cinema Awards.