Samer NAJARI (1976, Russia) was born in Moscow to a Syrian father and a Lebanese mother. He began his studies in architecture at the University of Damascus at the age of 18. Since immigrating to Canada in 1994, he has completed a BFA in Film Production at Concordia University. In 2001 he took part in a two-year residency at the Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France. Since his return to Canada, Samer Najari has directed two internationally acclaimed short films. Arwad is his first feature-length film and is co-directed by Dominique Chila.
KNOWN FOR
Arwad
2013
Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
2009
Chrysanthème
2000
Rituals Under a Scarlet Sky
2024
Le petit oiseau va sortir
2006
The Art of Speech
2016
irlande cahier bleu
2023
Memory is a Dying Horse
2021
Nous irons à la plage, tu feras une sieste, je compterai les nuages
2002
How far this road take us?
2021
Un Goût amer d’éternité
FILMOGRAPHY
All
Movies
TV
Acting
2
Directing
8
Writing
4
Producing
2
Camera
3
Editing
5
Sound
1