Samer Najari
- Directing
- Moscow, USSR
Biography
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
Filmography
- Rituals Under a Scarlet Sky · Director, Editing
- irlande cahier bleu · Jean-Noël
- Memory is a Dying Horse · Editing, Cinematography
- How far this road take us? · Cinematography, Director
- The Art of Speech
- Arwad · Director, Writer
- Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees · Writer, Director
- Le petit oiseau va sortir · Director, Editing
- Nous irons à la plage, tu feras une sieste, je compterai les nuages · Director, Editing
- Chrysanthème · Production Assistant
- Un Goût amer d’éternité · Director