Person
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
Arwad
Director
Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
Writer
Nous irons à la plage, tu feras une sieste, je compterai les nuages
Director
Rituals Under a Scarlet Sky
Director
Le petit oiseau va sortir
Director
Chrysanthème
Production Assistant
Un Goût amer d’éternité
Director
Memory is a Dying Horse
Editor
How far this road take us?
Director of Photography
The Art of Speech
2016
Filmography
- 2024Rituals Under a Scarlet SkyDirector
- 2023irlande cahier bleuJean-Noël
- 2021Memory is a Dying HorseEditor
- 2021How far this road take us?Director of Photography
- 2016The Art of Speech
- 2013ArwadDirector
- 2009Snow Hides the Shade of Fig TreesWriter
- 2006Le petit oiseau va sortirDirector
- 2002Nous irons à la plage, tu feras une sieste, je compterai les nuagesDirector
- 2000ChrysanthèmeProduction Assistant
- —Un Goût amer d’éternitéDirector
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