Ameer Fakher Eldin

Ameer Fakher Eldin (born 1991) is a Syrian film director currently based in Germany, ^[1]

He was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, to Syrian expatriate parents from the Golan Heights. ^[1] He directed a number of short films, including Between Two Deaths (Bayna Mawtayn) and Voicemail (Barid Sawti) in the 2010s.

His feature directorial debut, The Stranger (al-Gharīb), premiered in the Giornate degli Autori program at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. ^[2] The film, the first in a planned trilogy of films about people from the Arabic world living in exile, ^[3] was selected as the Palestinian submission for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards. ^[4]

Yunan , the second film in the trilogy, premiered in February 2025 at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. ^[5]

Filmography

• Between Two Deaths (Bayna Mawtayn) - 2015
• Voicemail (Barid Sawti) - 2017
• The Stranger (al-Gharīb) - 2021
• Yunan - 2025

References

1. Nick Vivarelli, "Ameer Fakher Eldin on Directing Hanna Schygulla in Berlin Competition Title ‘Yunan’: ‘You Feel That She’s Really True to Herself’". Variety , 16 February 2025.
2. Kaleem Aftab, "Review: The Stranger". Cineuropa , 10 September 2021.
3. Iain Akerman, "Ameer Fakher Eldin: ‘I was cut off from my culture. Now I’m making films with all the Arab world’". Arab News , 24 April 2025.
4. Jessica Kiang, "‘The Stranger’ Review: Glowering, Gorgeously Shot Parable of Occupation and Oppression in the Golan Heights". Variety , 29 November 2021.
5. Lee Marshall, "‘Yunan’ review: Enigmatic second film in Ameer Fakher Eldin’s ‘Homeland’ trilogy". Screen Daily , 19 February 2025.

External links

• Ameer Fakher Eldin at IMDb