Director
Samer Najari
Moscow, USSR
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.
Often works with
Étienne Pilon
2 titles together
The Art of Speech, irlande cahier bleu
Ève Duranceau
2 titles together
The Art of Speech, irlande cahier bleu
Niels Schneider
2 titles together
Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees, Le petit oiseau va sortir
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Dominique Chila
2 titles together
The Art of Speech, Nous irons à la plage, tu feras une sieste, je compterai les nuages
Full filmography · 9
Rituals Under a Scarlet Sky
Director
2024
irlande cahier bleu
as Jean-Noël
2023
Memory is a Dying Horse
Director
2021
How far this road take us?
Director
2021
The Art of Speech
cast
2016
Arwad
Director and Writer
2013
Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
Writer and Director
2009
Le petit oiseau va sortir
Director and Writer
2006
Nous irons à la plage, tu feras une sieste, je compterai les nuages
Director
2002