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Samer Najari

Birthplace:
Moscow, USSR

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Film Production

Director:
2002  Nous irons à la plage, tu feras une sieste, je compterai les nuages
2006  Le petit oiseau va sortir
2009  Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
2013  Arwad
2021  How far this road take us?
2021  Memory is a Dying Horse
2024  Rituals Under a Scarlet Sky
????  Un Goût amer d’éternité

Director of Photography:
2002  Nous irons à la plage, tu feras une sieste, je compterai les nuages
2006  Le petit oiseau va sortir
2009  Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
2013  Arwad
2021  How far this road take us?
2021  Memory is a Dying Horse
2024  Rituals Under a Scarlet Sky
????  Un Goût amer d’éternité

Editor:
2002  Nous irons à la plage, tu feras une sieste, je compterai les nuages
2006  Le petit oiseau va sortir
2009  Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
2013  Arwad
2021  How far this road take us?
2021  Memory is a Dying Horse
2024  Rituals Under a Scarlet Sky
????  Un Goût amer d’éternité

Production Assistant:
2000  Chrysanthème
2002  Nous irons à la plage, tu feras une sieste, je compterai les nuages
2006  Le petit oiseau va sortir
2009  Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
2013  Arwad
2021  How far this road take us?
2021  Memory is a Dying Horse
2024  Rituals Under a Scarlet Sky
????  Un Goût amer d’éternité

Sound:
2000  Chrysanthème
2002  Nous irons à la plage, tu feras une sieste, je compterai les nuages
2006  Le petit oiseau va sortir
2009  Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
2013  Arwad
2021  How far this road take us?
2021  Memory is a Dying Horse
2024  Rituals Under a Scarlet Sky
????  Un Goût amer d’éternité

Writer:
2000  Chrysanthème
2002  Nous irons à la plage, tu feras une sieste, je compterai les nuages
2006  Le petit oiseau va sortir
2009  Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
2013  Arwad
2021  How far this road take us?
2021  Memory is a Dying Horse
2024  Rituals Under a Scarlet Sky
????  Un Goût amer d’éternité

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