Ameer Fakher Eldin
Directing
Biography
Born in Kyiv in 1991, Ameer Fakher Eldin is a writer and director of Syrian and Lebanese origin from the occupied Golan Heights, now based in Germany. His debut feature The Stranger premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Edipo Re Award, and was later selected as Palestine’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards. The film went on to receive major recognition at the 43rd Cairo International Film Festival, winning the Shadi Abd El Salam Prize for Best Film and the Best Arab Film Award, and was further honored at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, where it won Best Cinematography and earned a nomination for Best Director. In 2025, his second feature Yunan premiered in the main competition of the Berlin International Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Golden Bear. The film continued its international trajectory with major awards, including Best Director and Best Actor at the Red Sea International Film Festival, the Arab Critics Award for European Films (Best Film), and the Golden Firebird awards for Best Actor and Best Actress at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. Most recently, Fakher Eldin served as a jury member at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival for Short Films in Competition.
Known For
Munir travels to a remote island to contemplate a drastic action. He is haunted by a cryptic parable passed down to him by his mother. In the silence of his isolated island sanctuary, he encounters the enigmatic Valeska and her rough-hewn but loyal son, Karl. Although few words are spoken, simple acts of kindness begin to overcome their mutual distrust. Munir’s heavy burden is gradually eased and his desire for life reignited
Yunan
In a small village in the occupied Golan Heights, the life of a desperate unlicensed doctor, who is going through an existential crisis, takes another unlucky turn when he encounters a man wounded in the war in Syria. Overturning all community expectations in times of war and national crisis, he ventures forth to meet his newly found destiny.
The Stranger
Third part of Ameer Fakher Eldin’s “Homeland” trilogy.
Nostalgia: A Tale in Its First Chapters
Short film deals with the relationship of a peasant couple from Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights, through their journey towards their cherry-trees orchard adjacent to the Syrian-Israeli border, torn apart in between two fires; echoes of the constant shelling in Syrian and decades-old Israeli forced occupation.