Fauzi Khaidar
Directing
Biography
A Syrian film director. He studied at the Ivan Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television in Kyiv, in the workshop of Volodymyr Denysenko (class of 1980). After returning to Syria, he is believed to have died in a car accident in the late 1980s.
Known For
Sketches from the life of an unnamed Middle Eastern country. The film features poems by Palestinian poet Muin Bseiso (1930–1984).
Refugees
Set in Lebanon, the film follows a man who moves to the city in search of a better life—only to end up begging and living in shacks. One day, a photographer captures his image, and the picture ends up on the back cover of a magazine. Convinced that this will change his fate, he sets out to find the issue—believing everything depends on it.