Ameer Fakher Eldin
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- Film director
- Screenwriter
Ameer Fakher Eldin | |
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 Eldin in 2026 | |
| Born | December 1991 (age 34) |
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| Years active | 2015 - present |
Ameer Fakher Eldin (born 1991) is a Syrian film director currently based in Germany.[1] He is known for his feature films The Stranger (2021) and Yunan (2025).
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]
