Samer Najari
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Samer Najari (born 1976) is a Canadian filmmaker, who works predominantly but not exclusively with his wife Dominique Chila.[1] They are most noted for their 2013 feature film Arwad.[2]
Born in Moscow to a Syrian father and a Lebanese mother, Najari moved to Canada in 1994.[1] His 2009 short film Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees (La neige cache l'ombre des figuiers), won the AQCC award for Best Short Film (Fiction) at the 2010 Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois,[3] and was a Jutra Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 12th Jutra Awards.[4]
Rituals Under a Scarlet Sky (Rituels sous un ciel écarlate), his 2024 short film directed with Chila, was a finalist for the short films category at the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois,[5] and received a Quebec Cinema Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film at the 27th Quebec Cinema Awards.[6]
