Ameer Fakher Eldin

Directing

Ameer Fakher Eldin

Born

1991-04-12 (35)

Known for

Directing

Credits

6 titles

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, …

Known for

Behind the camera

Yunan poster
NR

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

2025

Yunan poster
NR

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

2025

The Stranger poster
5.8

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

2021

The Stranger poster
5.8

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

2021

Between Two Deaths poster
NR

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.

Between Two Deaths

2015

No artwork available
NR

Third part of Ameer Fakher Eldin’s “Homeland” trilogy.

Nostalgia: A Tale in Its First Chapters

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