Writing
Bilal Safadi
Born
1997-11-06 (28)
Place of birth
Damascus, Syria
Known for
Writing
Credits
2 titles
Bilal Safadi (1997) is a filmmaker from Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights, born in Damascus to a Syrian mother from Sweida and a father from the occupied Golan Heights. He graduated from the Film & Television Department at Tel Aviv University and completed a professional photography diploma at the Technion. His work draws on personal memory and lived experience through restrained narratives and a visually driven cinematic language. Drawn to emotional tension and quiet intensity, he creates films where atmosphere, silence, and gesture carry as much weight as plot, treating cinema as a space where emotion can exist without excess. For over fifteen years, Safadi has worked across dir…
Known for
Behind the camera
NRFrom the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Laila sets out to cross the border into Syria to attend her father’s funeral. At one of the world’s most tightly controlled frontiers, grief collides with a system that traps her and her family in an endless state of waiting.
67 Hours
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NRFrom the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Laila sets out to cross the border into Syria to attend her father’s funeral. At one of the world’s most tightly controlled frontiers, grief collides with a system that traps her and her family in an endless state of waiting.
67 Hours
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