Biography
Ameer Fakher El-Din is a writer and director based in Hamburg. He was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1991 to Syrian parents from the occupied Golan Heights.
Premiering at the 78th Venice International Film Festival, his debut feature THE STRANGER, which is now available on Netflix, won the Edipo Re Award in 2021 before enjoying great acclaim on the global festival circuit, winning several prizes, including the Best Arab Film Award at the 2021 edition of the Cairo International Film Festival and Shadi Abdel-Salam Prize for Best Film in the International Critics Week Competition of the same festival.
THE STRANGER is the first installment of a trilogy called HOME. The second installment, YUNAN, premiered at the 75th Berlinale, and the third, NOSTALGIA: A TALE IN ITS FIRST CHAPTERS, is in pre-production and slated to be a joint international production between Syria, Palestine, Germany, and Italy that was awarded the Red Sea Fund for Development.
Fakher Eldin’s latest film YUNAN features a star-studded pan-Arab cast alongside several international actors; including acclaimed Lebanese director George Khabbaz, Hanna Schygulla, Palestinian actor Ali Suleiman —known for his roles in 200 METERS and the Oscar-nominated Palestinian film PARADISE NOW— renowned GAME OF THRONES stars Sibel Kekilli and Thomas Wlaschiha, as well as Lebanese actress Nidal El Ashkar. The film is a co-production involving Palestine, Germany, Canada, Italy, Qatar, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.
The film world premiered at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, garnering a Golden Bear nomination, and notably being the only Arab film listed in the festival’s Main Competition. The film has since screened at the Hong Kong International Film Festival where Leading actors George Khabbaz and Hanna Schygula won Best Actor and Best Actress respectively, as well as the FESCAAAL African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival.
