Ameer Fakher Eldin

Ameer Fakher Eldin is a writer and director based in Hamburg. He was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1991 to parents from the Golan Heights.

Premiering at the 78th Venice International Film Festival, his debut feature THE STRANGER 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. The film was later nominated for Best Director and won the award for Best Cinematography at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

The Stranger
Drama
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Feature
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112
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In the occupied Golan Heights, a desperate unlicensed doctor subverts his village's expectations when he accidentally encounters a wounded soldier from the war in Syria.