Samer Najari

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Place of Birth Moscow, USSR

Samer Najari

Biography

Samer NAJARI (1976, Russia) was born in Moscow to a Syrian father and a Lebanese mother. He began his studies in architecture at the Uni­versity of Damascus at the age of 18. Since immigrating to Canada in 1994, he has completed a BFA in Film Production at Concordia Uni­versity. In 2001 he took part in a two-year residency at the Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France. Since his return to Canada, Samer Najari has directed two internationally acclaimed short films. Arwad is his first fea­ture-length film and is co-directed by Dominique Chila.

Known For

Writer

Camera

2021
Memory is a Dying Horse

as Director of Photography

2021
How far this road take us?

as Director of Photography

Producer

2000
Chrysanthème

as Production Assistant

Sound

Actor

2023
irlande cahier bleu

as Jean-Noël