About Samer Najari
Born 1976. Samer Najari is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and actor.
Samer Najari (born 1976) is a Canadian filmmaker, who works predominantly but not exclusively with his wife Dominique Chila. They are most noted for their 2013 feature film Arwad.
Born in Moscow to a Syrian father and a Lebanese mother, Najari moved to Canada in 1994. and was a Jutra Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 12th Jutra Awards.
Rituals Under a Scarlet Sky (Rituels sous un ciel écarlate), his 2024 short film directed with Chila, was a finalist for the short films category at the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois, and received a Quebec Cinema Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film at the 27th Quebec Cinema Awards.
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film director
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Samer Najari was born in 1976 in Moscow.
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Samer Najari is a film director, screenwriter and actor.
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Samer Najari is Canadian.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Samer Najari. https://biography.guide/samer-najari/
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