Ameer Fakher Eldin is a Germany-based writer and director, who was born in 1991 in Kyiv, Ukraine, to Syrian parents from the Golan Heights. His debut feature film, The Stranger, premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival - Venice Days, where it received the Edipo Re Award. The Stranger continued its success at the 43rd Cairo International Film Festival, winning the Best Arab Film award and the Shadi Abd El Salam Prize for Best Film in the International Critics’ Week Competition. It also garnered recognition at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, with a nomination for Best Director and a win for Best Cinematography. The film went on to represent Palestine as its official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards. Fakher Eldin’s second feature film, Yunan, premiered in the International Competition at the 2025 Berlinale.