Now based in Germany, the writer and director was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1991 as the son of Syrian parents from the Golan Heights. His debut feature film "The Stranger" premiered at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival where it won the Edipo Re Award. The film went on to become the official Palestinian entry for the Academy Awards and won Best Arab Film and the Shadi Abd El Salam Prize for Best Film in the International Critics’ Week Competition at the Cairo International Film Festival.

Source: 75. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)