Writing
Bilal Safadi
November 6, 1997 · age 28 Damascus, Syria
Bilal Safadi (1997) is a filmmaker from Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights, born in Damascus to a Syrian mother from Sweida and a father from the occupied Golan Heights. He graduated from the Film & Television Department at Tel Aviv University and completed a professional photography diploma at the Technion. His work draws on personal memory and lived experience through restrained narratives and a visually driven cinematic language. Drawn to emotional tension and quiet intensity, he creates films where atmosphere, silence, and gesture carry as much weight as plot, treating cinema as a space where emotion can exist without excess. For over fifteen years, Safadi has worked across dir…
