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Born in the United Arab Emirates to Syrian and Lebanese parents, Moe Najati makes films shaped by an innate fluency in multiple worlds and the tensions between.
His documentaries have taken him into Havana's underground Rumba scene (Uproar), the ritual of hospitality in rural Saudi Arabia (Hafawa), and the lives of people pursuing ambitions others told them were out of reach (It's Possible). His narrative films work in a similar register, quiet, precise, attentive to what people carry. Ensouled explored grief through science fiction.
That same eye carries into his commercial work. He has directed campaigns for Saudi Tourism, Alfa Romeo, Vice, and Red Sea Global, and collaborated with Apple, Ferrari, McLaren and Coca-Cola earlier in his career, work recognised at the Effies, the Webbys, and Dubai Lynx.
His films have screened at BAFTA and Academy Award qualifying festivals including Sheffield DocFest, alongside genre festivals including FilmQuest and Panic Fest. He won Best Director at LA International Short Film Festival, Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy at D.C. Shorts, and Platinum at Worldfest-Houston.
He is currently developing Lives in Absence, a psychological drama about identity in an age of artificial presence.