Writing

Bilal Safadi

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 directing, cinematography, editing, art direction, and sound, contributing to numerous student films and documentary projects, including works later broadcast on Al Jazeera.…