Majdi El Omari is a Palestinian/Canadian filmmaker. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in filmmaking from the Cairo Institute of Cinema in Egypt and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Film Production from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. After working in the Middle East as an assistant director and production manager on various feature and documentary films, El Omari became a filmmaker, scriptwriter, producer, and editor. El Omari’s short films d’auteur have been selected in several international festivals. They tell stories that grow out of the existential situation of individuals living in a world that excludes them. Standstill was his debut feature film. El Omari lives between Haifa and Montreal. He is currently writing his next feature film, The Woman of the Bees, while teaching fiction filmmaking at Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem.
