Berlin-based helmer Ameer Fakher Eldin, who was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, to Syrian parents from the Golan Heights, is in the Berlinale competition with "Yunan," the story of a prominent Arab author ...

It was a deliberate move by the film’s young writer-director Ameer Fakher Eldin. “I wanted to focus on his psychological journey to make it even more universal,” he tells The National.