Feras Fayyad

Feras Fayyad was born on September 20th in a small village 60 km from Aleppo. This village was part of the Kingdom of Ebla, where cuneiform was discovered. The village had a unique language for the inhabitants of that region, in addition to a theater and musical pieces dating back to the third millennium BC. Fayyad grew up between his small village, surrounded by this life full of history and fantasy, and Aleppo and Damascus. Fayyad was raised by the women of his extended family. Feras Fayyad is the first Syrian director to be nominated for the Academy Award and by the Directors Guild of America. Fayyad is a two-time Oscar nominee and Emmy award-winning filmmaker. Fayyad is best known for his film, LAST MEN IN ALEPPO, which made him the first Syrian director to be nominated for an Academy award, and THE CAVE, which earned him his second nomination for the 2020 academy award. He is also a two-time winner of the Danish Academy Award (the Danish Oscar) and the first non-Danish director t