Abeer Dagher Esber is a Syrian writer and filmmaker based in Montreal. Her multidisciplinary practice bridges literature, cinema, and visual art, exploring how memory, exile, and architecture intertwine to shape personal and collective identity. A graduate of Damascus University in English Literature, she has authored several Arabic novels—including Freefall (سقوط حر) and Inheritors of Silence (ورثة الصمت)—and has worked in film and television production across Damascus, Beirut, and Montreal. Her current project, The Ninth Step, is a hybrid feature film combining fiction, documentary, and photo-roman aesthetics. Set between Damascus and Montreal, the film follows a woman who reconstructs fragments of her past—love, betrayal, and disappearance—through the architecture of both cities. Using still photography, voiceover, and layered sound design, The Ninth Step explores how urban space becomes an archive of trauma and desire, and how remembering itself becomes an act of survival. Blurring the lines between personal testimony and cinematic essay, Abeer Dagher Esber’s
work continues to investigate the fragile geographies of belonging, questioning how memory inhabits both the body and the city.