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name: "Christopher Aoun"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/christopher-aoun"
fi1m_id: "christopher-aoun"
imdb_id: "nm5561347"
tmdb_id: 1915588
wikidata_id: "Q57199589"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "1 January 1989"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:16:36.666205+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Christopher Aoun

## Identity

Christopher Aoun

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/christopher-aoun
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** christopher-aoun
- **IMDb ID:** nm5561347
- **TMDB ID:** 1915588
- **Wikidata ID:** Q57199589
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Aoun, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57199589, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5561347/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1915588

Cinematographer. Born 1 January 1989 in Beirut, Lebanon.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 1 January 1989, Beirut, Lebanon
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Aoun, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57199589, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5561347/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1915588

## Biography

Christopher Aoun is a Lebanese-German cinematographer. Born on 15 December 1989 in Beirut, he studied cinematography at the Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth and the University of Television and Film Munich.

He is best known for his work as director of photography on Nadine Labaki's *Capernaum* (2018), which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Aoun won the German Cinematography Award in 2019 for the film. His other credits include *The Man Who Sold His Skin* (2021), *All That's Left of You* (2025), and the Netflix series *The Empress*.

Prior to *Capernaum*, he photographed Philippe Aractingi's *Listen* (2017) and the documentary *Kalveli: Shadows of the Desert* (2018). He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Capernaum* (2018), Fi1m 80, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/capernaum.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Original Sin* (2025), Director of Photography
- *All That's Left of You* (2025), Director of Photography
- *Your Brothers* (2024), Cinematography
- *The Promised Land* (2023), Second Unit Director of Photography
- *Copilot* (2021), Director of Photography
- *The Man Who Sold His Skin* (2021), Director of Photography
- *Subspace* (2020), Director of Photography
- *Property* (2019), Director of Photography
- *Kalveli: Shadows of the Desert* (2019), Director of Photography
- *Capernaum* (2018), Director of Photography — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/capernaum.md)
- *In White* (2017), Director of Photography
- *Listen* (2017), Director of Photography
- *Conversation with Erich Haas* (2014), Cinematography
- *Martha und Karl* (2012), Director of Photography
- *Mr. Nawashi*, Director of Photography

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