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Omar Amiralay is a Director, Writer and Executive producer Syrien born on 1 january 1944 at Damascus (Syrie)

Omar Amiralay

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Nationality Syrie
Birth 1 january 1944 at Damascus (Syrie)
Death 5 february 2011 (at 67 years) at Damascus (Syrie)

Omar Amiralay (Arabic: عمر أميرالاي‎) (1944 — 5 February 2011) was a Syrian documentary film director and prominent civil society activist. He is noted for the strong political criticism in his films and played a prominent role in the events of the Damascus Spring of 2000.

Biography

Refusant la fiction, Omar Amiralay a tourné de nombreux documentaires, souvent critiques à l'égard de la réalité de son pays et du Proche-Orient.

Usually with

Mohamed Malas
Mohamed Malas
(3 films)
Abdellatif Abdelhamid
Abdellatif Abdelhamid
(1 films)
Philippe Cosson
Philippe Cosson
(1 films)
Usama Muhammad
Usama Muhammad
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Omar Amiralay (8 films)

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Director

A Plate of Sardines
A Plate of Sardines (1997)
, 17minutes
Directed by Omar Amiralay
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Mohamed Malas
Rating70% 3.5391553.5391553.5391553.5391553.539155
Un homme se souvient du conflit au Moyen-Orient à travers sa mémoire personnelle. Dans ce court documentaire, Amiralay se penche sur la première fois qu'il a entendu parler d'Israël. A travers des conversations enregistrées avec le cinéaste Mohamed Malas, Amiralay et Malas partagent leurs propres histoires et expériences sur Israël et l'occupation israélienne.

Scriptwriter

A Plate of Sardines
A Plate of Sardines (1997)
, 17minutes
Directed by Omar Amiralay
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Mohamed Malas
Roles Writer
Rating70% 3.5391553.5391553.5391553.5391553.539155
Un homme se souvient du conflit au Moyen-Orient à travers sa mémoire personnelle. Dans ce court documentaire, Amiralay se penche sur la première fois qu'il a entendu parler d'Israël. A travers des conversations enregistrées avec le cinéaste Mohamed Malas, Amiralay et Malas partagent leurs propres histoires et expériences sur Israël et l'occupation israélienne.

Producer

The Night
The Night (1992)
, 1h56
Directed by Mohamed Malas
Genres Drama
Roles Executive Producer
Rating71% 3.551743.551743.551743.551743.55174
The Dream
The Dream (1987)
, 45minutes
Directed by Mohamed Malas
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about immigration, Films about religion, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Roles Production Manager
Rating62% 3.123943.123943.123943.123943.12394
The film was composed of several interviews with different Palestinian refugees including children, women, old people, and militants from the refugee camps in Lebanon. In the interviews Malas questions his subjects about their dreams at night. Through their answers, the film attempts to reveal the underlying subconsciousness of the Palestinian refugee. The dreams always converge on Palestine; a woman recounts her dreams about winning the war; a fedai of bombardment and martyrdom; and one man tells of a dream where he meets and is ignored by Gulf emirs. According to Rebecca Porteous, the film constructs "the psychology of dispossession; the daily reality behind those slogans of nationhood, freedom, land and resistance, for people who have lost all of these things, except their recourse to the last.