Omar Amiralay Movies

Focusing on key Arab films produced in the last 20 years. Férid Boughedir traces the development of the film-makers' concern to produce more...

Interviews with Palestinians living in Lebanese refugee camps, some of it shot in Sabra and Shatila before the massacre.

A young man aspires to follow in his father's footsteps and live up to his legacy of resisting the Zionist occupation. He reflects on his father's...

A look at the Baath party's project to construct a system of dams.

The film was based on an interview with the late dramatist Saadallah Wannous a few months before he died of cancer. Wannous narrates his somber and...

A man recollects the conflict in the middle east through his personal memory. In this short documentary, Amiralay reflects on the first time he heard...

On 22nd May 1985, Jean-Paul Kaufman and Michel Seurat were kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad on the road to Beirut airport. Seurat died after 8 months...

The first documentary to present an unabashed critique of the impact of the Syrian government’s agricultural and land reforms, Everyday Life in...

Omar Amiralay examines how Yemen's revolution comes to fruition. There is a mix of hope that here perhaps a state will succeed in the socialist...

Through mordant social commentary and symbolic irony, Amiralay focuses this film on the chicken farming industry in the rural Syrian village of...

The construction of a dam on the Euphrates River is an example of a country’s economic development. Through grandly composed images, rhythmic...

Trained as an electrician, Nazih Shahbandar became fascinated with the technology behind film production and was one of the pioneers of cinema...

Fateh Moudarres (1922-1999) was a crucial personage in Syrian artistic and cultural life, a pioneer of contemporary painting, a literate and prolific...

In the year leading up to a 1985 international conference on gender equality in Beijing, filmmakers all over the world took part in a series of...

Hajj Ali makes a living as a taxi driver during the day, carrying citizens safely across the city, but he also runs a funeral home, waiting for...

The Man with the Golden Soles is a Syrian documentary film by the director Omar Amiralay. The film, released in 2000, is about the then Lebanese...

Directed by Omar Amiralay.