The Cinema of Mohamad Malas
mec film is serving as agent to the films of renown Syrian film-maker Mohamad Malas. Together with Dunia Film in Damascus we make copies available or connect you to the distributor for your territory.
Mohamad Malas’ Œuvre, short and feature length, documentary and fiction, forms a deep chronicle of Syria in the 20th and early 21st century. We are happy to help organizing retrospectives of Mohamad Malas’ work.
In this English catalogue we also included texts in other languages, mainly French. The more extensive background information about Mohamad Malas' work is to be found in the German version of this website.

Aleppo - Magams for Pleasure
documentary
Mohamad Malas
52 min, Syria 1999
Arabic with Engl. or French ST

Dreams of the City
fiction
Mohamad Malas
130 min, Syria 1984
Arabic with Engl. ST

Ladder to Damascus
fiction
Mohamad Malas
97 min, Syria/LB/QAT 2013
Arabic with Engl. ST

Light and Shadows
documentary
Mohamad Malas, Omar Amiralay, Ossama Mohammed
42 min, Syria 1994
Arabic with French ST

Mudarres
documentary
Mohamad Malas, Omar Amiralay, Ossama Mohammed
48 min, Syria 1995
Arabic with Engl. ST

Over the Sand, Under the Sun
documentary
Mohamad Malas, Hala Alabdallah
32 min, Syria 1998
Arabic with Engl. or French ST

Passion (Bab al-Maqam)
fiction
Mohamad Malas
100 min, Syria 2004
Arabic with Engl. or French ST

Quneitra 74
short film
Mohamad Malas
20 min, Syria 1974
no dialogue

The Dream (al-Manam)
documentary
Mohamad Malas
45 min, Syria 1987
Arabic ST in several languages

The Memory (al-Zakira)
short film
Mohamad Malas
13 min, Syria 1975
Arabic with Engl. ST

The Night (al-Leil)
fiction
Mohamad Malas
116 min, Syria 1992
Arabic ST in several languages

director Mohamad Malas
biography