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directors Omar Amiralay & Ossama Mohammed

Omar Amiralay
Born in Damascus in 1944 to the son of a high-ranking officer in the Ottoman military and a Lebanese mother, Omar Amiralay headed to Paris in 1965 to pursue studies in drama and theater but gradually began to lean towards cinema.

Amiralay was also a driving force in the establishment of the Arab Film Institute (2005-2008), a novel venture in the Arab world.
Omar Amiralay died in in February 2011. He was a close friend and collaborator with fellow Syrian filmmakers, including Mohammad Malas and Ossama Mohammed.

filmography
Film Essay on the Euphrates Dam (1970)
Everyday Life in a Syrian Village (1974)
The Chickens (1977)
On a Revolution (1978)
The Misfortunes of Some... (1981)
A Scent of Paradise (1982)
Love Aborted (1983)
Video on Sand (1984)
The Intimate Enemy (1986)
The Lady of Shibam (1988)
East of Eden (1988)
For the Attention of Madame the Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (1990)
Light and Shadows (1994)
The Master (1995)
On a Day of Ordinary Violence, My Friend Michel Seurat... (1996)
There Are So Many Things Still to Say (1997)
A Plate of Sardines (1997)
The Man with the Golden Soles (1999)
A Flood in Baath Country (2003)

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Ossama Mohammed
Born in Latakia in Syria in 1954, he graduated from the All-union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow in 1979. His feature film debut Nujum aL-Nahar screened at Cannes in 1988 and won the Golden Palm at the Mostra de Valencia film festival but has never been shown in Syria because of its direct criticism of the regime. He was not able to make his second feature Sunduq al Dunia until 2002. This film also premiered at Cannes.

filmography
Khutwa Khutwa (1978)
Stars in Broad Daylight (1988)
Moudarres (1995)
The Box of Life (2002)
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (2014)

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