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.
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02 January 1987
Focusing on key Arab films produced in the last 20 years. Férid Boughedir traces the development of the film-makers' concern to produce more socially aware cinema.
22 September 1997
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 of Israel.
25 April 1981
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 “customers” to be delivered daily.
05 May 1985
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 documentary films exploring changing relationships between men and women.
25 April 1978
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 project, with the knowledge of how it slipped off at home.
02 January 1977
Through mordant social commentary and symbolic irony, Amiralay focuses this film on the chicken farming industry in the rural Syrian village of Sadad.
25 April 1994
Trained as an electrician, Nazih Shahbandar became fascinated with the technology behind film production and was one of the pioneers of cinema production in the 1930s and 1940s.
25 April 1995
Fateh Moudarres (1922-1999) was a crucial personage in Syrian artistic and cultural life, a pioneer of contemporary painting, a literate and prolific novelist.
19 April 1996
On 22nd May 1985, Jean-Paul Kaufman and Michel Seurat were kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad on the road to Beirut airport.
02 October 1992
In the destroyed city of Quneitra is the grave of a resistance fighter for Palestine. His son, the director, tries to restore the dead man's history by mixing echoes of his mother's memory and his desire to give his father a more honorable death.
01 January 1997
The film was based on an interview with the late dramatist Saadallah Wannous a few months before he died of cancer.
01 October 1987
Interviews with Palestinians living in Lebanese refugee camps, some of it shot in Sabra and Shatila before the massacre.
02 January 1974
The first documentary to present an unabashed critique of the impact of the Syrian government’s agricultural and land reforms, Everyday Life in a Syrian Village delivers a powerful jab at the state’s conceit of redressing social and economic inequities.
01 January 1970
The construction of a dam on the Euphrates River is an example of a country’s economic development.
23 April 2003
A look at the Baath party's project to construct a system of dams.
16 September 2000
The Man with the Golden Soles is a Syrian documentary film by the director Omar Amiralay. The film, i
