Personal Info
Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
BirthdayDecember 31, 1943 (81 years old)
Place of BirthDamascus, Syria
Omar Amiralay
Biography
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.
Known For
Everyday Life in a Syrian Village
There Are Many Things One Can Talk About...
There Are Many Things One Can Talk About...
A Plate of Sardines
A Plate of Sardines
A Flood in Baath Country
Film-Essay on the Euphrates Dam
Film-Essay on the Euphrates Dam
On a Day of Ordinary Violence, My Friend Michel Seurat...
Everyday Life in a Syrian Village
The Man with the Golden Soles
Light and Shadows, the Last of the Pioneers: Nazih Shahbandar
Moudarres
The Dream
Love Aborted
The Night