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Filmmaker · Syria

Omar Amiralay

Died in 2011

Omar Amiralay was born in Damascus in 1944 and went to study cinema in Paris, where he entered the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in 1968. Back in Syria, he made in 1970 a first documentary on the great Euphrates dam, then filmed village life, the revolution and its disillusions, and also shot outside his country, from Yemen to Pakistan. In the nineties, he made portraits of forgotten figures of his country with Mohamed Malas and Oussama Mohammed. He died in Damascus in February 2011.

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