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Abdellatif Abdelhamid

Abdellatif Abdelhamid

Directing

Biography

Syrian director, born on January 5, 1954, is the Syrian cinematographer, and the landmark in the history of Syrian cinema. He is considered one of the most important directors in the seventh art field in the entire Arab world. He worked as an actor, musician, director and singer in the student theater and the theater of the cultural center. He studied Arabic literature at Tishreen University before being dispatched to Moscow. In 1981 he graduated from the High Institute of Cinema in Moscow. At the Film Institute, he performed 3 works "Goodnight, Old Class, Upside Down." Awards - "Old Lesson" won 6 awards.    - He won five awards for his movie "Nights of Jackal".     Won four awards for his film "Oral Letters".   - He won five awards for his film "The Rise of the Rain."   Received seven awards for the movie "The Breeze of the Soul".   He won three awards for his film "Qumran and Zaitouna".   - He won the gold medal award for the movie "What listeners demand" at the Rabat International Festival.   - He won the Best Asian Film Award at the Delhi Festival for his movie "What listeners ask for". Among his cinematic works (writer and director): “Oral Letters” - “The Rise of Rain” - “The Breeze of the Spirit” - “Qumran and Zaitouna” - “What the listeners ask for”.

Known For

The Last Breakfast
N/A

it’s a love story of married couple who were separated by death ,where the wife saw it coming at breakfast due to the frequent bombing on that day.

The Last Breakfast

2021
September Rain
N/A

The film tells of a poor citizen whose wife died and has five children, three love to sing and play and work in parties, one learns and loves a rich girl, and the other works with his father in selling watermelon, they are surprised by the relationship of their father to the maid who works with them, things go wrong and some object

September Rain

2010
Rising Rain
N/A

Sabah is a creative writer who goes through the complexities of life in a city that pushes its children from its center to its outskirts where expatriates reside. He suffers from financial hardships, while a love story grows between a boy and a girl who meet at night in the rain.

Rising Rain

1995
Amina
N/A

The story revolves around a woman who faces a lot of troubles and ambitions, and she lives in chaos, emotional and great life due to the circumstances of her sick son and her daughter who becomes the focus of attention of one of the influential people, so that the struggle begins in her life between the desire to preserve the life of her son, and the happiness of her daughter threatened, through her simple human relations with surrounding characters With her in her village.

Amina

2018
Out of Coverage
6.0

When Zuhair is forcibly absent for ten years, Amer dedicates himself to the wife of his absentee friend and his daughter. But things take a surprising turn when Zuhair returns after a long absence, as Amer begins to wonder about his own fate.

Out of Coverage

2008
Breeze of the Soul
N/A

A love story grows between a young man and a girl, there is a second person who loves the girl, and for her he tries to hang himself, so the lovers decide to sacrifice love and happiness to save a human soul, the lover is a simple young man, while the girl is a loving female, mixed in the depths of many worlds of childhood and innocence And intelligence, the girl marries the man she does not like, and by this she has lifted the gallows from his neck, in order to wrap her around her neck.

Breeze of the Soul

1997
The Lover
10.0

The autobiography of a film director who grows up in a small town then leaves for the city to finish his studies. When he became famous, he decided to make a film about his upbringing in the village based on his childhood memories.

The Lover

2012
Nights of The Jackal
6.0

Syria, 1967, rumors of war. Abu Kamel, a peasant who farms tomatoes near Latakia, bullies his family. One by one, each rebels against him or finds a route to break away.

Nights of The Jackal

1988
Qamarayn wa Zaytouna
9.0

The film's story revolves around a child who has psychological problems (Adel), and the head of the family is disabled due to a severe injury he suffered in the Palestine War, so he became a seat and was unable even to perform his marital duties so that the wife continues to suffer from a double disadvantage, as she began bearing the burdens of raising her children, and assumed responsibility for the home The entire role of the father is also practiced, and there are uncommon forms of cruelty coated with a kind of maternal love that she cannot curb while shaving her son who sucks his thumb, and plucking his hair, and her daughter (Princess) is also punished by shaving her head because she colluded with her brother.

Qamarayn wa Zaytouna

2002
Days of Boredom
N/A

The film tells the story of four children living with their father on the Golan front in 1958, who live in constant weariness because of the war. After the military escalation on the front occurs, they are forced to return to their mother in her village.

Days of Boredom

2008
Once Again
N/A

The film revolves around the subject of Syrian-Lebanese relations, starting from the period of the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and up until after the Syrian army left, through a love story between a Lebanese woman who came to Damascus to work as a bank manager, and a young Syrian man who works as a communications manager there. The story between them begins with tension, but it quickly turns into a love story, although the tension between them does not completely disappear with falling in love, as the two characters are still living in the past.

Once Again

2009
Salma
N/A

Salma searches for her husband’s death certificate so that she can continue her life. This search journey leads her to collide with some problems, financial and otherwise, and she suddenly finds herself in a situation imposed on her by her self-esteem, so she runs for the “People’s Assembly.”

Salma

2024
Me, You, Mother, and Father
N/A

Story revolves around a love story between a soldier at a checkpoint and a girl living next door, who face political differences and the problems of war. The events and personalities of the film also monitor stories from the contemporary Syrian scene that bear the smallest details, as the film deals with the daily and daily reality in Syria.

Me, You, Mother, and Father

2016
Listener's Choice
N/A

The film tells of a love story linking the heart of Aziza and Jamal, and links a friendship between Jamal and Selim, the disabled young man who escapes from the persecution of his family to him and who is embraced by Abu Jamal, as if he was one of his sons

Listener's Choice

2003
Solo Performance
N/A

In the film, a family of moral, noble, musician, and singer friends save lives, trying to save them in the literal and metaphorical sense.

Solo Performance

2018
Stars in Broad Daylight
6.9

In his debut feature film, director Muhammad explores the inexorable dissolution of a family, ironically during the planning of a wedding, the kind of ritual that ought to bond family members together in shared joy. The film exposes the divisive dynamics of patriarchal oppression, and the terrible connections between familial and sociopolitical violence.

Stars in Broad Daylight

1988
Verbal Messages
6.0

The story is about a young man with a relatively large nose, who is ashamed of his enlargement relative to the normal size of the nose, so he tries hard to get rid of this defect in different ways. In other words, "a messenger of love" to send him oral oral messages, the reason that paves the way for the birth of a love story between the girl and the middle man resulting in many problems between the people of the village.

Verbal Messages

1991
The Way
N/A

This is the story of a student who was expelled from his school. From then, his grandfather will teach him using a panoply of rather unusual methods.

The Way

2022
Our Hands
N/A

Hands, and the things hands do handsomely edited to some hand-conducted orchestral music. A short film by Syrian film director Abdellatif Abdul Hamid, produced after his return to Syira from the Soviet Union.

Our Hands

1982