Abdellatif Abdelhamid

Directing

Abdellatif Abdelhamid

Born — Died

1954-01-05 — 2024-05-15

Place of birth

Syria

Known for

Directing

Credits

34 titles

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 hi…

Known for

Breeze of the Soul poster
NR

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

Me, You, Mother, and Father poster
NR

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

The Way poster
NR

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

Nights of The Jackal poster
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

September Rain poster
NR

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

Verbal Messages poster
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

Film credits

Behind the camera

Breeze of the Soul poster
NR

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

Breeze of the Soul poster
NR

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

Me, You, Mother, and Father poster
NR

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

Me, You, Mother, and Father poster
NR

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

The Way poster
NR

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

The Way poster
NR

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

Nights of The Jackal poster
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

Nights of The Jackal poster
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

September Rain poster
NR

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

September Rain poster
NR

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

Verbal Messages poster
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

Solo Performance poster
NR

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

Solo Performance poster
NR

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

Days of Boredom poster
NR

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

Days of Boredom poster
NR

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

Rising Rain poster
NR

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

Rising Rain poster
NR

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

The Lover poster
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

The Lover poster
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

Out of Coverage poster
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

Out of Coverage poster
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

Listener's Choice poster
NR

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

Listener's Choice poster
NR

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

Qamarayn wa Zaytouna poster
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

Qamarayn wa Zaytouna poster
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

Our Hands poster
NR

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

Our Hands poster
NR

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

The Last Breakfast poster
NR

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