Abdellatif Abdul-Hamid
Born in Lattakiah, in 1954, Abdellatif Abdul-Hamid worked as an actor, musician and singer in the theaters of his hometown prior to pursuing studies in film directing. Two years after enrolling in the University of Lattakiah to study Arabic literature, he earned a scholarship to study at the VGIK (Moscow Film Institute), where he graduated in 1981.
He has directed two short documentaries for the General Organization for Cinema in Syria, Wishes, (1983) and Our Hands (1983). He worked as an assistant director to Mohammad Malas on Dreams of the City (1983). He also played the lead role in Oussama Mohammad's Stars in Broad Day (1988). Among Syrian filmmakers his work has garnered the widest popular appeal in Syria and the Arab world. He is fascinated by the subject of love in its various forms. One can see it already in his feature debut, The Nights of the Jackal (1998), as well as in his second film Oral Messages (1993), his take on the story of Cyrano de Bergerac. A complicated love affair against the background of contemporary Damascus is his focus in Out of Coverage (2007).
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