Abdellatif Abdelhamid
{{Short description|Syrian film director (1954–2024)|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{sources|date=June 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Abdellatif Abdelhamid
| image = Abdellatif Abdelhamid.jpg
| birthname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1954|1|5|df=y}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|5|15|1954|1|5|df=y}}
| death_place =
| caption = Abdelhamid in 2017
| native_name = عبد اللطيف عبد الحميد
| native_name_lang = ar
| yearsactive = 1981–2024
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| awards = Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival - Critics Award
1993 Rasael Shafahiyyah
Muscat Film Festival - Best Director
2001 Qamaran wa Zaytouna
Singapore International Film Festival - Special Jury Prize
2007 Kharej al-Taghtiya
}}
Abdellatif Abdelhamid ({{langx|ar|عبد اللطيف عبد الحميد}}, 5 January 1954 – 15 May 2024) was a Syrian film director.{{cite book |last=Armes |first=Roy |year=2018 |title=Roots of the New Arab Film |publisher=Indiana University Press |pages=13, 16 |isbn=9780253031730}} His films have earned numerous awards, beginning with the Damascus International Film Festival, the Carthage Film Festival,{{cite journal |last=Marineau |first=Jean-Claude |year=1997 |title=Impressions d'Afrique — récit de voyage cinématographique |journal=Ciné-Bulles |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=32–35 |url=https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/cb/1997-v15-n4-cb1121220/33673ac/}} and Rabat International Film Festival.
Abdelhamid studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. He died on 15 May 2024, at the age of 70.{{cite news |title=وفاة المخرج السينمائي السوري عبد اللطيف عبد الحميد عن 70 عاماً |url=https://www.alquds.co.uk/وفاة-المخرج-السينمائي-السوري-عبد-اللط/ |access-date=17 May 2024 |publisher=Al-Quds Al-Arabi |date=16 May 2024}}
Filmography
- Umniyat (Wishes, 1983) (Documentary).
- Aydina (Our Hands, 1982) (Documentary).
- Layali Ibn Awa, (Nights of the Jackals, 1989).
- Rasael Shafahiyyah (Verbal Letters, 1991).
- Suoud al-Matar (The Rise of Rain, 1994).
- Nassim al-Roh (Soul Breeze, 1998).
- Qamaran wa Zaytouna (Two Moons and an Olive, 2001).
- Ma Yatlubuhu al-Musstamiun (At Our Listeners' Request, 2003).
- Kharej al-Taghtiya (Out of Coverage, 2007).
- September's Rain(2011)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0008174}}
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Category:Syrian documentary filmmakers