Unlocking Doors of Cinema: Muhammad Malas

This documentary explores the fifty years of artistic contribution of Syrian auteur Mohamed Malas, and example of a people’s intellectual, who was exiled from his hometown, but whose films provoke contemplating loss, memory, and home. Applying a chronological narrative of Muhammad Malas’s cinematic journey, features personal interviews with him, archival footage of his films, Nezar Andary tries to analyse Malas as a human and a director. He manages to successfully approach the formation of a leading filmmaker on both the intellectual and creative levels. (Cairo International Film Festival)