Hatem Ali

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Hatem Ali

Born June 2, 1962 · Syria

Died December 29, 2020 · aged 58

Hatem Ali (حاتم علي) was a Syrian actor and director. He studied philosophy and then acting at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus, from which he graduated in 1986. He worked as an actor in many series, then turned to directing in the mid-nineties. Before that, he wrote the script for the film بهمو آخر الليل and then directed it. The film won the gold at the Cairo Radio and Televisio…

Known For

Peace by ChocolatePeace by Chocolate · 2021
Peace by Chocolate
★ 7.12021
MovieComedyDrama
After the bombing of his father's chocolate factory, a young Syrian refugee struggles to settle into his new Canadian small-town life, caught between following his dream and preserving his family's chocolate-making legacy. Based on the incredible true story.
SilinaSilina · 2009
Silina
★ 5.82009
MovieDramaMusic
مسرحية استعراضية غنائية مأخوذة عن قصه هالة والملك لفيروز. تحتفل مدينة سيلينا بعيد سنوي حيث يلبس الناس أقنعة, ويمثلون أدواراً في سهرة العيد.
AwakeningAwakening · 2018
Awakening
2018
MovieDrama
During the ongoing Syrian war, Hala leaves her house after her husband sells her wedding gown in order to secure the cost of his marriage to another woman. Upon her arrival to the house of her friend Talla, the police come and drag Talla’s husband to military service, so the two women sit alone waiting for the return of what they have lost.
ComaComa · 2016
Coma
2016
MovieDrama
During the Syrian war, an elderly man falls into a long coma, caught between life and death. Meanwhile, his young son undergoes an exhausting struggle between his thoughts and emotions, torn between his obligations toward his father and his desire to step into the life he yearns for.
The Long NightThe Long Night · 2009
The Long Night
2009
MovieMysteryDrama
Four political activists friends are arrested by the repressive regime in Syria in the 1970s and spend twenty years in detention, three of them are released, and the fourth remains. The three friends are shocked by the huge changes they found in society, while showing the hardships their fourth comrade faces in prison.
OmarOmar · 2012
Omar
★ 9.02012
SeriesDramaWar & Politics
A historical saga about the second caliph and Commander of the Faithful Omar Bin Al-Khattab and his pivotal role in the Islamic State.
The Falcon of QuraishThe Falcon of Quraish · 2002
The Falcon of Quraish
★ 9.52002
SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama
When the Abbasids overthrow the Umayyad Caliphate in Damascus, slaughtering nearly the entire dynasty, one young prince escapes — Abd al-Rahman. Hunted across deserts and seas, he eventually reaches the fringes of the Muslim world and, through sheer will and political genius, founds a new Umayyad emirate in Andalusia. Written by Walid Seif and directed by Hatem Ali, this is the first chapter of their celebrated Andalusian trilogy — epic, human and historically meticulous.
Like It Was YesterdayLike It Was Yesterday · 2018
Like It Was Yesterday
★ 6.52018
SeriesDrama
A family lives in a tragedy that continues for years after their son (Ali) was kidnapped during a holiday they took on the beach, and after many years, (Ali) appears again in their lives, but this sudden appearance raises many questions, chief among them: Is this young man (Ali) ) Really?

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Al JawarehAl Jawareh
Al Jawareh
SeriesDramaAction & Adventure
This series tells the story of the sheikh of an Arab tribe named Ibn al-Wahaj, who is one of the noblest and most honorable Arabs, and has three sons called al-Bashiq and Osama and the youngest Aqab. There was in the tribe of Ibn al-Wahhaj there is a man who hated him and his sons, so he submitted to the sage of the tribe and the author of the narrations in it (Ibn al-Rumiyya), and he asked him to test the ability of the sons of Ibn al-Wahhaj to live outside their father's tribe, so the idea entered his head and he decided to send his three sons to unknown destinations, and said to them: I want you to be the raptors that live in a land that is not its land. So they set off, and Osama went to the north, Al-Bashiq to the south, and Aqab went to the east

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