The Syrians are trying wherever they reach to prove their eligibility for a better life, and to survive their aspirations after having been robbed of many during 9 years of wars, bracing for unrelenting pains, in the hope that the countries of asylum will turn to a new beginning in which they determine through individual successes another form of the cultural identity of the Syrian person.
And because art plays a prominent role in translating this, some of the representatives did not give in to the difficulties they had to deal with in order to form a new career, including twins Ahmed and Mohamed Malas, born in Damascus in 1983.
The twins Muhammad and Ahmed Malas graduated from the Ornina Institute for Acting in Damascus after they were rejected at the Higher Institute for Performing Arts for 3 years in a row, and their talents adopted a number of artistic names known at the time, such as Amal Omran, Yasser Abdel Latif, Basem Kahar and others.
However, they did not get a real opportunity in dramas despite the abundance of production of the Syrian series at the time, and their presence was limited to participating in a number of plays, but they were able to launch the experience of "The Chamber Theater" in 2009 through the play "Milo Drama", and they were nominated to enter the encyclopedia. Guinness from the category of the smallest theater in the world.
After the outbreak of the Syrian revolution, they presented the play "The revolution tomorrow is postponed to yesterday", and because of their anti-Assad position, they fled from Syria at the end of 2011, after military security stormed their house in Damascus, then they headed to Lebanon, then to Egypt, to finally settle in France, where they were made available They have the opportunity to express their thoughts away from the scissors' watchman and whip the jailer, as well as their dependence on the Internet, which allowed them to publish a number of their works on YouTube and social media platforms, the most prominent of which was the series "Light Revolution".
Besides, the twins continued to work in the fields of cinema and theater, mostly with individual efforts, until recently they managed to enter the world of French drama by obtaining a role in the series "Rebecca", in which she will star in the French actress Anna Magega, which will be shown in 2021 on the channel " TF1 فيما, while the twins Malas will represent the role of Syrian refugees, a recent arrival in France in several scenes that tend to the police direction, in Arabic and French.
Years ago, the twins presented Malas “Refugees” in 2016, which is their first theatrical show in the French language, which was shown in a number of French cities and several countries, such as Belgium and Japan, and others. It also nominated to participate in the Canadian Quebec Festival, but the difficulty in obtaining the travel document It prevented it.
The twin Malas spoke to Al-Jazeera Net about the difficulties he faced in the field of acting, as the language had the major share of it, especially since the representation mainly depends - in addition to the feeling - on the movement of the body and the language of communication with the audience, so overcoming this obstacle needed "many hours Study and continuous work. "
The twins considered that success depends on self-ability, as it is "the outcome of a cumulative work" that they built nearly 7 years ago, that is, since the beginning of their presence in France, as well as the need to find a business agent to sponsor public relations and search for opportunities that suit them.
They add that the most important point that was emphasized in their work is that "it is necessary that the approval of the public be based on the artwork presented and not on its sympathy for the Syrian issue and the reality of asylum."
As for the differences that they found between the Syrian and French artistic circles - according to their opinion - the Syrian artistic community includes a large number of talents and creative energies, but the French remain "developed" in terms of professional craftsmanship, artistic work, and camera handling.
Also, "the exaggerated emotional drama situation in the Arab world may attract the Arab audience, but the factors of attracting the European audience are completely different. The actor must employ his feelings and control them within the context of the text without exaggerating their expression. Among the most important artists who followed this type of performance is Tim Hassan and Basil Khayat. And Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri. "
And the Syrian twin believes that "the existence of the law that protects artists from exploitation cases plays an important role in obtaining fair opportunities that give the artist his right to be able to express everything that is on his mind according to the different topics presented, but in Syria there are a large number of suspicious relationships that exploit the actor without the presence of Supporting technical institutions and unions, most of which have been thriving for corruption over recent decades, until the Syrian representative has often become part of its corruption.
The relentless effort made by the twin Malas during the past years culminated in a number of successes. Among the plays and films that they wrote, directed and starred in, they won a number of awards, including the movie “Searching for Abbas Kiarstami” which won the award for the best documentary film at the Hollywood International Online Festival , And the award-winning movie "Cherry Days" at the Bosnian Festival, in addition to other awards for their participation in other countries.
It is noteworthy that the last appearance of Malas twins on an Arab screen was the series "The Mirror", which was shown recently on the Syrian TV, and it was written by Ahmed Azzam and directed by Omar Baij.