He is the writer and director of 120 short, experimental and documentary works and 12 feature-length films including The Extras and The Leopard.
I lived for one month in Prague for what a concert with bad seats would have cost in Paris.” He finished school and returned home in 1964, but in a year he went abroad again.
Continuing to write, he produced a screenplay, a political thriller about an escaped Iraqi official hiding among tourists in Lebanon.
The film Hunt Feast was shot in 2005 as a Syrian-British joint venture, but remains locked in a legal battle.
The following year the Dubai International Film Festival honored Maleh, along with American director Oliver Stone and Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, for his outstanding contribution to cinema.
After that film, Nabil Maleh created three more works that were sponsored by Syrian TV, A Surprise, Dreams, and Two Man and Woman.
For example, short documentary film Rocks (1970) was created in order to show hard conditions of quarry workers.
The most influential film was made in 1970, Men Under the Sun, where Nabil Maleh expressed struggle of Palestinian people.
In this film, Nabil Maleh raised the common issue of relationships between men and woman, that was very sharp in Syria.
Along with the harsh films, Nabil Maleh was working on a number of documentaries that were expressing different issues in Gulf countries.
The Holy Crystal (2008) is a short 26-minute documentary describing Syrian society consisting of Muslim and Christian people.
While the West was trying to portray Arab communities negatively, Nabil Maleh was trying to bring to light the truth over religion question.