Malas's second feature film, "al-Lail" ("The Night"), was realized in 1992. The autobiographical film was set in Quneitra in the years between 1936 and the Arab–Israeli War of 1948. It forms, along with "Ahlam al-Madina", the first and second parts of an unfinished trilogy project of Malas's. "Al-Lail" received international recognition and won first prize at the 1992 Carthage Film Festival. However, the film was banned in Syria and was only screened for the first time in 1996. Malas also collaborated with Omar Amiralay on the 1996 documentary film, "Moudaress", about the Syrian pioneer painter Fateh Moudarres. "Bab al-Makam" ("Passion"), released in 2005, was Malas's third feature film.