Maisa Abd Elhadi

“The Angel”, Mısır Devlet Başkanı Nasır'ın damadı ve onun halefi Enver Sedat'ın hem özel danışmanı hem de sırdaşı olan ve aynı zamanda İsrail gizli servisinin 20. yüzyıldaki en değerli muhbirlerinden biri sayılan Eşref Mervan’ın (Marwan Kenzari) gerçek öyküsünü anlatıyor.

On a tramway that connects several of Jerusalem's neighborhoods from East to West, a mosaic of people from different religious and ethnic backgrounds are brought together.

In Gaza, 60-year-old fisherman Issa has been secretly in love with Siham, a widow who works at the market. One day, the discovery of an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing net changes his life. With newfound confidence, he decides to approach Siham but problems arise when authorities become involved with this mysterious and potent treasure.

Elia Suleiman’ın bu yeni filmi, kendi ailesinin 1948′lerden günümüze uzanan hikâyesini ele aldığı, yarı özyaşamöyküsel, harika bir komedi. Film, Suleiman’ın babasının, bir direniş savaşçısı olduğu dönemden itibaren tuttuğu günlüklerinden ve annesinin sürgündeki aile üyelerine yazdığı mektuplardan esinleniyor. Geride Kalan yönetmenin tabiriyle, “topraklarında kalan ve İsrailli Araplar’ diye etiketlenen, kendi vatanlarında bir azınlık gibi yaşayan Filistinlilerin günlük yaşamını gözler önüne sermeye çalışıyor.

10 yaşındaki Muhammed Assaf ve ondan iki yaş büyük ablası Nour ortak müzik tutuklularıyla birbirine bağlıdır. Bütün çabaları müzik enstrümanları almak olan bu iki kardeş ve arkadaşları Ashraf ile Omar’la birlikte bir müzik grubu kurar. Kardeşi Muhammed’in yeteneğini gören Nour daha büyük hayaller kurmaları ve yorulmadan çalışmaları için grubu motive eder. Gazze’nin sert hayat koşullarında Nour, erkek kardeşini karşılaşacağı her türlü zorluktan korur ve ona bahşedilen yeteneğini paylaşması için en büyük destekçisi olur.

A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heaving with female clients: a bride-to-be, a pregnant woman, a bitter divorcée, a devout woman and a pill-popping addict. But their day of leisure is disrupted when gunfire breaks out across the street. A gangland family has stolen the lion from Gaza’s only zoo, and Hamas has decided it’s time to settle old scores. Stuck in the salon, with the prospect of death drawing ever nearer, the women start to unravel. How will the day end? Will they lose their lives for the sake of “liberating the lion”?

Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise - until the soldier and the show's financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle.

Medeniyetin tarihe karıştığı yakın bir gelecekte, yabancıların yerleşkelerine girmesini gönülsüzce kabul eden bir adam ailesini tehlikeye atar.

Based on real events, Huda’s Salon is a heart-racing, entertaining feminist thriller, where two women fight for their freedom. Reem, a young mother who is married to a jealous man, goes to Huda’s salon in Bethlehem for a haircut and an attentive ear. However, this ordinary visit turns sour after Huda puts Reem in a shameful situation, blackmails her to work for the secret service of the occupiers and betrays her people.

In a claustrophobic neighborhood where gossip and violence police people's behavior, the lives of residents intertwine and collide as some try to maintain social norms while others try to break them.

Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard Courant was invited by the Dubai International Film Festival, in the United Arab Emirates. It was an opportunity for him to film many "Cinematons" of personalities from the Arab world and to continue his "Film Notebooks" from which he brought back 7 episodes.

Set against a backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian rapper Kareem and his singer girlfriend Manar struggle, love and make music in their crime-ridden ghetto and Tel Aviv's hip-hop club scene.

In an underground orchard in Bethlehem, decades after an otherworldly ecodisaster, two scientists discuss exile, loss and nostalgia.

Film, Tel Aviv’de yaşayan üç Filistinli kadın Leyla, Selma ve Nur’un en görünür ikilemlerine odaklanıyor: Geleneksellik ve çağdaşlık, maneviyat ve dünyevilik... Tel Aviv sokaklarında her iki çelişkiyi de en duru haliyle bulmak mümkün. Farklı yaşam tarzlarının soyut ve sert çatışmasını, hayattan alınan zevkin farklı tanımlarını ve farklı adanmışlıklarını üç genç kadın üzerinden, mizahi bir bakış açısıyla perdeye aktarıyor. Aynı arka planı, umudu ve tereddüdü paylaşan üç genç kadının eğlenceli öyküsü bu.

Two students in the West Bank are forced to return home to Gaza, where their love defies tradition. To reach his lover, Qays graffitis poetry across town. A modern retelling of the famous ancient Sufi parable Majnun Layla.

In Nazareth, an old couple lives wearily to the rhythm of the daily routine. On the other side of the border, in Ramallah, their son Tarek wishes to remain an eternal bachelor, their daughter is about to give birth while her husband lands a movie role and the grandmother loses her head... Between check-points and dreams, frivolity and politics, some want to leave, others want to stay but all have personal affairs to resolve.

Bambaşka dünyalara ait bir kadın ve bir adam, sadece geceleri buluşur; ilişkileri sevişmekten ibarettir. Ama yakalandıklarında İsrailli evli kadınla Filistinli evli adamın birliktelikleri sosyopolitik nedenlerle bölünmüş Kudüs’te yeni bir gerginliğe yol açar. Artık tehlikeye atılan sadece evlilikleri değildir. Kudüs’ün dar sokaklarında yol alan ve bize bu kadim kentin gece halini ustalıkla sunan Sara ve Selim Hakkında, Filistinli yönetmen Muayad Alayan’ın ikinci uzun metrajlı filmi.

It is a time when Rome rules the world with the power of life and death in their hands. The province of Roman Palestine is a bubbling cauldron of rebellion and control. And on this greater canvas Luke, narrates a story of wonder, amazement and impact... The world is anticipating this moment in history but no one can imagine God touching His creation in the form of a little baby named Jesus. Much is recorded in the Gospels about Jesus' miraculous birth, to a young virgin named Mary, in Bethlehem, but little is known about his quiet growing up in Nazareth. Joseph, his adopted father, seems to have died well before Jesus turns 30 and begins his ministry.

During a scorching hot summer’s day in Amman, a man prepares for a special meeting.

One of the strongest examples of Israeli cinematic storytelling in recent years. Zuhara is on her way to her younger sister’s wedding, when she picks up Neriman, a young Bedouin hitchhiker escaping from an arranged marriage. As she unintentionally becomes an accomplice in Neriman’s struggle, Zuhara must confront her conflicted feelings toward her estrangement from her own family. Director Rony Sasson Angel sensitively evokes moving drama through the characters’ quiet exchanges, while building to a powerful climax. Stars Hila Vidor and Maisa Abed Elhadi make the tension and camaraderie between these two strangers palpable and touching. A deeply-poignant and visually-striking road movie.

Yeni evli öğretmen Layal, bir terör saldırısına karıştığı iddia edilen genç bir adamı arabasına aldığı için tutuklanır ve 8 yıl hapis cezasına çarptırılır. Hapishanede hamile olduğunu öğrenir ve bebeği doğurmaya karar verir. Fakat İsrail ile Filistin arasındaki savaş tüm şiddetiyle sürerken, Filistinli siyasi mahkûmların İsrailli ağır suçlularla bir arada tutulduğu bu hapishane hayatta kalmanın giderek zorlaştığı bir yere dönüşecektir.

In the Druze mountain villages between Syria and Israel, Kamel, a respected sheik, must make an impossible decision between family and duty when his estranged brother returns to the Golan Heights after 47 years in exile.

Tareq is released from an Israeli prison and returns to his hometown in Palestine, a place transformed by drastic changes and filled with secrets, to find his daughter. As secrets are uncovered, light is shed on the stifling nature of contemporary Palestinian society, while revealing Tareq’s hidden past. Inspired by true events.

Newly discharged from the Israeli Army, Ra'ed, a Bedouin from an unrecognized village in the Negev desert, is determined to save his family's failing herd of sheep, about to be sold. He plans to live off the herd by starting a roadside Bedouin hospitality restaurant.

Shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi ex-policeman Muhsin al-Khafaji has lost everything and is battling daily to keep himself and his sick daughter, Mrouj safe. But when he learns that his estranged elder daughter Sawsan is missing Khafaji is forced into a desperate search to find her.

Follows the life of five interns in a hospital and their personal lives, and their special abilities.

Follows three young Palestinian students who travel to Tel Aviv in 2008. They will try to establish a new and free Palestinian community for themselves.