Ali Suliman
Biography: Ali Suliman was born in 1977, in Nazareth, Israel. His interest in the dramatic arts led him to the prestigious " Acting School" in Tel-Aviv, where he graduated in the year 2000. At the end of his studies, he joined the "Commedia Dell'Arte", Masks Theater group in London. Ali decided to broaden his horizons within the boundaries of drama, by taking a position at the RAHAT community center, as an acting teacher. After his time at Negev, Ali went on to star in such award-winning films as "Paradise Now" (Best Foreign film winner Golden Globes, and Best Foreign film nominee - Academy Awards), and "The Syrian Bride". He also starred opposite Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner in the critically acclaimed action thriller "The Kingdom". Upcoming projects include the political thriller "Body of Lies" from legendary director Ridley Scott.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 10, 1977
Deathday: N/A
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Paradise Now
2005-09-07
Paradise Now
Overview: Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-07
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Deserted
2022-03-22
Deserted
Overview: Ingrid, an intelligent and beautiful 40-year old Western photojournalist, visits Sinai to finalise her photoshoot for her upcoming exhibition. She is kidnapped by terrorists and falls in love with one of the men.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-22
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Maradona's Legs
2019-09-24
Maradona's Legs
Overview: During the 1990 World Cup, two young Palestinian boys are on a quest for “Maradona’s legs”; the last missing sticker that they need in order to complete their world cup album and win a free Atari.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2019-09-24
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The Kingdom
2007-08-22
The Kingdom
Overview: A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-22
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Zaytoun
2012-10-14
Zaytoun
Overview: Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn Lebanon back to their home.
Genres: Drama War Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-14
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Lemon Tree
2008-02-08
Lemon Tree
Overview: Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order the trees' removal for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority, Israeli army, and a young attorney, Ziad Daud, who takes the case. In this allegory, does David stand a chance against Goliath?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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Body of Lies
2008-10-09
Body of Lies
Overview: The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-09
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Lovesick in the West Bank
2021-12-01
Lovesick in the West Bank
Overview: This is a palestine short movie that’s gonne ba premiered in the red sea film festival I hope that u add it so I can review it
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2021-12-01
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The Time That Remains
2009-08-12
The Time That Remains
Overview: An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spanning from 1948 until recent times. Combined with intimate memories of each member, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled "Israeli-Arabs," living as a minority in their own homeland.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2009-08-12
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Pomegranates and Myrrh
2009-02-01
Pomegranates and Myrrh
Overview: A free spirited woman dancer, Kamar, finds herself the lonely wife of a prisoner, Zaid, and away from everything she loves until she returns to the dance, defying societys taboos. At the dance Kamar is confronted with Kais, a Palestinian returnee. Sparks fly between Kamar and Kais, creating more than a passionate, emotional dance for the both of them. Matters become even more complicated when Zaid's sentence is extended. Kamar's life is thrown into turmoil as she becomes increasingly attached to Kais, and caught in the midst of her desire to dance and breaking the family and society taboos of the prisoner's wife's role while life under occupation rages on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-01
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Five Boys and a Wheel
2016-12-10
Five Boys and a Wheel
Overview: A young father has to help his son out of a petty conflict with the neighbors. As the parents of each respective family are summoned to discuss the issue at hand, the discussions begin to quickly spin out of control, putting the values of the father to test. Set in Aqaba, Jordan, this short film is an Arabic-language adaptation of Raymond Carver's 'Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes.'
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-12-10
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The Attack
2012-09-01
The Attack
Overview: An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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Cruel Summer
2012-05-08
Cruel Summer
Overview: A car thief (Kid Cudi) falls in love with a blind Arabian princess whose father allows them to marry under the terms he can help her see.
Genres: Music Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-08
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Inheritance
2012-12-12
Inheritance
Overview: A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of their daughters, as war rages between Israel and Lebanon. Internal conflicts explode between the family - secrets are revealed and lies are unmasked. The battles between different family members become as merciless as the outside war once their father falls into a coma and inches toward death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-12-12
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Abdelinho
2021-09-30
Abdelinho
Overview: In love with Brazil and Maria, a soap opera heroin harassed by a corrupt contractor, Abdelinho suffers parallel ordeal in Morocco by pressure of Amr Taleb, a dogmatic, moralistic priest, enforcing religious purity on the community
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2021-09-30
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Lone Survivor
2013-12-24
Lone Survivor
Overview: Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-24
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Do Not Forget Me Istanbul
2012-04-16
Do Not Forget Me Istanbul
Overview: Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’s history does not belong only to the people of Turkey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-16
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Mars at Sunrise
2014-02-08
Mars at Sunrise
Overview: A conflict between a Palestinian artist and an Israeli soldier is told in a surrealist style.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-08
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Under the Same Sun
2013-09-01
Under the Same Sun
Overview: The film is set in the near future, and it looks back on how peace was made in 2013 between Israel and Palestine. It is the story of two businessmen - one Palestinian and one Israeli - who struggle to set up a solar energy company. Both come from societies where there is strong opposition to cooperating with the other, and the film tells how they overcome hostility from within their own families and from the people around them. In the end, they mount a Facebook campaign that brings popular support both to their joint venture and to the peace process. The film was produced by Amir Harel, an Academy Award-nominated Israeli producer, and directed by Sameh Zoabi, a leading Palestinian film-maker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2013-09-01
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Flying Home
2014-04-02
Flying Home
Overview: Colin, an ambitious young American businessman, has a deal with a potential client, a rich Arab sheikh who is a passionate pigeon fancier. The sheikh has tried several times to buy a champion pigeon, but the owner continues to stubbornly refuse his offer. In an attempt to gain the trust of the Sheikh, Colin offers him a deal: if he manages to convince the owner to sell the champion pigeon, the sheikh will agree to do business with Colin's company. But when Colin meets Jos, the grumpy owner of the pigeon, and Isabella, his granddaughter, he realizes that this mission will not be as easy as he had hoped.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-02
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Farha
2021-09-14
Farha
Overview: Palestine, 1948. After the withdrawal of the British occupiers, tensions rise between Arabs and Jews. Meanwhile, Farha, the smart daughter of the mayor of a small village, unaware of the coming tragedy, dreams of going to study in the big city.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2021-09-14
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Dancing Arabs
2014-07-10
Dancing Arabs
Overview: A young Arab is caught between cultures as he is sent to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Israel in the 1980s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2014-07-10
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Yunan
Yunan
Overview: After being granted asylum in Germany, a renowned Arab author is not allowed to return home. Tired and embittered by his life in exile, Munir sets off in search of a place to kill himself. When he arrives on a remote island in the North Sea, Valeska, the kind older woman who takes him in, quickly realizes that he intends to commit suicide. Yet as the days go by, Munir finds himself drawn out of his depression by Valeska’s unexpected motherly care and the nature of the island, which reawaken his desires and inspire him to give life a second chance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
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A.K.A Nadia
2015-07-01
A.K.A Nadia
Overview: Maya is a happily married mother of two. She is a successful choreographer and everything seems to be perfect...but this life is a lie. Unbeknownst to her family and everyone around her, she has a hidden past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2015-07-01
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Rattle the Cage
2015-09-24
Rattle the Cage
Overview: 'Zinzana' is a psychological thriller set in a prison. Our hero finds himself locked in a cell with no I.D and no memory of what happened the night before. But being unable to make bail is the least of his problems when he's forced to play a madman's twisted game in order to save his family's lives.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2015-09-24
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The Last Friday
2013-12-10
The Last Friday
Overview: When a forty-year-old divorced father discovers that he needs to undergo an operation, which he can not afford, within the next 4 days, he finds himself forced to deal with the life he isolated himself from for the longest time.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2013-12-10
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Harmonia
2016-07-11
Harmonia
Overview: Sarah, a morose harpist in the Jerusalem Philharmonic Orchestra, is married to Abraham, the charismatic conductor of the group. They have no children. When Hagar, a young horn player from East Jerusalem joins the Orchestra, Sarah's world erupts. A unique friendship evolves between the two women. Hagar, feeling Sarah’s pain from not having children, offers to have a baby for Sarah. Ismail, born to Hagar and Abraham, is a wild and gifted pianist whom Sarah raises as her own. When Ismail discovers the true identity of his mother, his world – and that of those around him – falls apart. Harmonia maintains the unique essence of the biblical story from Genesis and adds a personal and human perspective.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-11
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Chronicle of a Disappearance
1996-09-01
Chronicle of a Disappearance
Overview: Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which seldom reappear later in the film. Among the many unrelated scenes, there is a Palestinian actress struggling to find an apartment in West Jerusalem, the owner of the Holy Land souvenir shop preparing merchandise for incoming Japanese tourists, a group of old women gossiping about their relatives, and an Israeli police van which screeches to a halt so several heavily armed soldiers can get off the car and urinate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1996-09-01
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The Syrian Bride
2004-11-11
The Syrian Bride
Overview: In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home. Mona's father Hammed is a political activist pro-Syria that is on probation by the Israeli government. His older son Hatten married a Russian woman eight years ago and was banished from Majdal Shams by the religious leaders and his father. His brother Marwan is a wolf trader that lives in Italy. His sister Amal has two teenager daughters and has the intention to join the university, but her marriage with Amin is in crisis. When the family gathers for Mona's wedding, an insane bureaucracy jeopardizes the ceremony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2004-11-11
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The Worthy
2016-10-08
The Worthy
Overview: A visually spectacular dystopian take on an Arab world torn apart by social disorder.
Genres: Thriller Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-10-08
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The Escape
2016-06-08
The Escape
Overview: Cabir believes he killed a man while fleeing the police in the Turkish-Greek-Bulgarian border area. His feelings of guilt pursue him like a ghost. But is his victim actually the husband of Aliyes, the woman Cabir takes in, hiding, protecting him? Atmospherically dense, Turkish love drama about a refugee from Syria.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2016-06-08
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It Must Be Heaven
2019-12-04
It Must Be Heaven
Overview: Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-04
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200 Meters
2020-09-08
200 Meters
Overview: Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, but separated by the wall. Their unusual living situation is starting to affect their otherwise happy marriage, but the couple does what they can to make it work. Every night, Mustafa flashes a light from his balcony to wish his children on the other side a goodnight, and they signal him back. One day Mustafa gets a call that every parent dreads: his son has been in an accident. He rushes to the checkpoint where he must agonisingly wait in line only to find out there is a problem with his fingerprints and is denied entry. Desperate, Mustafa resorts to hiring a smuggler to bring him across. His once 200-meter journey becomes a 200-kilometer odyssey joined by other travellers determined to cross.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2020-09-08
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The Way of the Wind
The Way of the Wind
Overview: A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
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The Warren
2014-10-05
The Warren
Overview: A dramatization of raid to capture a suspected militant by the Israeli Defense Forces during the Second Intifada into the sprawling maze of the Balata Refugee Camp in Palestine.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2014-10-05
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Arthur the King
2024-03-15
Arthur the King
Overview: Over the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur. As the team is pushed to their outer limits of endurance in the race, Arthur redefines what victory, loyalty and friendship truly mean.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-15
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Huda's Salon
2022-03-04
Huda's Salon
Overview: A woman whose visit to a hair salon turns into a nightmare when she is blackmailed by its owner.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2022-03-04
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Amira
2021-10-19
Amira
Overview: Amira, a 17 year old Palestinian, was conceived with the smuggled sperm of her imprisoned father, Nawar. Although their relationship since birth has been restricted to prison visits, he remains her hero. His absence in her life is overcompensated with love and affection from those surrounding her. But when a failed attempt to conceive another child reveals Nawar's infertility, Amira's world turns upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2021-10-19
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The Swimmers
2022-11-24
The Swimmers
Overview: From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-24
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The River
2021-08-05
The River
Overview: It's autumn. A man and a woman are about to leave a restaurant situated in the heart of the Lebanese mountains. They are suprised by fighter planes screaming past at low altitude. In the distance, war seems to be breaking out once more. Losing sight of the woman, the man starts looking for her. He finds her on the other side of the mountain. Together they sink deeper into nature, which becomes increasingly spectral, just like the slender thread that ties them to each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2021-08-05
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