Maisa Abd Elhadi
Also Known As: Maisa Abdelhadi
Biography: Maisa Abd Elhadi is a prominent Palestinian actress born in Nazareth, Palestine. She is an actress, known for 3000 Nights (2015), Personal Affairs (2016), The Worthy (2016) and Dégradé (2015), Gaza Mon Amour (2020), and Huda's Salon (2021).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nazareth, Israel
Birthday: November 15, 1985
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Gender: Female
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Invisibles
Overview: 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.
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Original Language: he
Release Date: 2014-10-10
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Habibi Rasak Kharban
Overview: Young lovers Qays and Layla are university students in the West Bank who hail from Khan Yunis in Gaza. He is pursuing a degree in literature and she in engineering, but they are forced to return home before completing their courses. In the more religious and traditional environment of Khan Yunis, their love story can continue only by marrying. Yet Qays, who is a construction worker living in a refugee camp, is too poor to convince Layla’s father that he can provide for his beloved daughter. As the couple struggles to be together, Qays paints verses from the classical poem Majnun Layla all over Khan Yunis, a rebellious act that angers Layla’s father and the local self-appointed moral police.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2011-09-04
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Wherever You Go
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-16
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Lyd
Overview: A sci-fi documentary that follows the rise and fall of Lyd — a 5,000-year-old metropolis that was once a bustling Palestinian town until it was conquered when the State of Israel was established in 1948. As the film unfolds, a chorus of characters creates a tapestry of the Palestinian experience of this city and the trauma left by the massacre and expulsion.
Genres: Documentary Science Fiction
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2023-08-20
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Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-14
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The Taste of Apples Is Red
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Eyes of a Thief
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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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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3000 Nights
Overview: Iman, a young newly wed Palestinian bride, is arrested and incarcerated in a top-security Israeli prison where she gives birth to a baby boy. As she struggles to survive and raise her child behind bars, she is torn between her instinct as a mother and the difficult decisions she must make, finding through her relationship with the other prisoners - both Palestinian and Israeli – the time and space to reflect, develop and mature as a young woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2015-10-15
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Personal Affairs
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2017-03-01
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The Angel
Overview: True story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat - while simultaneously Israeli Intelligence's most precious asset of the 20th century. Based on NYT bestselling book 'The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel' by Uri Bar-Joseph.
Genres: Action Drama History Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-15
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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 Reports on Sarah and Saleem
Overview: The affaire of a married Palestinian man and a married Israeli woman in Jerusalem takes a dangerous political dimension when they are spotted in the wrong place at the wrong time leaving them to deal with more than their broken marriages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2018-03-15
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Tel Aviv on Fire
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2018-08-23
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The Savior
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family History Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2014-03-29
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The Idol
Overview: Mohammed Assaf, an aspiring musician living in Gaza, sets a seemingly impossible goal: to compete on the program "Arab Idol."
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-01-21
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In Between
Overview: The film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, have sex, and choose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-11-25
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A Tramway in Jerusalem
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2019-04-24
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In Vitro
Overview: Decades after an eco-disaster engulfs the biblical city of Bethlehem, two scientists from different generations discuss memory, exile and nostalgia in this symbolic speculative fiction.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2019-05-11
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Gaza Mon Amour
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2021-06-04
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The Ghosts We Left at Home
Overview: During a scorching hot summer’s day in Amman, a man prepares for a special meeting. A raw and intimate portrayal of a man in grief, and a city on fire, doomed and in exile, and sinking to hit rock bottom. It plays in the margin of reality, where forces of the masculine and the feminine alternate, merge, attract and repel.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2020-11-05
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Dégradé
Overview: 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”?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2016-04-27
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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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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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The Alleys
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2021-08-08
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