Areen Omari
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Areen Omari is a Palestinian actress and producer. Omari lives in Ramallah. She often works with Rashid Masharawi and has an important role in The Other Son by Lorraine Lévy. Source: Article "Areen Omari" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: Not available
Age: Not available
Gender: Female
Popularity:
Known For:
Private
Overview: Mohammed lives with his wife and five children in a house located between a Palestinian village and an Israeli settlement. The house becomes a highly strategic location and is occupied by the army. But despite the invasion of Israeli soldiers, Mohammed refuses to leave.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2004-08-12
Popularity:
The Other Son
Overview: Two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-04-04
Popularity:
Haifa
Overview: Haifa, nicknamed after the city of his love and hope, goes around and comes around in a Palestinian refugee camp. Although he is everybody's fool, there are many things that only he knows. He is closely related to the family of Abu Said, a former policeman who gains new hopes from the political developments. Oum Said, his wife, hangs her hope on the imminent release of their eldest son, Said, from jail. She tries to find him a bride to secure things for the future. Their youngest son, Siad, is cynical and rebellious. He refuses to believe things. Sabah, the 12 year old daughter is romancing the future and wants to find out what's in it for her. The different stories are interwoven into a very timely insight into the current Palestinian mind.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-02
Popularity:
Ticket to Jerusalem
Overview: This inspired hybrid of documentary and fiction follows Jabir, who runs a mobile cinema from his old truck throughout the West Bank while his wife works to bring emergency medical care to Palestinians. When Jabir is invited by a spirited schoolteacher to make a screening in the old city of Jerusalem, he becomes obsessed with the idea of this pilgrimage and begins to investigate the possibilities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2002-08-29
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Palestine Stereo
Overview: After an Israeli raid causes the two brothers, Milad and Samy, to lose everything, they decide to rent out audio equipment for various occasions, in an attempt to gather enough money to emigrate to Canada.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2014-03-28
Popularity:
Attentive
Overview: Before leaving to settle abroad, Ahmad accepts one last job. He must audition actors for the new National Palestinian Theatre. On the road with interviewer Bissan and her cameraman Loumir, Ahmad goes in search of talent in the numerous refugee camps of Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. Hopefully for the last time, Ahmad experiences the insurmountable difficulties of life in Palestine: harassing searches at check points and borders, barricades, constant tension. He realizes the destiny of all waiting refugees is much the same as his own. He ends up guiding the auditioning actors into dramatizing what best embodies their destiny. But with the chance to catch his plane at risk, Ahmad could see the opportunity for his long-awaited exile slip away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2005-09-17
Popularity:
Laila's Birthday
Overview: As Abu Laila is forced to leave his job as a judge and become a cab driver, he faces a hectic challenge when he's told by his wife to bring a gift and a cake for their daughter's seventh birthday, which proves to be a task more complicated than he expected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2009-04-09
Popularity:
Screwdriver
Overview: After fifteen years of imprisonment, Ziad struggles to adjust to modern Palestinian life as the hero everyone hails him to be. Unable to distinguish reality from hallucination he unravels and forces himself to go back to where it all began.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2018-09-05
Popularity:
Writing on Snow
Overview: The film discusses different ideologies in terms of religion, geography and intellect reflected as well in the current rifts between different parts of the Arab world. A group of individuals strive to find the hidden truths about themselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2017-11-04
Popularity:
Upshot
Overview: Suleiman and Mona are a couple who lead a solitary life in which they care for animals and trees and have constant heated discussions about their children’s life choices. However, one day, their routine is disturbed when a stranger shows around, calling to mind a painful past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2024-08-10
Popularity:
The Olive Harvest
Overview: Upon his release from an Israeli prison, Mazen begins to fall in love with Raeda, his friend since childhood who is already engaged to Taher, Mazen's younger brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2003-01-02
Popularity:
Curfew
Overview: This drama portrays a day in the life of a Palestinian family during a curfew announced by the Israeli army in a Palestinian refugee camp on the Gaza Strip in 1993. From that point on, they must live behind closed shutters, barred from their daily lives and needs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1994-01-02
Popularity: