Juliano Mer-Khamis
Nacimiento : 1958-05-29, Nazareth, Israel
Muerte : 2011-04-04
Historia
Juliano Mer-Khamis was an Israeli and Palestinian actor, director, filmmaker, and political activist of Jewish and Palestinian Eastern Orthodox Christian parentage. In 2011, he was assassinated by a masked gunman in the Palestinian city of Jenin, where he had established The Freedom Theatre.
Sheikh Saabah (as Juliano Merr Khamis)
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.
Narra la historia de dos palestinos, Soraya y Emad, con vidas completamente distintas pero que tienen en común un sentimiento de marginalidad, que se conocen en Palestina en el momento en que uno (Soraya) desea quedarse y el otro huir (Emad). Soraya tiene veintiocho años. Nació y se educó en Brooklyn, pero ha decidido regresar a Palestina, país del que su familia tuvo que exiliarse en 1948. Desde su llegada a Ramallah, intenta recuperar el dinero de sus abuelos. Por su parte Emad, nacido en los territorios palestinos, ha conocido toda su vida la ocupación y la realidad palestina, y tiene como máximo sueño obtener un visado para ir a estudiar a Canadá y marcharse de allí. (FILMAFFINITY)
Writer
Juliano Mer Khamis' documentary on his mother, Arna, an activist against the Israeli occupation who founded an alternative education system for Palestinian children.
Director
Juliano Mer Khamis' documentary on his mother, Arna, an activist against the Israeli occupation who founded an alternative education system for Palestinian children.
A successful author, Liz, searches for her daughter, Rachel, in the Sinai Desert. There she meets a Bedouin storyteller who relays the unusual love story of a Western tourist and the son of a Bedouin Sheik named Najim. Their relationship is torn apart when the American is exposed to a tribal ritual.
Moussa
In May 1948, shortly before the creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of immigrants from across Europe arrive in Palestine--only to risk arrest by British troops.
Jesus Carrera
En un futuro cercano, un terrible terremoto ha convertido el sur de California en una isla desierta por varios supervivientes. Nick Preston (Dolph Lundgren), un capitán de las fuerzas aéreas, asume el mando de un grupo y dirige patrullas diarias al desierto en busca de comida, combustible y otros supervivientes. Por otro lado, un asesino convicto, Jesus (Juliano Mer), que se libró de la silla eléctrica gracias al terremoto, se ha apoderado de una prisión de máxima seguridad que se encuentra cerca y ahora lidera una banda de peligrosos presos decididos a gobernar el nuevo orden que se ha constituido tras la catástofre. Los hombres de Jesus secuestran a la ingenua y encantadora Candy (Rebecca Cross), así que ahora Nick y su pequeña patrulla deberán entrar a la fuerza en la cárcel para salvarla a ella y a un grupo de niños inocentes en un autobús escolar.
A soldier (Ami Smolartchik) is told by his girlfriend (Ravit Rozen) that he has impregnated her. She asks him to visit her. His commanders reject his request for an R&R vacation, so, he takes over a tank and threatens to launch a misslie straight into their office if his request is not granted.
Ariel
Individual memories of a group of teenage Holocaust survivors in Israel creates sharp conflicts among them.
Ramon (as Juliano Mer)
A young street fighter seeks revenge against a powerful drug lord who killed his entire family. Using of his many special combat skills, he's about to take down a whole criminal operation, reaching his goal whatever the consequences.
Mahmoud (as Juliano Mer)
Una chica joven viaja al Cairo a visitar a su padre. Allí se verá envuelta en una situación tortuosa con un sadomasoquita bizarro.
Antonio Valdez (as Juliano Mer)
Mark, un antiguo miembro de las fuerzas especiales, es testigo junto a su mujer y su pequeño hijo del secuestro del avión en el que van a viajar. Los terroristas consiguen capturar varios rehenes entre los viajeros, entre ellos la mujer de Mark.
Morris (as Juliano Mer)
Based on real life story of Israeli oriental singer Zohar Argov, who grew up in a poor family, became rich & famous but the drugs brought him down.
Ali
True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.
Three stories about three women: one is trying to find the right guy; one is trying to get a divorce from her runaway husband so she takes hostages; one turns Tel Aviv upside down in order to save a kitten trapped in a storm drain.
Menahme (as Juliano Mer)
Two interconnected stories in the 1930s, one set in Berlin, the other in Palestine: Mania Vilbouchevich Shohat (1880-1961), called Tania, a Russian Jew and revolutionary, goes from Minsk to Palestine to live on a collective. She promotes feminism and laments a shift in the men from self-defense to aggression. Her friend, Else Lasker-Schuler (1869 - 1945), expressionist poet and German Jew, is in Berlin, writing, caring for her son, watching Hitler's movement take power. She goes to Jerusalem and imagines a park for Arab and Jew. Her poems, voiced from within, capture her experience. The film meditates on the violence at the root of Israel's birth: of the Nazis and of the Zionists.
A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men prepare the groom. Guests gather. The Arab youths plot violence. One Israeli officer swoons in the heat and Arab women take her into the cool house. A thoroughbred gets loose and runs to a mined field; soldiers and Arabs must cooperate to rescue it. As darkness falls, tensions between army and villagers rise, and the groom's wedding-night anger and impotence threaten family dignity and honor. Can cool heads prevail?
Haman
Ahasverus, king of Persia and Media, puts aside Vashti and makes Esther his queen, choosing her among maidens in a kingdom stretching from India to Ethiopia. Esther, using information from Mordecai, her uncle and patron, saves the king from assassination. Haman, the king's favorite, is miffed when Mordecai won't bow to him, so he orders death to all Jews in the kingdom, under the seal of the king. Esther pleads for her people, and Mordecai is in turn given license to make his own edict under the king's seal. Mordecai loses sight of his original intention, and bloody murder ensues. Purim annually celebrates the story. At the end of the film, the actors comment.
After the death of their mother, Thomas and his sister Mariana leave their hometown for a brighter future in the city. They become patrons of a marginal bar in Tel Aviv, Bar 51, whose regulars serve as a backdrop for Thomas’s obsessive love for his sister, and her desire to break free and make a life of her own.
Julio
A Charlie, una joven actriz de EE. UU. pro-palestina, le ofrecen un suculento contrato para rodar en Grecia un anuncio para la TV. Al poco tiempo, descubre que todo el grupo es en realidad un comando de Israel que pretende reclutarla para que luche junto a ellos.
Eddi the Butcher
An avowed anarchist and Stern Gang hitman is sent to Jerusalem to assassinate a senior British officer creating much tension within the already troubled cell and almost brings its collapse, as the British operatives are closing in.