Mohammad Bakri

Adam, humilde hijo de un pescador, ingresa en la prestigiosa universidad de Al-Azhar de El Cairo, epicentro del poder del islam sunita. El día en que empiezan las clases, el Gran Imán que dirige la institución muere de repente. Sin ser consciente de ello, Adam se encuentra en medio de una lucha de poder implacable entre las élites religiosas y políticas del país.

In a small village in the occupied Golan Heights, the life of a desperate unlicensed doctor, who is going through an existential crisis, takes another unlucky turn when he encounters a man wounded in the war in Syria. Overturning all community expectations in times of war and national crisis, he ventures forth to meet his newly found destiny.

A political refugee living in London tries to get back to his home in Palestine to see his dying son.

Wardi, una niña palestina de 11 años, vive en el campo de refugiados en el que ha nacido. El día en el que su bisabuelo le da la llave de su antigua casa en Galilea, ella teme que él haya perdido toda esperanza de volver a su hogar.

A complicated and nonliteral Jewish film about feelings the name for which has not yet been invented. A friend of the family in which the wife died in labour loved her more than life itself, although he will never say it out loud. He gladly agrees to babysit the child for a day and brings her home, where he is suddenly faced with resentment from his relatives. This multifigured film with beautiful unspoken truths talks about widowhood of other people and oneself, about others’ children who can be dearer than the yet unborn children of one’s own, and about love that does not follow the loved one into the grave.

Adaptación cinematográfica de la novela homónima de Vince Flynnm, cuya trama presenta a Mitch Rapp, un estudiante ejemplar que, tras la terrible muerte de su novia en una playa a manos de unos terorristas, decide cambiar el rumbo de su vida y dedicarse a la caza de esta clase de delincuentes. Un año más tarde, entra en las filas de la CIA, institución en la que estará a las órdenes de su mentor, Stan Hurley.

Shadi (Saleh Bakri), un palestino que vive en Italia, regresa tras varios años a su Nazaret natal. Su regreso no es precisamente por gusto, porque vuelve obligado para honrar su "wajib", su deber de repartir invitaciones a la boda de su hermana con su padre, Abu Shadi (Mohammed Bakri). Así, a lo largo de este trayecto en un viejo Volvo por la ciudad, se muestra una visión de cómo es ser un palestino en el extranjero y un palestino en su lugar de origen.

Mira Segal wakes up screaming one morning to discover that her husband has disappeared. The police open a Missing Person file and advise her to wait. As weeks turn into months, Mira continues to search for him while exploring her own desires and the guilt of not wanting him back.

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.

In times of war, a man wants to save his six children from starvation.

In times of war, a man wants to save his six children from starvation.

In times of war, a man wants to save his six children from starvation.

Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He lives alone with his 10-year old son, Ziad. The kid has a special bond with the two giraffes in the zoo. He seems to be the only one to communicate with them. After an air raid in the region the male giraffe dies. His mate, Rita, won’t survive unless the veterinarian finds her a new companion. The only zoo that might provide this animal is located in Tel Aviv ...

Nueva visión de la vida y muerte de Jesucristo, tomando como base la narración del Evangelio según San Lucas. Esta interpretación, producida y realizada en Palestina, narra con vocación de honestidad y crudeza, la historia del Hijo de Dios, desde su maravilloso nacimiento, su infancia en familia, su madurez y la difusión de su mensaje de paz y fraternidad, hasta su agonizante muerte. (FILMAFFINITY)

Shadi lives in a horse-farm with his disabled and strict father, and with his beloved aging horse, Rosa. The status-quo of their daily farm life is broken when Noa arrives at the farm with her mother for the weekend, and Shadi discovers his father's intentions to kill Rosa.

Ten directors, Israeli and Palestinian embarked on a journey to create short films, fiction or documentary, inspired by water.

Ten directors, Israeli and Palestinian embarked on a journey to create short films, fiction or documentary, inspired by water.

A fisherman lives alone. His days and nights are fraught with waiting. He rises with the sun and carries his anxieties and tools to the sea, where he fishes. He fishes until sunset without ever catching a fish. One day, he meets a passerby on the sea playing a mouth harmonica. The man feels compassion for him and tells him that he is fishing in a sea without fish, in a sea that is dead, but the fisherman does not even look at him.

Cruel politics and intensive love. Najla (N) has just finished her medical studies in Rome. Sherko (S) conceals sick and injured partisans. Mokhtar (M) belongs to the dictator's police. S and M love N, N loves S. When she gets a letter from S that she must forget him, she returns to Kirkuk. As a doctor she can help S. Mokhtar follows her trail and S and N are arrested. S is tortured. N is beaten up and then offered the job as a police doctor, a reward for leading the police to S. She accepts because then she can collect and pass on the names of people murdered or tortured. She will attend many mass murders of women and children. Once she can save them by fabricating that a child has cholera, with greater risk of contamination if she is dead. – When M understands that he cannot win N's love, he smuggles both N and S out of the country. Fully aware of the consequences he distracts the border guards and is shot by them. Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden

A man living in 1982 Beirut listens to the bombs fall and reminisces about the smell of coffee.

Romantically disillusioned woman finds herself organising her sister's wedding. Cue romantic mismatching and shenanigans...

Un director palestino exiliado en Europa está rodando un documental basado en testimonios reales sobre la expulsión de los palestinos de su tierra natal en 1948.

"At eight o'clock, it's Laila's birthday, okay?" Palestinian judge turned cab driver Abu Laila's wife reminds her husband. But on his young daughter's birthday, like any day, Abu faces a nerve-wracking shift in a Ramallah yellow cab armed only with an ex-jurist's misplaced pride, a father's loyalty, and a sticker reminding passengers that smoking and carrying AK-47s are prohibited. Rather than address politics or document holy war heroics and villainy, Laila's Birthday focuses on the toll that the unending Palestinian-Israeli conflict extracts from civilians clinging to both employment and a semblance of normal life amidst chaos and corruption, missile attacks and bursts of gunfire.

Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). En una pequeña ciudad turca, la guerra y las persecuciones contra la minoría armenia parecen muy lejanas. Después de haber emigrado a Italia, el hijo mayor de una familia armenia, intenta volver a su casa para reunirse con los suyos. Los esfuerzos de su familia por darle una calurosa bienvenida se ven truncados al intervenir Turquía en la guerra. Comienza entonces el éxodo armenio, una odisea marcada por el hambre, la sed y la voluntad desesperada de las mujeres de esta familia por salvarse de la muerte y de la indignidad

Odelia, a talented screenwriter, and her father,a well-known author, have a bond that is both complicated and demanding. The agonies of writing make it difficult for Odelia to bridge the gap between the buzz of creation and the the depths of despair, and the frustration affects her romantic relationship.

Since You Left by renowned actor and director Mohammad Bakri is neither a eulogy to his friend and mentor, the writer and politician Emile Habibi, nor is it an account of the late author's life and work.

Mohamed es director y profesor de literatura inglesa de uno de los institutos más progresistas de Palestina. Vive en un pueblecito con su esposa y sus cinco hijos. Su casa, situada a medio camino entre un pueblo palestino y un asentamiento judío, no tarda en convertirse en un punto estratégico y acaba siendo confiscada y ocupada por soldados israelíes. A pesar de ello, Mohamed se niega a irse. Sus firmes convicciones pacifistas le llevan a creer que es posible convivir con los soldados.

Mohammed Bakri's documentary "Jenin, Jenin" is a heart-rending depiction of the aftermath of Israel's destruction of Jenin refugee camp in 2002, where every scene and interview is profound and distressing in equal measure.

Mohammed Bakri's documentary "Jenin, Jenin" is a heart-rending depiction of the aftermath of Israel's destruction of Jenin refugee camp in 2002, where every scene and interview is profound and distressing in equal measure.

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.

In Search of Peace: 1948-1967 chronicles Israel's first two decades, offering new insights on the origins of the Middle East conflict. Combining a rich tapestry of rare archival film and photos, the film offers a unique global perspective on one of the seminal events in the 3,500-year history of the Jewish people. Featuring the voices of Edward Asner, Anne Bancroft, Richard Dreyfuss, Miriam Margolyes and Michael York. "An unabashedly emotional and stirring inspirational history of Israel..."

In ha-Argazim, a neighborhood that time forgot, the one-year anniversary of Morris Mandabon's death is approaching, and his youngest son, Nissim has had a dream in which his father orders him to re-open the old neighborhood movie theater, thus breaking the vow that Morris had made years before never to screen movies again. Nissim and his brother George, together with Aharon Gabardine, who was the projectionist back in the old days, are determined to fulfill Morris' request. The same day Nissim has his dream, Avram Mandabon, Morris' brother, returns for his brother's memorial after a 25-year absence. His reappearance causes old family feuds to resurface.

Sharon Golban es una arqueóloga que descubre unos restos dentro de una tumba en Jerusalén. Tras estudiarlos detenidamente llega a la conclusión de que pueden pertenecer a Jesucristo. Por ello el Vaticano decide enviar al joven sacerdote Matt Gutiérrez para asegurarse de que los hallazgos científicos no causan una conmoción en la comunidad cristiana. Todo esto supondrá un dilema para el sacerdote que verá puesta a prueba su fe.

The documentary records the memories of a group of Palestinian elders, mainly veterans from the 1948 expulsions. Their stories of refugee struggles are interspersed with poems of Mahmoud Darwish.

The documentary records the memories of a group of Palestinian elders, mainly veterans from the 1948 expulsions. Their stories of refugee struggles are interspersed with poems of Mahmoud Darwish.

This romantic, political drama is about the reunion of an Algerian woman who abandoned her lover 35 years earlier to live in France, and the lover who chose to stay in Algeria and fight the French colonials.

Israeli short films mini-series.

Scar holds a special place in the development and oeuvre of Ronit Elkabetz: it’s her first work as a co-screenwriter, and her sole work for someone other than herself or her brother, Shlomi.

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.

Cuando los intrusos que buscan un tesoro, entran en una antigua cripta egipcia, accionan una maldición que envía a Némesis reencarnado para venganrse.

Upon arriving Israel on her first foreign assignment, American photojournalist Faye Milano is greeted by David, an Israeli officer and writer who's also the nephew of Jerusalem's mayor

Directed by Uri Barbash.

An Israeli soldier is taken hostage by a small PLO squad in Lebanon. The soldier planned to go on vacation and to fly to the world final soccer cup, he and his capturers share the love to soccer and toward the (not so happy) end a relationship is made.

Directed by Rashid Masharawi.

A Palestinian refugee living in Copenhagen is rescued from a gang of racist thugs by a young woman with whom he falls in love.

Cuando un diplomático de alto nivel de la embajada Israelí y su familia son brutalmente asesinados, el marine Jack Burns promete vengar su muerte y localizar al culpable. Burns junto con su mejor equipo de hombres se adentrarán en la búsqueda del asesino enfrentándose a situaciones de lucha entre terroristas fuertemente armados, donde parece que no hay vuelta atrás.

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.

In Israel's Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the hatred between Jewish and Arab prisoners to his advantage. Uri, in for 12 years for armed robbery, and Issan, in for 50 years for PLO violence, command the respect of their cells. When the Arabs are framed for the murder of a Jewish prisoner and a young inmate commits suicide rather than lie about what happened, Uri and Issan form an unlikely partnership, leading the security block on a strike. Prison officials try to break it. In the background are Uri's daughter and Issan's wife, women of beauty and passion who embody the distance from inside a cell to the outside.

Hanna Kaufman, es una judía nacida en Estados Unidos y de nacionalidad francesa, pero quiere ser israelita. Poco después de casarse con Victor Bonnet, lo abandona y se va a un kibutz en Israel con un poeta que pronto se cansa de ella. Se instala entonces en Jerusalén y termina la carrera de derecho que había empezado antes de casarse. Josué Herzog, el fiscal general, le ha asignado la defensa de Sélim Bakri, un inmigrante ilegal. Se celebra el juicio y a Sélim lo deportan al Puente Allenby. Hanna que está separada pero no divorciada, se queda embarazada de Josué. Desesperada, llama a Víctor, que sigue enamorado de ella y que no duda en tomar el primer avión para ir a verla. Pero llega en el momento en el que a Hanna la reclama de nuevo Sélim, que ha vuelto a ser detenido, pero esta vez con 2.000 dólares y un informe que contiene todos los títulos de propiedad de la casa que lleva años reclamando.

Based on the novel "L'avenir est un crime du passé" an autobiographical novel of Arab cameraman Rahal Amin Touati, and "The house of certain Death" written by Albert Cosseri.