Qais Nashif

Qais Nashif

Perfil

Qais Nashif

Películas

Amira
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.
Limbo
Una observación poco convencional de los refugiados que esperan ser asilados en una remota isla escocesa ficticia. Se centra en Omar, un joven músico sirio que está agobiado por el peso del oud de su abuelo, que ha llevado desde su tierra natal.
Abu Omar
Salah
Under a very strict military curfew Salah, a grieving father, sets out on the road to cross the Israeli border carrying his dead son Omar in a duffel bag. Miri, a pregnant single woman, decides to help him out at all costs while fending off the terrible heat.
Todo pasa en Tel Aviv
Salam
Salam, un apuesto palestino de 30 años que vive en Jerusalén, trabaja en el set de la famosa telenovela palestina 'Tel Aviv on Fire', producida en Ramallah. Todos los días, para llegar a los estudios de televisión, Salam debe pasar por un estricto control israelí. Allí se encuentra con el comandante a cargo del puesto de control, Assi, cuya esposa es fanática de la telenovela. Para impresionarla, Assi se involucra en escribir la historia. Pronto, Salam se da cuenta de que las ideas de Assi podrían llevarle a un ascenso como guionista. Su carrera creativa empieza a despegar.
Looking for Oum Kulthum
A film within a film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum" is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female singer of the Arab world, Oum Kulthum. Through her difficult journey, not unlike her heroine's, she has to face the struggles, sacrifices and the price that a woman has to pay if she dares to cross the lines of a conservative male dominated society.
Happiness Wrapped in a Blanket
After a long night, Bashir returns home from work to find his Jewish girlfriend Karin with an unexpected baby in her arms. “We’re a family now,” she tells him, "and we'll never be apart". Bashir is torn between his will to devotionally support his girlfriend and doing the right thing by returning the baby to his mother, a foreign worker who left her child under the threat of being deported from Israel. A decision is made and the couple sets-out on a runaway journey with the baby wrapped in a blanket. As they escape the police, Bashir does his best to look after and protect both Karin and the baby, but he knows the end is near and every solution will have dire consequence. Being an Arab-Israeli with a Jewish girlfriend makes him the “usual suspect”. In the background of social and political topics such as Arabs, Jews and foreign workers, a tender love story is revealed and a delicate family is formed…
Paradise Cruise
Haled
An impossible love story between Yossi, a former IDF soldier, and Dora, a mysterious French photographer visiting Israel, as they both struggle in vain to leave their pasts behind.
Big Bad Wolves
Stranger on a Horse
Una serie de brutales asesinatos provocan la inestabilidad en un pueblo alejado de la metrópoli. Estos duros acontecimientos provocarán que la vida de tres hombres quede entrelazada entre sí para siempre. El padre de la primera víctima cuya sed de venganza es insostenible viendo la ineficacia policial a la hora de resolver el caso, un detective de policía que a la hora de resolver un conflicto decide actuar en el margen de la ley y un profesor de religión, máximo sospechoso de los asesinatos debido a su relación directa con las víctimas, es detenido aunque al final es liberado debido a una negligencia policial.
Though I Know the River Is Dry
Caught between his brother's past and his child's future, one man's choice triggers catastrophe for his whole family. He has returned to Palestine. On his journey through the country he relives the trauma of his past and the choice that sent him to America - a choice between a passport for his unborn child and a safe haven for his activist brother.
Last Days in Jerusalem
About the emotional upheaval of a Palestinian couple's last moments before leaving voluntarily Jerusalem, their native city, to forge a brighter future in France.
Darling, Something's Wrong with Your Head
Qays
“Darling, Something's Wrong with Your Head" a story of forbidden love, is the first fiction feature set in Gaza in over 15 years. The film is a modern re-telling of the legendary tragic romance 'Majnun Layla', which was set in seventh century Arabia, when a poet named Qays fell in love with Layla. Driven by the intensity of his passion, Qays was known as 'Majnun Layla', which translates as 'madman for Layla'. In the contemporary setting, two students in the West Bank are forced to return home to Gaza, where their love defies tradition. To reach his lover, Qays graffiti's poetry across town.
Tora Bora
Sajed
Tora Bora is a story of the journey of Abou Tareq and Om Tareq in their search for their youngest son Ahmed, who after being brainwashed by extremists, decides to leave Kuwait to join the the terrorist forces in Afghanistan. The elderly couple are not prepared for the suffering and darkness they encounter on their journey through the war-torn country. Their elder son, Tareq, with the aid of Pakistani intelligence, attempts to find his parents and his brainwashed brother. Tora Bora is a film about how the mistakes of one son can lead to hardships for an entire family in Arab/Muslim society.
Red de mentiras
Mustafa Karami
Roger Ferris es el mejor hombre de la CIA. Las misiones que le encargan lo llevan desde Oriente Medio a Washington. Cada uno de sus pasos depende de una voz al otro lado de una línea telefónica segura: la del veterano de la CIA Ed Hoffman, responsable de las operaciones de la Agencia en todo Oriente Medio. Trabajando desde un móvil en su confortable casa, Hoffman sigue la pista de un líder terrorista que ha dirigido una campaña de bombardeos eludiendo a la red de inteligencia más sofisticada del mundo. Para sacar a los terroristas de su madriguera, Ferris tendrá que entrar en su turbio mundo. Adaptación de la novela "Body of Lies", de David Ignatius, antiguo columnista de asuntos internacionales del diario "The Washington Post".
Natividad
Benjamin
Historia de una joven llamada María y del designio divino que cambió para siempre su vida y la historia de la humanidad. Relata su vida en Nazaret, su compromiso con su esposo José, la visita del Ángel Gabriel, un embarazo milagroso y el arduo camino al que ella y José tuvieron que hacer frente desde Nazaret hasta Belén para dar a luz al hijo de Dios.
Paradise Now
Said
Khaled y Said son dos jóvenes palestinos, amigos desde la infancia, a los que reclutan para llevar a cabo un atentado suicida en Tel Aviv. Después de una última noche con sus respectivas familias, de las que no les está permitido despedirse, parten hacia la frontera con explosivos pegados al cuerpo. Sin embargo, nada sale como estaba previsto y una serie de contratiempos les obliga a separarse. Entonces tendrán que replantearse su vida y sus convicciones.