Saleh Bakri

Tragedy strikes a Syrian family in Aleppo. This triggers a chain reaction of events involving five different families in four different countries.

An Israeli family's equilibrium gradually disintegrates as a mysterious sound is heard every evening at the door of their apartment.

Halim lleva mucho tiempo casado con Mina, con quien regenta una tienda tradicional de caftanes en la medina de Salé, una de las más antiguas de Marruecos. La pareja vive desde siempre con un secreto que Halim ha aprendido a ocultar, pero la enfermedad de Mina y la llegada a la tienda de un joven aprendiz amenazan con perturbar este equilibrio. Unidos por el amor, cada uno tratará de ayudar al otro a enfrentarse a sus miedos.

Marked each year by celebrations, Israel’s Independence Day coincides with the commemoration of Al-Nakba (the Catastrophe) — the day Palestinians memorialize their dispossession and displacement. For Tamer (Mahmoud Bakri, a member of the acting dynasty begun by veteran Palestinian performer Mohammad Bakri) and his high-school friends — Safwat (Mohammed Abd El Rahman), Shekel (Mohammad Karaki), and Rida (Ahmed Zaghmouri) — the social and psychological dissonance of being Palestinian in Israel is a daily struggle that is only heightened in the lead-up to Nakba Day.

Los Badri han escapado de Beirut para construir su utopía particular lejos de la polución y la conflictividad de la gran urbe. Pero este oasis de resistencia al capitalismo global se ve amenazado por los avances de un vertedero cercano y las grietas internas dentro de la familia.

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.

Star-crossed immigrant lovers roam their gated community drink-by-drink in search of the perfect house.

Derviş Zaim turns his camera into a tragedy in Syria this time and reminds once again the value of telling stories. Flash memory is from a true story; It is inspired by a Syrian military officer secretly taking out 11,000 photographs documenting the regime's violence against civilians and opponents. Losing his ability to speak as a result of an attack, Ahmet starts working in a unit where people who died in conflicts are photographed and recorded. He wants to announce what he sees to the world, and to give voice to stories stuck in war. He has to choose between protecting himself and his wife or fulfilling his responsibility to humanity.

The story unfolds in the winter of the year 1215. A mysterious stranger who has escaped from prison arrives in a tiny, remote village in the kingdom of France plagued by famine and leprosy, and ruled by an ageing lord, a former hero from the Crusades, Lord Ocam. Together with his horde of knights, Ocam abducts a young girl from the village in order to exert his droit du seigneur over her. A handful of villagers, backed up by The Stranger, attempt to release her, but they only have until nightfall…

En su aniversario de boda, Tusef y su hija viajan a Cisjordania para comprarle un regalo a su mujer. Entre soldados, calles segregadas y puestos de control, ¿cómo de sencillo será irse de compras?

Una madre divorciada hace todo lo posible por proteger a su hija después de que tenga lugar una tragedia inesperada.

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 Palestinian couple resorts to an unusual way to conceive as the husband is detained in an Israeli jail where visits are restricted.

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.

'Zinzana' is a psychological thriller set in a prison. Our hero finds himself locked in a cell with no I.D and no memory of what happened the night before. But being unable to make bail is the least of his problems when he's forced to play a madman's twisted game in order to save his family's lives.

Tarek and his mother Ghaydaa number among the tens of thousands of refugees crossing the border from Palestine, having been separated from Tarek's father amidst the chaos of the Six Day War. They ultimately settle at the Harir refugee camp, a makeshift home for a new generation displaced by conflict. Tarek dreams of being reunited with his father, and struggles to adapt to a new life far away from all he previously knew.

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 ...

Salvo, un despiadado sicario de la mafia siciliana, cambia sus prioridades después de verse involucrado en una sangrienta emboscada.

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.

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.

The night of the 31st of December, in the middle of the fireworks, a group of international ecologists blows up the biggest steelworks of Europe.

En un pequeño pueblo de Oriente Medio, la tradición exige que las mujeres vayan a buscar agua, bajo un sol ardiente, a la fuente que nace en lo alto de una montaña. Leila, una joven casada, propone a las demás mujeres una huelga de sexo: no mantendrán relaciones sexuales hasta que los hombres colaboren con ellas en el transporte del agua hasta la aldea.

Film semibiográfico, dividido en cuatro episodios históricos, que narra la historia de una familia (mi familia) desde 1948 hasta la actualidad. La película está inspirada en los diarios de mi padre, empezando por cuando él era un luchador de la resistencia en 1948, y las cartas de mi madre a familiares que eran forzados a abandonar el país desde entonces. Combinados con mis memorias de ellos y con ellos, la película intenta retratar la vida diaria de aquellos palestinos que permanecen en su país y que fueron etiquetados como "árabe-isralíes", viviendo como minoría en su propia tierra.

A young man, who feels constrained living with his father takes drastic measures to liberate himself.

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)

"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.

Documental producido por James Cameron (Titanic). ¿Se ha encontrado la tumba de Jesús? En 1980 se descubrió una tumba, a medio camino entre Jerusalén y Belén. Dentro de la misma se encontraron diez osarios (pequeños féretros de piedra caliza), seis de los cuales tenían inscripciones. En una de ellas se podía leer: "Jesús, hijo de José". El descubrimiento se mantuvo en secreto.

Una banda compuesta por miembros de la policía egipcia se dirige a Israel para tocar en la ceremonia inaugural de un centro de artes árabe, sólo para encontrarse perdidos en la ciudad equivocada.

A Palestinian school teacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with a blossoming relationship with a volunteer worker and his emotional support for a student.