Makram J. Khoury

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.

Syrian director Ehab Tarabieh’s Israeli-German co-production The Taste Of Apples Is Red which is set against the background of the director’s native Golan Heights and revolves around two brothers who are reunited after 47 years apart.

Three religions. Two men. One mission. Ben has gone off into the desert. In order to escape the matchmaking attempts of his family in Jerusalem, he agrees to fly to Alexandria to save what was once the largest Jewish community in the world, which is desperately short of a tenth man to celebrate Passover. When Ben misses his flight and is subsequently thrown off a bus in the Sinai Desert, a grumpy Bedouin in search of his lost camel becomes Ben’s only hope.

The film was shot entirely in a nightclub, with an adjoining contemporary art gallery, whose customers are both Israelis and Palestinians, in one of Israel’s most open cities, Haifa. A long night in a place where the most diverse people meet: Jews, Muslims, gays, heterosexuals, transvestites; and three women, who in that multifaceted microcosm, a gathering peaceful hideout, can find shelter from male bullying and arrogance.

Rodeado de mentiras y engaños, el veterano agente secreto Adereth (Ben Kingsley) se da cuenta de que no es capaz de distinguir entre sus aliados y los enemigos. Tras detectar que el sistema de producción de armas químicas sirias está corrupto, y después de afrontar un impactante secuestro, Adereth decide ir en busca de respuestas. En el camino conocerá a Angela (Monica Belluci), que se convertirá en una pista clave en su investigación. La hostilidad de sus aliados, junto con el dudoso pasado que lo persigue, deja a Adereth atrapado en una compleja red de desconfianza en este inteligente y apasionante thriller de espías.

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.

Gitai pays homage to Albert Camus and explores the return to Palestinian villages while interjecting texts by Izhar Smilansky, Emile Habibi, Mahmoud Darwish, and Amira Hass.

Gitai pays homage to Albert Camus and explores the return to Palestinian villages while interjecting texts by Izhar Smilansky, Emile Habibi, Mahmoud Darwish, and Amira Hass.

Fifty years after Slow Down by Avraham Heffner won a prize at Venice Film Festival, top alumni of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School challenge the 1968 legendary black and white

Gira en torno a una agente de la CIA, especializada en interrogatorios, que es engañada por un sospechoso, lo que la situará en el centro de una acción terrorista que pretende hacer estallar un arma química en el centro de Londres.

Police officer Kobi Amar and his Region Commander Yehuda Neumann have been partners at the Haifa police force for years, but now, they face a critical turning point in their relationship and those of their families when one is forced to turn against the other. Furthermore, the tumultuous events of the night, following a brutal terror attack, place Kobi and Neumann's moral and professional values at stake, as well as their long dedicated friendship.

Adam conoce a Abulele, un monstruo antiguo, enorme, amistoso e invisible. Cuando una unidad del gobierno de las Fuerzas Especiales llega para capturar a Abulele, Adam tiene que dejar atrás su pasado, para salvar a su amigo, y saber que cuándo realmente amas a alguien, nunca estás solo.

Adaptación de las memorias de Amos Oz, escritor que abogó por una solución entre los dos estados del eterno conflicto entre Israel y Palestina.

Adaptación de las memorias de Amos Oz, escritor que abogó por una solución entre los dos estados del eterno conflicto entre Israel y Palestina.

In October 1995 three French sisters gather in Atlit, Israel to sell the family home. Tensions arise between elders Darel and Cali when Darel proves unwilling to sell. That's when the sisters start seeing apparitions of their dead parents.

In the melting pot of Venice, trade is God. With its ships plying the globe, the city opens its arms to all - as long as they come prepared to do business and there is profit to be made. When the gold is flowing all is well - but when a contract between Bassanio and Shylock is broken, simmering racial tensions boil over. A wronged father, and despised outsider, Shylock looks to exact the ultimate price for a deal sealed in blood.

La historia tiene lugar en la aldea turca de Mardin en 1915: en una noche en la que la policía turca está atrapando a todo hombre armenio, el joven herrero Nazaret es separado de su familia. Años después, tras sobrevivir al horror del genocidio, recibe noticias de que sus hijas gemelas también están vivas. Obsesionado con la idea de encontrarlas, sigue el camino que, ojalá, desemboque en un reencuentro.

Basada en una historia real que narra cómo Afshin Ghaffarian arriesgó todo en el año 2009 para formar una compañia de danza en su país natal, Irán, en medio de los conflictos políticos, las elecciones presidenciales de aquél año y desafiando la prohibición que rige en el país sobre el baile. (FILMAFFINITY)

"Write Down, I am an Arab" tells the story of Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian national poet and one of the most influential writers of the Arab world. His writing shaped Palestinian identity and helped galvanize generations of Palestinians to their cause. Born in the Galilee, Darwish's family fled during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and returned a few years later to a ruined homeland. These early experiences would provide the foundation for a writing career that would come to define an entire nation.

Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.

An elderly Israeli Jew of Greek origins was sent to Greece to represent his town in a town twinning ceremony, however he went instead to search for his friend from the childhood, who saved him from the Holocaust. In meantime he formed a special relationship with young Greek woman, and dealt with the broken relationship with his devout Hasidic son.

Salah, an Israeli-Arab enterpriser, strives to bring happiness for the children of the Arab sector in Israel by opening a new chain of candy stores. 'The Firm', an Israeli corporation headed by Klausner , that controls Israeli candy market, resent Salah on his former business move - taking control over the Israeli market of Turkish coffee. Klausner sees the new business initiative of Salah as a real threat, not only a business one but also a cultural and a political one, even a real challenge against Zionism itself. In a disguise of a Business struggle the story reveals moral dilemmas and a cultural struggle: the Arab businessman trying to integrate in Modern Israel against the dominant Zionist culture.

Ambientada en el siglo XI en Inglaterra, narra la historia de Rob Cole, un joven que se queda huérfano, tras morir su madre por una extraña enfermedad. Decidido a convertirse en médico por la tragedia sufrida, el joven decide ir a Persia a estudiar medicina a las órdenes del sabio doctor Ibn Sina.

An MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or be complicit in making a tense situation even worse?

A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of their daughters, as war rages between Israel and Lebanon. Internal conflicts explode between the family - secrets are revealed and lies are unmasked. The battles between different family members become as merciless as the outside war once their father falls into a coma and inches toward death.

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.

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their nation.

Fortunato, un camionero desencantado y un poco canalla que, durante muchos años, ha transportado Ferraris robados a los Emiratos Árabes, emprende el último viaje, pues ya es hora de que lo releve el joven Marcello, que trabaja desde hace pocos meses en su empresa. Giulio, un dentista de cincuenta años, sufre el lastre de un matrimonio fracasado que lo ha sumido en la depresión. Debe asistir a una conferencia en San Petersburgo en la que no desea participar, pero su colega y amigo Fausto es inflexible: Rusia es el país del sexo fácil y una semana allí es mejor que un año de psicoanálisis.

Salma vive en el pequeño pueblo palestino de Cisjordania, que se encuentra en la Línea Verde que separa Israel de los territorios ocupados. Sus huerto de limoneros es visto como una amenaza a la seguridad de su nuevo vecino, el ministro israelí de Defensa.

A hard-hitting French drama detailing the intersecting destinies of five characters whose lives cross over the current war in Iraq: three young French Arabs who each for a different reason joins a jihadi group to fight against the Americans; a 40-something French woman running an NGO in Baghdad at the outbreak of the war who gets kidnapped and held by the jihadi insurgents; and a mid-level French diplomat who uncovers the corruption of the UN Oil for Food program while gathering evidence to support the French effort to prevent the war.

On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers. Soon after, a mental hospital was built on the ruins. The first patients to be committed were Holocaust survivors. A legend says that to this day, the survivors have been communicating with the ghosts of the village. Forgiveness tells the story of David Adler, a 20-year old American-Israeli who decides to move back to Israel, only to find himself committed to a mental institution that sits on the ruins of a Palestinian village called Deir Yassin. Flashbacks and flashforwards reveal the events that led up to his hospitalization.

Rebecca (Natalie Portman), una joven estadounidense que vive en Jerusalén desde hace unos meses, acaba de romper con su novio. Sube al taxi de Hanna (Hanna Laslo), una mujer israelí que debe ir a Jordania, a la Zona Libre, a recoger una importante cantidad de dinero. Cuando llegan a su destino, Leila (Hiam Abbass), una mujer palestina, les explica que "el Americano" no está y que el dinero ha desaparecido. Una road-movie en Oriente Próximo; la historia de un encuentro inesperado, tres mujeres de culturas diferentes que intentarán, unir sus fuerzas para cambiar el curso de los acontecimientos. Es también el encuentro de religiones y culturas diferentes que nos permitirá comprender la compleja realidad del conflicto.

In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home. Mona's father Hammed is a political activist pro-Syria that is on probation by the Israeli government. His older son Hatten married a Russian woman eight years ago and was banished from Majdal Shams by the religious leaders and his father. His brother Marwan is a wolf trader that lives in Italy. His sister Amal has two teenager daughters and has the intention to join the university, but her marriage with Amin is in crisis. When the family gathers for Mona's wedding, an insane bureaucracy jeopardizes the ceremony.

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.

Ariel es un chico judío francés que viaja a Israel, se hace agente del Mossad, y se encuentra con que su primera misión es robar secretos nucleares… franceses.

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

Two Palestinian lovers, parted during the 60s when he is imprisoned for resisting the Israeli occupation and she sorrowfully emigrates to the US, come together again in Jerusalem some 18 years later. He works for an agricultural aid organization, she is a scholar researching the meaning of sacrifice in Palestinian society. Around them rages the turmoil of the first Intifada.

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?

This Israeli-made film is set along the battle-torn West Bank. Military governor Makram Khouri tries to flush out some fugitive PLO activists by hanging the rotting, stinking carcass of a dead donkey in a village square. Israeli doctor Rami Danon forgets his animosity towards the PLO and, out of compassion, cuts the carcass down. For disobeying Khouri's orders, Danon becomes as much a fugitive as the Palestinians. While in hiding, Danon befriends Arab hermit Tuncel Kurtiz, whose adopted son is a member of the PLO.

Crossover! All the stars of the 80s Israelian Mizrahi Music were brought. He is a rising star at the underground Mizrahi scene, She is an international model. Can they overcome the cultural and social differences in order to live in harmony?

Directed by Nissim Dayan.

Four men whose combined intellect does not reach into the triple digits decide to steal a safe full of foreign currency - not from a local bank, but from the police station.

A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ.