Clara Khoury

Clara Khoury

Nascimento : 1976-12-29, Haifa, Israel

História

Clara Khoury (born December 29, 1976 in Haifa) is an Israeli Palestinian actress, born into a Palestinian Christian family. Clara works in film, television and theater. She acts in Arabic, Hebrew, English and French.

Perfil

Clara Khoury

Filmes

Laila in Haifa
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.
Amsterdam to Anatolia
Elissa
Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf
Amani
A teenager in Arkansas searches for identity in the headscarf and a motorcycle in the aftermath of her father's imprisonment.
A Letter to a Friend in Gaza
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.
Inheritance
Salma
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.
Lipstikka
Lara
Duas mulheres reúnem-se em Londres, onde discutem os detalhes de um evento que mudou a vida e que ocorreu quando eram adolescentes em Jerusalém.
Rede de Mentiras
Bessam's wife
Roger Ferris trabalha para o serviço secreto dos Estados Unidos, realizando serviços em locais perigosos ao redor do planeta. Seu principal contato na CIA é o veterano Ed Hoffman, que costuma realizar seu serviço usando o laptop e o telefone. Hoffman está agora no encalço de um líder terrorista, que planejou a explosão de uma série de bombas. Para desmascará-lo Ferris precisará se embrenhar em um mundo pouco conhecido, onde percebe cada vez mais que a confiança é, ao mesmo tempo, perigosa e o único meio de sair vivo da situação.
Love Life
Schira
A married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui conceals a secret desire for vengeance.
Forgiveness
Lila
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.
A Noiva Síria
Mona
Colinas de Golam, na fronteira entre Israel e Síria. Está em andamento a preparação das bodas de uma jovem drusa, que mora no lado israelense, com um astro de TV também druso, mas que mora do lado sírio. A noiva precisa atravessar a fronteira, mas a burocracia do procedimento atrapalha a realização do casamento.
Maktub
The body of a middle aged woman is discovered and a promising young police officer is assigned to this case. His name is Ataf and he is of Druze origin - a small sect of people whose religion is secret and who hold a firm belief in reincarnation. Through the course of his investigation, Ataf begins to experience some strange nightmares that carry him to his past. Soon after he begins his search for a clue to these nightmares, and realises that the murder case and his dreams are somehow connected. More than that - the connection has to do with his former life that ended tragically when his present life began.
Rana's Wedding
Rana
A Palestinian girl of 17 who wants to get married to the man of her own choosing. Rana wakes up one morning to an ultimatum delivered by her father: she must either choose a husband from a preselected list of men, or she must leave Palestine for Egypt with her father by 4:00 that afternoon.