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Hiam Abbass

Hiam Abbass

Born in occupied Palestine. French actress of Palestinian descent
November 30, 1960 (63 years old)
U.S. 2023. Horror by Patrick Wilson with Patrick Wilson, Ty Simpkins, Sinclair Daniel. A father and his college-educated son see their lives turn into a nightmare when repressed demons from the past come back to haunt them.
Runtime: 107 min.
14A

Bye Bye Tiberias

V.O.: Bye Bye Tibériade
Fr. 2023. Documentary by Lina Soualem with Hiam Abbass. Years after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Hiam Abbass has returned, accompanied by her daughter.
Runtime: 82 min
U.S. 2022. Horror by David Bruckner with Jamie Clayton, Goran Visnjic, Odessa A’zion. A young woman comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.
Pal. 2020. Sentimental drama by Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser with Salim Dau, Hiam Abbass, Maisa Abd Elhadi. In Gaza, a 60-year-old fisherman finds a statue of Apollo in his nets that gives him the courage to approach the seamstress he is in love with.
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 2019. Animation by Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec. Under the Taliban regime in Kabul, a female prison guard comes to the aid of a young painter who is about to be executed for the accidental murder of her husband.
Runtime: 81 min.

A Syrian Family

V.O.: Insyriated
Bel. 2017. Drama by Philippe Van Leeuw with Hiam Abbass, Diamand Bou Abboud, Juliette Navis. In war-torn Syria, a day in the life of a family holed up in their apartment in a building emptied of all its other tenants.
Runtime: 85 min.
U.S. 2017. Science-fiction by Denis Villeneuve with Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas. In a dying world, a detective assigned to hunt bioengineered slaves leads an investigation involving one of his predecessors who disappeared 30 years ago.
Runtime: 163 min.

Foreign Body

V.O.: Corps étranger
Fr. 2016. Drama by Raja Amari with Sarra Hannachi, Hiam Abbass, Salim Kechiouche. In Lyon, an undocumented Tunisian woman revolts when her boss, a widow of Arab origin, tries to arrange a threesome with her brother's friend.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 2015. Sentimental drama by Éric Besnard with Virginie Efira, Benjamin Lavernhe, Lucie Fagedet. The complicated relationship between a widowed mother, struggling to keep the family farm, and an autistic boy, whom she has taken into her home after hitting him with her car.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 2014. Crime drama by Olivier Panchot with Jalil Lespert, Tcheky Karyo, Hiam Abbass.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 2014. Biblical drama by Ridley Scott with Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Maria Valverde. Learning at the death of his adoptive father that he is Jewish, Moses forces his half-brother Ramses to let his people go, kept in slavery by the Egyptians for 400 years.
Runtime: 150 min.
Mar. 2013. Drama by Laïla Marrakchi with Morjana Alaoui, Nadine Labaki, Lubna Azabal. In Morocco, an actress mostly hired to play terrorist roles in American series is reunited with her Muslim family for her father's funeral.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 2013. Sentimental comedy by Ghazi Albuliwi, Bandar Albuliwi with Ghazi Albuliwi, Hiam Abbass.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 2012. Drama by Hiam Abbass with Hiam Abbass, Hafsia Herzi, Makram Khoury. A family in Galilee, caught between Israel and war-torn Lebanon, is torn apart after a bomb puts their patriarch in a coma.
Runtime: 88 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
Bel. 2012. Drama by Kadija Leclere with Hiam Abbass, Hafsia Herzi.
Runtime: 100 min.

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

V.O.: Une Bouteille dans la mer de Gaza
Can. 2011. Dramatic comedy by Thierry Binisti with Agathe Bonitzer, Mahmoud Shalabi, Hiam Abbass. Following a suicide bombing near her home, an Israeli teenager in search of answers begins a correspondence with a young Palestinian.
Runtime: 99 min.

The Source

V.O.: La Source des femmes
Fr. 2011. Mores drama by Radu Mihaileanu with Leïla Bekhti, Saleh Bakri, Biyouna. The women of an isolated Maghrebian village declare a sex strike until the men help them fetch water from a distant source.
Runtime: 124 min.
Fr. 2010. Social drama by Julian Schnabel with Freida Pinto, Hiam Abbass, Yasmine Al Masri. In Israel, the opposing positions of a peaceful woman who founded an orphanage for Palestinian children, and one of her students who has been influenced by her terrorist lover.
Runtime: 112 min.

Persecution

V.O.: Persécution
Fr. 2009. Psychological drama by Patrice Chéreau with Romain Duris, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jean-Hugues Anglade. A young construction worker is chased by a man madly in love with him who refuses to give up the possibility of a requited love.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 2009. Drama by Cherien Dabis with Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass. With the war in Iraq just beginning, a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son emigrate to the United States, where their integration proves difficult.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 2009. by Dima El-Horr with Hiam Abbass.
Runtime: 85 min.

Lemon Tree

V.O.: Etz Limon
Isr. 2008. Social drama by Eran Riklis with Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman, Rona Lipaz-Michael. A Palestinian widow opposes the cutting of her lemon trees to ensure the safety of an Israeli minister who has come to live across the street from her plantation.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 2008. Crime drama by Stéphanie Duvivier with Marie-Laure Descoureaux, Abdelhafid Métalsi, Olivier Marchal. A police lieutenant is attracted to a young and ambitious trainee of North African origin, while they are trying to dismantle a major drug trafficking operation.
Runtime: 95 min.

Spy(ies)

V.O.: Espion(s)
Fr. 2008. Spy drama by Nicolas Saada with Guillaume Canet, Géraldine Pailhas, Archie Panjabi. In London, a young thief is forced by the French and British secret services to seduce the wife of an industrialist associated with Syrian terrorists.
Runtime: 99 min.

Conversations With My Gardener

V.O.: Dialogue avec mon jardinier
Fr. 2007. Dramatic comedy by Jean Becker with Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Fanny Cottençon. A Parisian painter moves to his family home in the countryside and hires a gardener who turns out to be a childhood friend.
Runtime: 108 min.
U.S. 2007. Dramatic comedy by Tom McCarthy with Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman. The life of a widowed and unmotivated Connecticut professor is turned upside down when an illegal immigrant couple is discovered in his New York apartment.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 2006. Animation by Michel Ocelot. In the Middle Ages, two boys raised as brothers, one the son of a squire and the other the son of a nursemaid, set out to find a fairy.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 2006. Biblical drama by Catherine Hardwicke with Keisha Castle-Hugues, Oscar Isaac, Shohreh Aghdashloo. The extraordinary circumstances surrounding the birth of Jesus.
Runtime: 101 min.

Paradise Now

V.O.: Al-Jenna-An
Pal. 2005. Drama by Hany Abu-Assad with Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal. Two Palestinian friends, mechanics in Nablus, are assigned to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
Runtime: 90 min.
Isr. 2005. Drama by Amos Gitaï with Hanna Laslo, Natalie Portman, Hiam Abbass. The fates of three women from different backgrounds intersect in a free zone in Jordan.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Syrian Bride

V.O.: Hacala Hasurit
Isr. 2004. Social drama by Eran Riklis with Hiam Abbass, Makram J. Khoury, Clara Khoury. Various obstacles arise on the day of the wedding of a young Druze woman from the Golan Heights to a Syrian TV star.
Runtime: 97 min.
Fr. 2003. Psychological drama by Moufida Tlatli with Hiam Abbass, Dorra Zarrouk, Hichem Rostom. In the early stages of menopause, a Tunisian teacher becomes depressed by the beauty of her 18-year-old daughter.
Runtime: 90 min.

A Loving Father

V.O.: Aime ton père
Fr. 2002. Psychological drama by Jacob Berger with Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Depardieu, Sylvie Testud. On his way to Sweden to receive the Nobel Prize, a writer is intercepted by his son who wants to settle old disputes with him.
Runtime: 103 min.

Tar Angel

V.O.: L'Ange de goudron
Can. 2001. Social drama by Denis Chouinard with Zinedine Soualem, Catherine Trudeau, Rabah Aït Ouyahia. An Algerian immigrant goes in search of his son, a young anarchist activist who has fled to northern Quebec.
Runtime: 99 min.
Tun. 2001. Dramatic comedy by Raja Amari with Hiam Abbass, Hend El Fahem, Maher Kamoun. From a traditionalist family, a widow asserts herself by discovering the pleasures of belly dancing in a Tunisian cabaret club.
Fr. 1998. Mores drama by Jean-Pierre Vergne with Jean-Pierre Bouvier, Delphine Rich, Claudine Wilde. A married professor has an affair with a young colleague during a trip to Venice with his students.
Runtime: 90 min.

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