Makram Khoury

Directed with equal parts humor and humanity by Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis, The Syrian Bride is set on the sun-baked border between Israel and Syria, a no man's land that the eponymous bride must cross in order to meet her anxious groom. (Film Forum)

Amos Gitai's beautiful new film is a quietly sweeping movie about intersected lives in transit. (New Yorker Films)

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. Based on a real-life incident, the screenplay for this slapstick comedy-drama was co-written by a policeman... (imdb)

A drama based on the true story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemontree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down. (imdb)

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

With the story of the Israel/Palestine-conflict as a contextual backdrop, we are shown and told the story of four palestinian women. It's all centered around Dar Al-Tifl - a school and home for palestinian orphans in Israel. Miral - one of the girls - has to carry the weight of her people, her history and her family on her shoulders, as she grows up with terrorism, Intifada, civil war and political conflict. Can she maintain a individual ambition in all this?

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. (imdb)

Exploration of the inner workings of Saddam Hussein's family and his relationship with his closest advisers.

Tells the story of a Jewish family in Iraq during the last days of that community, in 1950, through the eyes of the young son, Cabi.

Based on the Armenian Genocide. A young man by the name of Nazareth Manoogian gets deported from his native village of Mardin. After the deportations, Manoogian learns that his daughters may be alive. He travels to various parts of the world in search for them (en.wikipedia.org)

From Israel's most important filmaker, CARMEL is Amos Gitai's (KADOSH, KIPPUR) deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary techniques, Gitai links his family history to ancient history. (Anonymous)

Based on the international best-seller by Amos Oz, A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS is Oz's love letter to his mother Fania (Natalie Portman), who struggles with post-war realities while raising her son in Jerusalem at the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. Dealing with a married life of unfulfilled promises and integration in a foreign land, Fania battles depression and can only escape in a world of daydreams. (thefilmcatalogue.com)

An IDF officer falls in love with a Palestinian widow in the West Bank of the 1980's. Tensions rise as their peers begin to react to their budding relationship.

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. (imdb)

A CIA interrogator is lured into a ruse that puts London at risk of a biological attack. (imdb)

On the first day back after the summer holidays, the grand imam collapses and dies in front of his students in a prestigious university in Cairo. This marks the start of a ruthless battle for influence to take his place.

Follows a Jewish-British girl who is moved from England to Jerusalem for a new start that can help her heal from the death of her mother, but in the way she meets with the ghost of a Palestinian girl who was separated from her family.

An elderly Greek man and his Hassidic rapper son embark on a journey with absurd encounters, which ultimately leads them to a final confrontation of father and son. (imdb)

A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Gypsy girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore nature, mysticism and what their future holds, while learning to live with the surrounding brutality c. 1990.

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. (imdb)