Hiam Abbass
3) Amreeka
Publisher
Virgil Films and Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
An Arab woman and her son immigrate to the United States, and while the teenager adjusts to his new school his mother tries to find a job in a small town in Illinois.
4) The visitor
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Walter Vale is a widower who teaches economics at a Connecticut university. He lives alone and is no longer motivated by his work. In New York to present a paper at a conference, he goes to the apartment that he has not visited in some time, but has kept since his wife was alive, only to discover a young couple living there. Despite their great cultural differences, Walter befriends Tarek, a Syrian citizen and drummer, and gradually builds a friendship...
5) Free zone
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In Israel, an American woman, a Jewish woman, and a Palestinian woman are brought together by circumstances, affecting each others lives permanently.
8) Lemon tree
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009
Language
עברית
Description
A drama based on the true story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemon tree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Ambushed by his rebellious son Kendall at the end of Season two, Logan Roy begins Season Three in a perilous position, scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances. Tensions rise as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson looms ever closer, provoking existential angst and division among the Roys in the fourth and final season of Jesse Armstrong's Emmy-winning drama series. As the siblings anticipate the prospect of this seismic merger, the ensuing power struggle finds them grappling with what their lives will look like after the deal and weighing a future where their cultural and political...
Author
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A hitman is a mysterious loner. Getting his instructions at the airport before leaving for Madrid, he is told simply to go to a café and look for the violin. Further instructions come from various people he meets along the way and each is a part of his dangerous mission. He uses a coded greeting and exchanges matchboxes, one of which contains a curious code which the hitman simply eats. He prefers two cups of espresso served in separate cups and...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Power, politics, and money are all in the family in this bitingly funny series about a highly dysfunctional dynasty. With aging, uber-wealthy patriarch Logan Roy, CEO of one of the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerates, considering retirement as he deals with health concerns, each of his four grown children follows a personal agenda.
13) The visitor
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Lonely widower Walter befriends the immigrant couple who unwittingly leased his New York apartment, and fights for them when they are threatened with deportation.
14) Miral
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After being raised in an orphanage by a woman committed to peace and education, a young Palestinian woman finds herself struggling with her conscience during the Arab-Israeli conflict.
15) In Syria
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2018
Language
Arabic
Description
"A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home. This nerve-wracking study of life in Damascus won an Audience Award at Berlinale."--from Imbd.com.