Hiam Abbass
2) The visitor
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
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...
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
While Bethlehem's innocents are being slaughtered under orders from a paranoid King Herod, friendship and trust emerge between Mary and Joseph after he is told in a dream that she speaks truthfully about her miraculous pregnancy.
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
12 videodiscs (ca. 2388 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Power, politics, money. It's all in the family in this Emmy-winning drama series. When the head of one of the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerates considers retiring, a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war as each of his four grown children scheme for control of the company.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
Mona's wedding day may be the saddest day of her life. Once she crosses the border between Israel and Syria to get married, she will never be allowed back to her family in the Golan Heights.
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ana, a directionless Frenchwoman, must return to Israel to find the child she abandoned at birth. Together with her half-brother, an Israeli policeman, she discovers that her now-grown daughter will soon be forcibly evicted from a Gaza Strip settlement. Amid the explosive clashes between soldiers and settlers, can one woman now face the truth about commitment, identity, and a history that can never be buried?
9) Amreeka
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Muna Farah, a Palestinian single mom, struggles to maintain her optimistic spirit in the daily grind of intimidating West Bank checkpoints, the constant nagging of a controlling mother, and the haunting shadows of a failed marriage. Everything changes one day when she receives a letter informing her that her family has been granted a U.S. green card, and she moves with her teenage son to small town Illinois.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Arafat has sex on the brain, but his Palestinian parents see marriage in his future. When a friend proposes a Green Card wedding so an Israeli girl can stay in the U.S., a global conflict finds its way to the living room, and the bedroom.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
10 film reels of 10 on 5 (ca. 102 min., ca. 9,180 ft.) : sd., col. ; 35 mm.
Language
English
Description
Begins with the slaughter of Bethlehem's innocents under orders from a paranoid King Herod. Go back a year to the prophecy that informs Zechariah that his wife, Elizabeth, will bear a child. Elizabeth's cousin, the adolescent Mary, struggles with her family to make ends meet and is promised to the carpenter Joseph. Mary is told by the angel Gabriel that she will carry, while still a virgin, the long-awaited Messiah who will liberate the Jews from...
13) In Syria
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.