Saleh Bakri
1) Grasshoppers
Author
Language
English
Description
Discovering all their neighbors left for winter, two star-crossed lovers hatch a plan to ditch work and visit every empty house for a drink. But soon, their idyllic life becomes uprooted for good.
2) Salvo
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
After murdering a man, Salvo, a ruthless Sicilian hit man, discovers the man's sister, a young blind girl, witnessed the whole thing. Haunted by their brief exchange, the two will attempt to navigate their dangerous next steps side by side.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Subtitled “Chronicle of a Present Absentee,” this humorous, heartbreaking film (the final installment in a trilogy that includes Chronicle of a Disappearance and Divine Intervention) is set among the Israeli Arab community and shot largely in homes and places in which Suleiman’s family once lived. Inspired by his father’s diaries, letters his mother sent to family members who had fled the Israeli occupation, and the director’s own recollections,...
4) The Present
Publisher
Premium Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Arabic
Formats
Description
Jordan, 1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope. In Jordan, a different kind of change is underway as tens of thousands of refugees pour across the border from Palestine. Having been separated from his father in the chaos of war, Tarek, and his mother Ghaydaa, are amongst this latest wave of refugees. Placed in temporary refugee camps made up of tents and prefab houses...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Arabic
Description
Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with the commands of the demanding customers, they hire Youssef. The talented apprentice shows an utmost dedication in learning the art of embroidery and tailoring from Halim. Slowly Mina realizes how much her husband is moved by the presence of the young man.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Arabic
Description
In the not-so-distant future, the free-spirited Badri family have escaped the toxic pollution and social unrest of Beirut by seeking refuge in an idyllic mountain home. Without warning, the government starts to build a garbage landfill right outside their fence, intruding on their domestic utopia and bringing the trash and corruption of a whole country to their doorstep. As the landfill rises, so does tension in the household, revealing a long-simmering...
8) My Zoe
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following a divorce, geneticist Isabelle is trying to rebuild her life. She has a new boyfriend and plans to revitalize her career. But ex-husband James can't accept this and makes her life difficult as they co-parent their daughter Zoe. When a tragedy strikes, the already broken family's world is shattered, and Isabelle decides to take the girl's fate into her own hands.
9) Salvo
Series
Film Movement volume 12, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
A hitman for the Sicilian Mafia, SALVO is solitary, cold and ruthless. When he sneaks into a house on an assignment, he discovers Rita, an innocent young blind girl who must stand by powerlessly while her brother is assassinated. What follows is an intense exchange fueled by adrenaline and fear between the killer and his witness, one that changes their two lives in an instant. The darkness is lifted from Rita’s eyes just as SALVO decides, against...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
עברית
Description
The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel from Egypt for a cultural event. Once there, they find the expected delegation is not there to meet them. Arrangements to get to their destination of Petah Tiqva have not been taken care of either. They find their own ride and arrive instead at the remote town of Beit Hatikva. Stuck there until the next morning's bus, the band, lead by the repressed Tawfiq Zacharaya, gets help from the worldly...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Arabic
Description
A humorous, heartbreaking film that explores life among the Israeli Arab community, shot largely in homes and places in which Elia Suleiman's family once lived. Inspired by his father's diaries, letters his mother sent to family members who had fled the Israeli occupation, and the director's own recollections, the film recounts the saga of the filmmaker's family in subtly hilarious vignettes.
12) The blue caftan
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Arabic
Description
Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco's oldest medinas. To keep up with the commands of the demanding customers, they hire Youssef. Slowly Mina realizes how much her husband is moved by the presence of the young man.
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Arabic
Description
Soraya, born in Brooklyn in a working class community of Palestinian refugees, discovers that her grandfather's savings were frozen in a bank account in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948. Direct, stubborn, and determined to reclaim what is hers, she fulfills her life-long dream of "returning" to Palestine. Slowly she is taken apart by the reality around her and is forced to confront her own anger. She meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition,...
14) Grasshoppers
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discovering all their neighbors left for winter, two star-crossed lovers hatch a plan to ditch work and visit every empty house for a drink. But soon, their idyllic life becomes uprooted for good.
Publisher
July August
Pub. Date
2007
Language
עברית
Description
A small Egyptian police band arrives in Israel to play at an initiation ceremony. Whether due to bureaucracy or bad luck, they are left stranded at the airport. They try to manage on their own, only to find themselves in a desolate, small Israeli town, somewhere in the heart of the desert.
16) My Zoe
Author
Language
English
Description
After an unexpected tragedy strikes, a divorced geneticist looks to protect her daughter by taking the young girl's fate into her own hands.
17) Alam
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Arabic
Description
"Despite being part of a young generation of Palestinian Arabs whose families chose to stay and challenge the Israeli state after Al-Nakba, 17-year-old Tamer and his friends are just like any other group of teenage boys. When a beautiful new student named Maysaa' joins their class, Tamer immediately falls for her and is drawn into her political activism. Together they join fellow classmate, Safwat, in an operation to covertly raise the Palestinian...