Hiam AbbassFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A quintessentially exotic-looking Israeli-born actress who more than fit the bill for generic ethnic roles (particularly Middle Eastern assignments) in Hollywood productions, sloe-eyed and raven-haired Hiam Abbass jump-started her career in her native Europe. Early parts included those of a...Read More

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Disengagement

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Liron Levo, Hiam Abbass, Jeanne Moreau, Barbara Hendricks, Dana Ivgy

Synopsis: Forced Israeli evictions from the Gaza Strip yield tremendous personal strife for a pair of cross-cultural lovers in Disengagement, director Amos Gitai's meditation on the complex relationship between interpersonal and national politics in the Middle East. Juliette Binoche stars as Ana, a woman of Read More

10/9/09
Amreeka

Actors: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Alia Shawkat

Synopsis: A Palestinian single mother and her son resettle in the American Midwest with bittersweet results, in first-time director Cherien Dabis' gentle fish-out-of-water comedy drama Amreeka. Nisreen Faour stars as divorcée Mouna, a resident of the West Bank who works as a local bank manager while raising Read More

9/4/09
The Limits of Control

Actors: Isaach de Bankolé, Hiam Abbass, Gael García Bernal, Paz de la Huerta, Alex Descas

Synopsis: A mysterious loner attempts to successfully complete his criminal mission while operating outside of the law in contemporary Spain. His objectives shrouded in secrecy, the untrusting lone wolf (Isaach de Bankolé) sets out on his latest assignment knowing that the law is never too far behind. Bill Murray Read More

5/1/09
Lemon Tree

Actors: Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Doron Tavory, Tarik Copty

Synopsis: Widow and empty nester Salma Zidane lives on the Palestinian West Bank, in a little house flanked by lemon trees planted by her great grand parents. Unfortunately, when the Israeli minister of defense builds a house adjacent to her own, her lemon trees are deemed a security risk. Salma hires a Read More

4/17/09
Espion(s)

Actors: Vincent Regan, Stephen Rea, Archie Panjabi, Alexander Siddig, Guillaume Canet, Géraldine Pailhas

Synopsis: Vincent Regan stars in this French-language paranoia thriller as Peter Burton, a diabolically brilliant young man. In lieu of pursuing a formal education and a 9-to-5 office job, Peter ankled the standard route to success and now makes his living as a serial thief, lifting the valuables of patrons Read More

1/28/09
Kandisha

Actors: David Carradine, Saïd Taghmaoui, Hiam Abbass, Amira Casar, Michaël Cohen

Synopsis: A woman investigating a bloody killing discovers there might be a metaphysical solution to the crime in this horror story from director Jerome Cohen-Olivar. Nyla Jayde (Amira Casar) is a well-respected lawyer who has been emotionally devastated by the unexpected passing of her child. Trying to Read More

2009
Every Day is a Holiday

Actors: Hiam Abbass, Manal Khader, Raïa Haidar

2009
Azur & Asmar

Actors: Steven Kynman, Nigel Pilkington, Suzanna Nour, Nigel Lambert, Leopold Benedict, Hiam Abbass, Patrick Timsit

Synopsis: Two lifelong friends set off on a remarkable adventure in this animated feature. Azur (Rayan Mahjoub) is an orphaned boy living in 18th century France, where he's being raised by Jenane (Hiam Abbass), a nurse of Arab heritage who cares for the boy alongside her own son, Asmar (Abdelsselem Ben Read More

10/10/08
The Visitor

Actors: Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira, Marian Seldes

Synopsis: A lonesome widower and college economics professor finds his mundane existence suddenly shaken up when he befriends a pair of illegal immigrants, one of whom has recently been threatened with deportation by U.S. immigration authorities, in the sophomore feature from The Station Agent director Tom McCarthy Read More

4/11/08
Human Zoo

Actors: Rie Rasmussen, Nikola Djuricko, Nick Corey, Vojin Cetkovic, Hiam Abbass

Synopsis: Actress and model Rie Rasmussen wrote, directed and stars in this multi-layered drama of a woman's struggle to escape political chaos on two continents. Adria (Rasmussen) is a young Serbian woman who is living in Kosovo in 1999, during the latter days of the civil war and ethnic violence that Read More

2008
Pomegranates and Myrrh

Actors: Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman, Yasmine Al Masri, Ashraf Farah, Yussef Abu Warda

Synopsis: A woman finds herself torn by her feelings for two different men in this drama from the Palestinian Territories. Kamar (Yasmine Elmasri) is an talented dancer who has fallen in love with Zaid (Ashraf Farah), who (like her) is a Christian of Palestinian heritage. Kamar and Zaid are wed, but their Read More

2008
La Fabrique des sentiments

Actors: Elsa Zylberstein, Jacques Bonnaffé, Bruno Putzulu, Hiam Abbass, Anne-Katerine Normant

Synopsis: A successful lawyer, Eloise's life would be complete if only she could find a successful relationship. She signs up for a speed dating program, and what follows is a bizarre and often funny experiment in what happens when seven men and seven women take off on a race to find a significant other. Read More

2008
Police Romance

Actors: Marie-Laure Descoureaux, Abdelhafid Metalsi, Abdelhafid Messaouden, Théo Trifard, Olivier Marchal, Hiam Abbass

Synopsis: A police lieutenant finds her romance with a rookie officer heading towards disaster after being drawn into a gang war beyond their jurisdiction and realizing her passion has taken precedence over her better judgment. There's no denying that Police Lieutenant Emilie Carange (Marie-Laure Read More

2007
Conversations With My Gardener

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Hiam Abbass, Alexia Barlier, Élodie Navarre, Fanny Cottençon

Synopsis: Two men find themselves sharing a lifetime of experiences and observations over the course of a summer in this low-key comedy-drama from France. After the death of his mother, an artist (Daniel Auteuil) well known for his nature studies inherits his family's vacation house in the country. The Read More

2007
The Nativity Story

Actors: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass, Shaun Toub, Alexander Siddig

Synopsis: Australian-born Whale Rider sensation and Oscar nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes stars opposite Oscar Isaac in Lords of Dogtown director Catherine Hardwicke's dramatic account of the Annunciation, and the arduous journey of Mary and Joseph to give birth to baby Jesus. House of Sand and Fog's Shohreh Aghdashloo Read More

12/1/06
Free Zone

Actors: Natalie Portman, Hanna Laslo, Hiam Abbass, Carmen Maura, Makram Khoury

Synopsis: A Jewish-American woman still reeling from her breakup with her Spanish-Israeli fiancée hits the road with a middle-aged Israeli woman, who is looking to collect the 30,000-dollar debt owed to her by her husband's former business partner, and a Palestinian woman, who claims to know the elusive Read More

4/7/06
Munich

Actors: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: Much as Steven Spielberg followed 1993's special-effects blockbuster Jurassic Park with a far more downbeat and personal project later the same year, Schindler's List, in 2005 after tearing up the box office with War of the Worlds the director closed out the year with a powerful and thoughtful Read More

12/23/05
The Syrian Bride

Actors: Hiam Abbass, Makram Khoury, Clara Khoury, Ashraf Barhoum, Eyad Sheety

Synopsis: A family deals with the typical anxieties of a wedding day while also confronting the political turmoil of the Middle East in this drama, a collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers. Hammed (Makram J. Khoury) is a leading political figure in Majdal Shams, a Druze community that has Read More

11/16/05
Paradise Now

Actors: Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Amer Hlehel, Hiam Abbass

Synopsis: Said (Kais Nashef) is a young Palestinian living in Nablus, and working as a mechanic. He gets his friend Khaled (Ali Suliman) a job, but the hot-tempered and impulsive Khaled quickly loses it. Suha (Lubna Azabal), a pretty, well-traveled young woman and the daughter of a well-known "martyr," Read More

10/28/05
Bab el Chams

Actors: Rim Turki, Orwa Nyrabeya, Hiam Abbass, Bassel Khayyat, Nadira Omran

2004
Satin Rouge

Actors: Hiam Abbass, Hend El Fahem, Maher Kamoun, Monia Hichri, Nadra Lamloum

Synopsis: An attractive widow just edging into middle age begins to explore a new side of her personality once she's on her own in this drama from Tunisia. After the death of her husband, Lilia (Hiam Abbass) finds herself at a loss for what to do with her life. Her teenage daughter, Salma (Hend El Fahem) Read More

8/23/02
We Need a Vacation

Actors: Aymen Saïdi, Ibrahim Koma, Nabil El Bouhairi

Synopsis: Two ten-year-old boys from the inner city decide that nobody needs a vacation quite as much as they do, and head for the beach. Having no real money is hardly a concern for kids as resourceful as these two: from flirting with middle-aged women to camping out in the woods, they have every intention Read More

2002
L'ange de goudron

Actors: Zinedine Soualem, Catherine Trudeau, Rabah Ait Ouyahia, Hiam Abbass, Raymond Cloutier

Synopsis: Following up on his directorial debut Clandestins -- about desperate refugees stowing away on a ship -- Denis Chouinard created this taut thriller about immigrants after they have arrived on Canada's shores. Ahmed Kasmi and his family fled Algeria and he is now only a week away from getting his Read More

2001
Vivre au Paradis

Actors: Roschdy Zem, Fadila Belkebla, Omar Bekhaled, Farida Rahouadj, Hiam Abbass

Synopsis: Bourlem Guerdjou directed this French-Belgian-Norwegian-Algerian co-production, a drama set in the Paris suburbs during the early '60s. Algerian immigrant Lakhdar (Roschdy Zem) works at a building site and lives in a corrugated metal hut. Since Lakhdar is literate, he helps others send letters Read More

3/17/99
Haifa

Synopsis: Set in Palestine just before the signing of the peace accord between PLO leader Arafat and Israel's prime minister Rabin, this drama chronicles the ways in which the formal agreement affects the lives of Palestinians living in a tiny, unnamed village on the Gaza Strip. Main characters include the Read More

1996