Insidious: The Red Door / Insidious 5 (2023)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
The Lamberts must go deeper into The Further than ever before to put their demons to rest once and for all.
Starring: Ty Simpkins, Patrick Wilson, Sinclair Daniel, Hiam Abbass, Rose Byrne
Director: Patrick Wilson
Insyriated / In Syria (2017)
Drama | War
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.
Starring: Hiam Abbass, Diamand Bou Abboud, Juliette Navis, Mohsen Abbas, Moustapha Al Kar, Alissar Kaghadou, Ninar Halabi, Jihad Sleik, Elias Khatter
Director: Philippe Van Leeuw
The Sense of Wonder / Le goût des merveilles (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even if he's not really wounded. It turns out that he has mental disorders and that they can help each other much more than they thought.
Starring: Virginie Efira, Benjamin Lavernhe, Lucie Fagedet, Léo Lorléac'h, Hervé Pierre, Hiam Abbass, Laurent Bateau
Director: Éric Besnard
Azur et Asmar / Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest (2006)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Once upon a time, there were two children who had the same nanny: Azur, blonde and blue- eyed, son of the lord of the castle, and Asmar, dark-skinned and black-eyed, the nurse's child. Brought up like brothers, the children are suddenly torn apart. But Azur, haunted by the legend of the Fairy of the Djinn which his nanny used to tell him, intends to find it in lands beyond the seas. When they grow up, the two foster brothers each go separate ways in search of the fairy. Daring rivals, they find magic lands in a medieval Maghreb, full of dangers and enchantments.
Starring: Cyril Mourali, Karim M'Riba, Hiam Abbass, Patrick Timsit, Rayan Mahjoub, Abdelsselem Ben Amar
Director: Michel Ocelot
La source des femmes / The Source (2011)
Comedy | Drama
A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favors if their men refuse to fetch water from a remote well.
Starring: Leila Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi, Hiam Abbass, Saleh Bakri, Biyouna
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Dialogue avec mon jardinier / Conversations with My Gardener (2007)
Comedy | Drama
A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men…
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Fanny Cottençon, Alexia Barlier, Hiam Abbass, Élodie Navarre
Director: Jean Becker
Paradise Now (2005)
Crime | Drama | Thriller | War
The story places two close friends, Palestinians Said and Khaled, recruited by an extremist group to perpetrate a terrorist attack in Tel-Aviv, blowing up themselves. However, things go wrong and both friends must separate in the border. One of them, maintaining in his purpose of carry the attack to the end, and the other will have his doubts about it.
Starring: Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Hiam Abbass, Mohammad Bustami
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea / Une bouteille à la mer (2011)
Drama
Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. They must endure an explosive situation that is not of their choosing at an age where young people are falling in love and taking their place in adult life. A bottle thrown in the sea and a correspondence by email nurture the slender hope that their relationship might give them the strength to confront this harsh reality to grapple with it, and thereby ever so slightly change it. Only 60 miles separate them but how many bombings, check-points, sleepless nights and bloodstained days stand between them?
Starring: Agathe Bonitzer, Mahmud Shalaby, Hiam Abbass
Director: Thierry Binisti
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The Visitor (2007)
Crime | Drama | Music | Romance
Walter (Richard Jenkins) is a disaffected college professor who has been drifting aimlessly through his life. When, in a chance encounter on a trip into New York, Walter discovers a couple has taken up residence in his apartment in the city, he develops an unexpected and profound connection to them that will change his life forever. As challenges arise for his tenants Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) and Zainab (Danai Gurira), Walter finds himself compelled to help his new friends, and rediscovers a passion he thought he had lost long ago.
Starring: Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira, Marian Seldes
Director: Tom McCarthy
I am Slave (2010)
Thriller
Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer,the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia,daughter of champion wrestler Bah,is abducted from her Sudanese village in the Nubar Mountains by pro-government Arab militia and sold into slavery to a woman in Khartoum,who beats her for touching her daughter. After six years she is sent to London,where her name is changed,but her miserable life of servitude continues. Her passport is taken and she is told that her father will die if she goes to the authorities. Fortunately she meets a sympathetic person who seems to offer her the hope of escape and reunion with Bah,back in Sudan. For all the film's optimism an end title states that there are around 5,000 'slave' workers currently in Britain.
Starring: Wunmi Mosaku, Isaach De Bankolé, Lubna Azabal, Yigal Naor, Hiam Abbass, Nonso Anozie
Director: Gabriel Range
