Maisa Abd Elhadi

Maisa Abd Elhadi

Born: November 15, 1985
in Nazareth, Israel
Maisa Abd Elhadi is a prominent Palestinian actress born in Nazareth, Palestine. She is an actress, known for 3000 Nights (2015), Personal Affairs (2016), The Worthy (2016) and Dégradé (2015), Gaza Mon Amour (2020), and Huda's Salon (2021).

Movies for Maisa Abd Elhadi...

Lyd
Title: Lyd
Released: August 20, 2023
Type: Movie
A sci-fi documentary that follows the rise and fall of Lyd — a 5,000-year-old metropolis that was once a bustling Palestinian town until it was conquered when the State of Israel was established in 1948. As the film unfolds, a chorus of characters creates a tapestry of the Palestinian experience of this city and the trauma left by the massacre and expulsion.
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The Taste of Apples is Red
Title: The Taste of Apples is Red
Character: Muna
Released: September 8, 2022
Type: Movie
In the Druze mountain villages between Syria and Israel, Kamel, a respected sheik, must make an impossible decision between family and duty when his estranged brother returns to the Golan Heights after 47 years in exile.
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Huda's Salon
Title: Huda's Salon
Character: Reem
Released: March 4, 2022
Type: Movie
A woman whose visit to a hair salon turns into a nightmare when she is blackmailed by its owner.
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The Alleys
Title: The Alleys
Character: Hanadi
Released: August 8, 2021
Type: Movie
In a claustrophobic neighborhood where gossip and violence police people's behavior, the lives of residents intertwine and collide as some try to maintain social norms while others try to break them.
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Gaza Mon Amour
Title: Gaza Mon Amour
Character: Leila
Released: June 4, 2021
Type: Movie
Gaza, today. Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works at the market with her daughter Leila. When he discovers an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing nets, Issa hides it, not knowing what to do with this mysterious and potent treasure. Yet deep inside, he feels that this discovery will change his life forever. Strangely, his confidence starts to grow and eventually he decides to approach Siham.
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Title: The Dreamers
Character: Warda
Released: March 11, 2021
Type: TV
Follows three young Palestinian students who travel to Tel Aviv in 2008. They will try to establish a new and free Palestinian community for themselves.
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The Ghosts We Left at Home
Title: The Ghosts We Left at Home
Character: Layla
Released: November 5, 2020
Type: Movie
During a scorching hot summer’s day in Amman, a man prepares for a special meeting. A raw and intimate portrayal of a man in grief, and a city on fire, doomed and in exile, and sinking to hit rock bottom. It plays in the margin of reality, where forces of the masculine and the feminine alternate, merge, attract and repel.
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Title: Baghdad Central
Character: Zahra
Released: February 3, 2020
Type: TV
Shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi ex-policeman Muhsin al-Khafaji has lost everything and is battling daily to keep himself and his sick daughter, Mrouj safe. But when he learns that his estranged elder daughter Sawsan is missing Khafaji is forced into a desperate search to find her.
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In Vitro
Title: In Vitro
Character: Alia
Released: May 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Decades after an eco-disaster engulfs the biblical city of Bethlehem, two scientists from different generations discuss memory, exile and nostalgia in this symbolic speculative fiction.
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A Tramway in Jerusalem
Title: A Tramway in Jerusalem
Released: April 24, 2019
Type: Movie
On a tramway that connects several of Jerusalem's neighborhoods from East to West, a mosaic of people from different religious and ethnic backgrounds are brought together.
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Tel Aviv on Fire
Title: Tel Aviv on Fire
Character: Mariam
Released: August 23, 2018
Type: Movie
Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise - until the soldier and the show's financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle.
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The Angel
Title: The Angel
Character: Mona Marwan
Released: May 15, 2018
Type: Movie
True story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat - while simultaneously Israeli Intelligence's most precious asset of the 20th century. Based on NYT bestselling book 'The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel' by Uri Bar-Joseph.
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The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
Title: The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
Character: Bisan
Released: March 15, 2018
Type: Movie
The affaire of a married Palestinian man and a married Israeli woman in Jerusalem takes a dangerous political dimension when they are spotted in the wrong place at the wrong time leaving them to deal with more than their broken marriages.
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Personal Affairs
Title: Personal Affairs
Character: Maysa
Released: March 1, 2017
Type: Movie
In Nazareth, an old couple lives wearily to the rhythm of the daily routine. On the other side of the border, in Ramallah, their son Tarek wishes to remain an eternal bachelor, their daughter is about to give birth while her husband lands a movie role and the grandmother loses her head... Between check-points and dreams, frivolity and politics, some want to leave, others want to stay but all have personal affairs to resolve.
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In Between
Title: In Between
Released: November 25, 2016
Type: Movie
The film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, fuck, and choose.
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The Worthy
Title: The Worthy
Character: Gulbin
Released: October 8, 2016
Type: Movie
A visually spectacular dystopian take on an Arab world torn apart by social disorder.
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Dégradé
Title: Dégradé
Character: Wedad
Released: April 27, 2016
Type: Movie
A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heaving with female clients: a bride-to-be, a pregnant woman, a bitter divorcée, a devout woman and a pill-popping addict. But their day of leisure is disrupted when gunfire breaks out across the street. A gangland family has stolen the lion from Gaza’s only zoo, and Hamas has decided it’s time to settle old scores. Stuck in the salon, with the prospect of death drawing ever nearer, the women start to unravel. How will the day end? Will they lose their lives for the sake of “liberating the lion”?
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The Idol
Title: The Idol
Character: HIBA
Released: January 21, 2016
Type: Movie
Mohammed Assaf, an aspiring musician living in Gaza, sets a seemingly impossible goal: to compete on the program "Arab Idol."
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3000 Nights
Title: 3000 Nights
Character: Layal
Released: October 15, 2015
Type: Movie
A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
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Wherever You Go
Title: Wherever You Go
Released: September 16, 2015
Type: Movie
One of the strongest examples of Israeli cinematic storytelling in recent years. Zuhara is on her way to her younger sister’s wedding, when she picks up Neriman, a young Bedouin hitchhiker escaping from an arranged marriage. As she unintentionally becomes an accomplice in Neriman’s struggle, Zuhara must confront her conflicted feelings toward her estrangement from her own family. Director Rony Sasson Angel sensitively evokes moving drama through the characters’ quiet exchanges, while building to a powerful climax. Stars Hila Vidor and Maisa Abed Elhadi make the tension and camaraderie between these two strangers palpable and touching. A deeply-poignant and visually-striking road movie.
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Invisibles
Title: Invisibles
Character: Miriam
Released: October 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Newly discharged from the Israeli Army, Ra'ed, a Bedouin from an unrecognized village in the Negev desert, is determined to save his family's failing herd of sheep, about to be sold. He plans to live off the herd by starting a roadside Bedouin hospitality restaurant.
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The Warren
Title: The Warren
Character: Badra
Released: October 5, 2014
Type: Movie
A dramatization of raid to capture a suspected militant by the Israeli Defense Forces during the Second Intifada into the sprawling maze of the Balata Refugee Camp in Palestine.
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Eyes of a Thief
Title: Eyes of a Thief
Character: Houda
Released: October 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Tareq is released from an Israeli prison and returns to his hometown in Palestine, a place transformed by drastic changes and filled with secrets, to find his daughter. As secrets are uncovered, light is shed on the stifling nature of contemporary Palestinian society, while revealing Tareq’s hidden past. Inspired by true events.
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Title: Metim LeRega
Character: Asma Al-Khalil
Released: July 19, 2014
Type: TV
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The Savior
Title: The Savior
Character: Salome
Released: March 29, 2014
Type: Movie
It is a time when Rome rules the world with the power of life and death in their hands. The province of Roman Palestine is a bubbling cauldron of rebellion and control. And on this greater canvas Luke, narrates a story of wonder, amazement and impact... The world is anticipating this moment in history but no one can imagine God touching His creation in the form of a little baby named Jesus. Much is recorded in the Gospels about Jesus' miraculous birth, to a young virgin named Mary, in Bethlehem, but little is known about his quiet growing up in Nazareth. Joseph, his adopted father, seems to have died well before Jesus turns 30 and begins his ministry.
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Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Title: Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Character: Self
Released: December 14, 2011
Type: Movie
Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard Courant was invited by the Dubai International Film Festival, in the United Arab Emirates. It was an opportunity for him to film many "Cinematons" of personalities from the Arab world and to continue his "Film Notebooks" from which he brought back 7 episodes.
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Habibi
Title: Habibi
Character: Layla
Released: September 4, 2011
Type: Movie
Young lovers Qays and Layla are university students in the West Bank who hail from Khan Yunis in Gaza. He is pursuing a degree in literature and she in engineering, but they are forced to return home before completing their courses. In the more religious and traditional environment of Khan Yunis, their love story can continue only by marrying. Yet Qays, who is a construction worker living in a refugee camp, is too poor to convince Layla’s father that he can provide for his beloved daughter. As the couple struggles to be together, Qays paints verses from the classical poem Majnun Layla all over Khan Yunis, a rebellious act that angers Layla’s father and the local self-appointed moral police.
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The Time That Remains
Title: The Time That Remains
Character: Woman in West Bank Taxi
Released: August 12, 2009
Type: Movie
An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spanning from 1948 until recent times. Combined with intimate memories of each member, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled "Israeli-Arabs," living as a minority in their own homeland.