Maria Zreik

Maria Zreik

Born: December 29, 1991
in Haifa, Palestine
Maria Zreik is a Palestinian actress. She made her debut in VILLA TOUMA, which earned her the Best Actress Award at the Reggio Calabria Film Festival, as well as putting her in the spotlight of Palestinian cinema. Since then, she has appeared in several feature films, TV series, ads, and theatre plays, including the lead role in AVE MARIA, which earned an Oscar nomination in 2016.

In 2017, Maria was selected as part of Screen International's "Arab Stars of Tomorrow" in association with the Dubai International Film Festival, and was nominated for the Muhr Feature Award for Best Actress.

Aside from acting, Maria holds a bachelor's degree in Law.

Movies for Maria Zreik...

A Gaza Weekend
Title: A Gaza Weekend
Character: Nuhad
Released: September 10, 2022
Type: Movie
Israel is sealed off after the outbreak of a deadly virus and Gaza has become the safest place in the region, leaving a British journalist and his Israeli girlfriend trapped on the wrong side of the border. With no one else to turn to, they must entrust two Palestinian street merchants who promise a way out in exchange for much needed cash. What follows is a hilarious culture clash comedy-adventure as the couple desperately try everything to get back home.
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The Translator
Title: The Translator
Character: Hekma
Released: October 13, 2021
Type: Movie
A Syrian exile living in Australia returns when his brother is taken into custody by the Assad regime in 2011.
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Laila in Haifa
Title: Laila in Haifa
Character: Laila
Released: September 1, 2021
Type: Movie
The film was shot entirely in a nightclub, with an adjoining contemporary art gallery, whose customers are both Israelis and Palestinians, in one of Israel’s most open cities, Haifa. A long night in a place where the most diverse people meet: Jews, Muslims, gays, heterosexuals, transvestites; and three women, who in that multifaceted microcosm, a gathering peaceful hideout, can find shelter from male bullying and arrogance.
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Title: The Spy
Character: Saliha
Released: September 6, 2019
Type: TV
In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.
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Give Up the Ghost
Title: Give Up the Ghost
Character: Salam
Released: August 29, 2019
Type: Movie
Salam's dream of becoming a mother shatters when she finds out that she is unable to have children with her husband.
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Maryam
Title: Maryam
Character: Maryam
Released: March 22, 2019
Type: Movie
A hotshot reporter sees his morals take over after he meets a young, damaged prostitute shortly after World War II, changing his life forever.
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In His Place
Title: In His Place
Character: Mira
Released: June 14, 2018
Type: Movie
A complicated and nonliteral Jewish film about feelings the name for which has not yet been invented. A friend of the family in which the wife died in labour loved her more than life itself, although he will never say it out loud. He gladly agrees to babysit the child for a day and brings her home, where he is suddenly faced with resentment from his relatives. This multifigured film with beautiful unspoken truths talks about widowhood of other people and oneself, about others’ children who can be dearer than the yet unborn children of one’s own, and about love that does not follow the loved one into the grave.
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Wajib
Title: Wajib
Character: Amal
Released: August 20, 2017
Type: Movie
After years abroad in Italy, Shadi returns to his native Nazareth. But this is no spectacular homecoming. He's back somewhat begrudgingly to honour his "wajib" (or duty) to hand out invitations to his sister's wedding with his father. The simmering tension between the two — who are often stuck in a car, more often than not in traffic — builds, exposing the sometimes-comic chasms that exist between men who live in different worlds but share an unshakable bond.
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Between Worlds
Title: Between Worlds
Character: Amal
Released: October 11, 2016
Type: Movie
Bina (46), religious woman from Jerusalem, arrives panic-stricken at the hospital after her son Oliel (25) was severely injured in a stabbing attack. This is the first time she sees him since he became secular and lost contact with the family. Her husband, Meir (50) comes later only after their daughter Ester’s (28) insistence. At the hospital, Bina meets Amal (24). While Meir searches for answers to revive Oliel, the two despondent women bond with one another. However, Amal hides a secret from Bina and Meir. While waiting for Oliel’s revival, they will learn about truth, faith, understanding, acceptance, and love that can and maybe should replace fear of the unknown.
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Ave Maria
Title: Ave Maria
Character: Sr. Marie
Released: May 18, 2015
Type: Movie
The silent routine of 5 Nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent just as the Sabbath comes into effect.
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Villa Touma
Title: Villa Touma
Character: Badia Touma
Released: September 6, 2014
Type: Movie
Three unmarried aristocratic Christian sisters from Ramallah have shut themselves in their villa clinging desperately to their former glory, until their orphan niece, Badia, walks into their life and turns their world upside down.