Salim Daw

Salim Daw

Born: September 1, 1950
in Bi'ina, Israel

Movies for Salim Daw...

Let It Be Morning
Title: Let It Be Morning
Character: Tarek
Released: October 1, 2021
Type: Movie
Sami was at his parents’ house back in the village, when peace began to break out. He had gone there with his wife and kid for his brother's wedding . Back in the village people told him, “There’s no place like home,” and asked when he’d be coming back, but deep down Sami knew that he had forgotten. You can’t be away for that long without forgetting something.
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Gaza Mon Amour
Title: Gaza Mon Amour
Character: Issa
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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Oslo
Title: Oslo
Character: Ahmed Qurei
Released: May 29, 2021
Type: Movie
The true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but committed group of Israelis, Palestinians and one Norwegian couple that led to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords.
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Kiss Me Before It Blows Up
Title: Kiss Me Before It Blows Up
Character: Ibrahim Hamati
Released: September 10, 2020
Type: Movie
A subversive love story between clashing cultures and families, KISS ME BEFORE IT BLOWS UP is a romantic misadventure crossing all borders. When two generations of Israeli women fall for a German woman and a Palestinian man, chaos follows. What happens with lovers who don't fit but do belong together?
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The Dead of Jaffa
Title: The Dead of Jaffa
Released: July 29, 2019
Type: Movie
With their father in prison and mother dead, three children from the West Bank are smuggled into Israel and taken to the house of their distant relatives, George and Rita, in Jaffa. Rita, who longs for a child, embraces them as her own but George is wary of the grave legal implications their actions might have. Meanwhile, a British film director recreates 1947 Jaffa outside George and Rita’s house. When their present-day reality meets the historical events that led to it, tragedy ensues.
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Problémy prvního světa
Title: Problémy prvního světa
Released: May 2, 2019
Type: Movie
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Tel Aviv on Fire
Title: Tel Aviv on Fire
Character: Atef
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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Sand Castle
Title: Sand Castle
Character: Sheik
Released: April 21, 2017
Type: Movie
Set during the occupation of Iraq, a squad of U.S. soldiers try to protect a small village.
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Title: The Crown
Character: Mohamed Al Fayed
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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Paradise Cruise
Title: Paradise Cruise
Character: Abu Haled
Released: August 21, 2013
Type: Movie
An impossible love story between Yossi, a former IDF soldier, and Dora, a mysterious French photographer visiting Israel, as they both struggle in vain to leave their pasts behind.
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L'Infiltré
Title: L'Infiltré
Character: Abou Nidal
Released: June 21, 2011
Type: Movie
A notorious French ex-felon becomes an informant and infiltrates a Mexican drug cartel.
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Title: Prisoners of War
Character: Jamal
Released: March 6, 2010
Type: TV
After 17 years in captivity, Israeli soldiers Nimrode Klein, Uri Zach, and Amiel Ben Horin return home to the country that made them national icons. They work to overcome the trauma of torture and captivity while settling back into their interrupted family lives. Meanwhile, the military psychiatrist assigned to them finds discrepancies in the soldiers' testimonies, and launches an investigation to discover what they are hiding.
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Title: Arab Labor
Character: Ismail Abu Amjad
Released: November 24, 2007
Type: TV
Amjad is an Arab-Israeli journalist whose problems with cultural identity drive himself and all around him crazy especially his wife, Bushra.
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The Children of USSR
Title: The Children of USSR
Character: Policeman
Released: June 6, 2007
Type: Movie
A group of young immigrants from Soviet Union live in a provincial Israeli town. In their new homeland the only person who follows them closely is the local policeman, family ties are wearing out day by day, and they do everything to mess their lives up, transforming their anxiety to get a new social standing in violence and robbery. Will they be able to build a soccer team and win the local championship? Will sport help them to recover self-esteem and prove to everyone that they are not doomed to live as criminals?
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James' Journey to Jerusalem
Title: James' Journey to Jerusalem
Character: Shimi Shabati
Released: December 31, 2003
Type: Movie
During his journey to Jerusalem young James learns the meaning of being Israeli.
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The Milky Way
Title: The Milky Way
Character: Muhamed
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
1964, a village in Galilee. The Mukhtar collaborates with Israeli military rule. Someone is forging work permits, and the Mukhtar's son and a steady metalsmith, Mahmud, want to marry the same woman. These story lines cross when the village teacher is arrested and jailed for the forgeries, with the Mukhtar's approval. Mahmoud discovers who the real forger is and goes to the Mukhtar, whose son assumes Mahmud has come to denounce him. He sets off to burn down Mahmoud's house; tragedy follows. At Mahmud's side through his troubles is Mabruq, the village fool who, like others, particularly a young woman named Jamilah, still suffers from witnessing horrors in the 1948 war.
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Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem
Title: Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem
Character: Hammoudi, aka 'Radio Locale'
Released: January 2, 1994
Type: Movie
Both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are sensitively explored in the Tunisian-French drama. Richard, a French TV journalist has been assigned to do a political story in Jerusalem the night before Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat sign their peace accord. Richard is glad to go as it gives him a chance to see his girlfriend Esther, a psychologist. Esther's father Moshe is continually tormented by his Holocaust memories. Hammoudi, nicknamed "Local Radio," is Richard's taxi driver and guide. He tells Richard the story of his family which was uprooted in 1948 resulting in the disappearance of his grandmother. Mysteriously, her picture appeared in a recent Arabic newspaper. Richard, intrigued, decides to center his investigations upon "Local Radio's" story. As he delves deeper into their lives he discovers that the ancient rivalries between the Israeli's and Palestinians is far too deep and complex to be easily explained away.
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Curfew
Title: Curfew
Released: January 2, 1994
Type: Movie
This drama portrays a day in the life of a Palestinian family during a curfew announced by the Israeli army in a Palestinian refugee camp on the Gaza Strip in 1993. From that point on, they must live behind closed shutters, barred from their daily lives and needs.
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The Seventh Coin
Title: The Seventh Coin
Released: April 30, 1993
Type: Movie
In modern-day Jerusalem, an Arab boy and a beautiful American tourist are accidentally entrusted with a priceless coin from the age of King Herod. Soon the two are falling in love and running for their lives from Emil Saber, a man obsessed with possessing the fabled coin at any cost.
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The Cage
Title: The Cage
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: Movie
Directed by Amit Goren.
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A Thousand and One Wives
Title: A Thousand and One Wives
Character: Matchmaker
Released: February 14, 1989
Type: Movie
The Bukharan neighborhood of Jerusalem in the 1920s Naftali is a wealthy trader and a middle-aged widow whose all his former wives have mysteriously passed away and he is afraid to remarry with a belief that he has a curse on him. The matchmaker presses and the old woman coaxes and finally carries Flora, a 24-year-old virgin, but not to infect her with a curse, he avoids any physical contact with her. The plot gets complicated when Flora gets hurt as a result of her relationship with the fabric merchant, and Naftali, who can't bear the shame, turns his anger on his young wife.
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Shelter
Title: Shelter
Released: January 2, 1989
Type: Movie
Directed by Rashid Masharawi.
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Avanti Popolo
Title: Avanti Popolo
Character: Haled el Asmar
Released: January 2, 1986
Type: Movie
A beautiful anti-war movie. It describes the surreal journey of two Egyptian soldiers as they're coming back to Cairo from the Six-day War of 1967. One is an aspiring actor, whose biggest role so far was that of Shakespeare's Shylock (the irony of fate), who contributes the role of the sad clown (played by the Arab-Israeli actor Salim Daw).
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A Wish and a Half
Title: A Wish and a Half
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Two fishermen on the Haifa shore. One is an Arab, the other - a Jew. Both are hoping for a lucky day. Then they happen to catch the same fish.