Ruba Blal

Ruba Blal

Born: December 5, 1979
in Nazareth, Israele

Movies for Ruba Blal...

Khaled & Nema
Title: Khaled & Nema
Released: February 8, 2024
Type: Movie
While their village is threatened to be demolished once again by the Israeli army, Khaled and his best friend Nema the goat undertake to help Abu Mariam to recover his memory
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The Teacher
Title: The Teacher
Released: September 10, 2023
Type: Movie
A Palestinian schoolteacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with volunteer-worker Lisa and his emotional support for one of his students Adam.
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Title: Madrasa
Character: ריהאם ברהום
Released: January 1, 2023
Type: TV
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America
Title: America
Released: December 8, 2022
Type: Movie
An Israeli swimming tutor living in Chicago returns to Israel after 10 years of absence to bury his father. An encounter with a beloved childhood friend and his newly engaged girlfriend will set a series of events that will affect everyone's lives. A story set between a flower shop and an ancient monastery, between a swimming pool and the Mediterranean sea, between life and death - and somewhere in the middle.
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Hamza - Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me
Title: Hamza - Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me
Released: November 16, 2022
Type: Movie
After his recovery, middle-aged Hamza has continued a practice he began 20 years ago when he was freed from an Israeli prison: he goes into the woods every day to chase the lion that the locals don’t think exists. Hamza struggles to reach a peaceful place. Despite his wife’s pleadings and the villagers’ contempt, Hamza sits his baits and traps in the forest, hoping to defeat the mysterious threat. He finds refuge in his journey from social rejection and denial. In the woods, Hamza is free to act according to his beliefs, fighting his own battle to heal an open wound – the trauma of losing his childhood friend, and the horrific memories of torture and guilt.
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The Taste of Apples is Red
Title: The Taste of Apples is Red
Character: Salma
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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Title: Our Boys
Character: Suha Abu Khdeir
Released: August 12, 2019
Type: TV
Three Jewish teenagers are kidnapped and murdered by Hamas militants in the summer of 2014, leading to the retaliatory killing of 16-year-old Palestinian Muhammad Abu Khdeir and a conflict that forever changes the lives of Jews and Arabs alike.
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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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Wajib
Title: Wajib
Character: Rami's Wife
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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Sand Storm
Title: Sand Storm
Character: Jalila
Released: January 7, 2017
Type: Movie
A Bedouin village in Northern Israel. When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's world is shattered, and the women are torn between their commitment to the patriarchal rules and being true to themselves.
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The Worthy
Title: The Worthy
Character: raya
Released: October 8, 2016
Type: Movie
A visually spectacular dystopian take on an Arab world torn apart by social disorder.
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Title: The Screenwriter
Character: Ruba
Released: October 22, 2015
Type: TV
Mockumentary based on the life of Israeli-Arab writer and journalist, Sayed Kashua, creator of the series 'Arab Labor'. Kataeb, Palestinian writer and journalist living in Israel, loses interest in writing his successful series and instead wants to write a series on a 40 year old going throw a mid-life crisis he is experiencing. As a Palestinian and Israeli he confronts with questions about identity, national definitions, as well as his relationships with his family, and the society and country he lives in.
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A.K.A Nadia
Title: A.K.A Nadia
Character: Amal
Released: July 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Maya is a happily married mother of two. She is a successful choreographer and everything seems to be perfect...but this life is a lie. Unbeknownst to her family and everyone around her, she has a hidden past.
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When I Saw You
Title: When I Saw You
Character: Ghaydaa
Released: June 6, 2014
Type: Movie
Tarek and his mother Ghaydaa number among the tens of thousands of refugees crossing the border from Palestine, having been separated from Tarek's father amidst the chaos of the Six Day War. They ultimately settle at the Harir refugee camp, a makeshift home for a new generation displaced by conflict. Tarek dreams of being reunited with his father, and struggles to adapt to a new life far away from all he previously knew.
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Pink Subaru
Title: Pink Subaru
Character: Mahmoud's wife
Released: April 16, 2011
Type: Movie
The Arab-Israeli sushi chef Elzober can finally fulfill his dream: to buy a brand new black Legacy. But the day after the purchase the car is stolen.
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Miral
Title: Miral
Character: Fatima
Released: September 15, 2010
Type: Movie
A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.
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The Bubble
Title: The Bubble
Character: Rana
Released: June 6, 2006
Type: Movie
The movie follows a group of young friends in the city of Tel Aviv and is as much a love song to the city as it is an exploration of the claim that people in Tel Aviv are isolated from the rest of the country and the turmoil it's going through. The movie looks at young people's lives in Tel Aviv through the POVs of gays and straights, Jews and Arabs, men and women.
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Thirst
Title: Thirst
Released: May 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Life begins to change for a family of five living in the middle of nowhere when water is illegally diverted onto their land
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Blood Like Water
Title: Blood Like Water
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Palestinian Shadi embarks on a secret adventure, and accidentally drags his proud family into a trap where they either collaborate with the Israeli occupation or be shamed and humiliated.