Hiam Abbass
Hiam Abbass ( Arabic هيام عباس, DMG Hiyām ʿAbbās , Hebrew היאם עבאס, Born November 30, 1960 in Nazareth , Israel ) is an Israeli-Arab actress and film director .
Life
Hiam Abbass has appeared regularly in international film and television productions since 1994 and is one of the few outstanding Israeli actresses of Arab origin. In Germany , she became known to a larger audience primarily for her roles in the films Die Syrische Braut (2004) and Paradise Now (2005). In 2005 she received a nomination for the European Film Award for Best Actress for the first film mentioned .
In the same year it occupied Steven Spielberg 's film Munich , which the attack on Israeli athletes at the Olympics in 1972 in Munich treated.
She also took part in the film Rivalinnen (2003) by Moufida Tlatli . In 2007 Abbass was a member of the jury of the Berlin Film Festival, chaired by US filmmaker Paul Schrader ; at the Berlinale 2008 she presented her new film Lemon Tree , which she also shot like The Syrian Bride with Eran Riklis . For the lead role of the Palestinian widow Salma, whose lemon tree garden is rated as a security risk for the Israeli Defense Minister, who is moving in in the immediate vicinity, she was awarded the Ophir Award , Israel's national film prize, for the first time in 2008 and received a nomination for the European Film Prize 2008 for best Actress . In 2004 and 2005, she received nominations for the Ophir for her roles in The Syrian Bride and Free Zone .
In addition to working as an actress, Abbass also appeared sporadically as a filmmaker. After her first short films ( Le pain , 2001; La danse éternelle , 2004), she presented her first feature film Inheritance (English-language festival title: Heritage ) at the 69th Venice International Film Festival in 2012 . The drama, for which she also wrote the script and played the lead role alongside the French woman Hafsia Herzi , tells of the wedding preparations of a Palestinian family from Galilee , which, however, is under the sign of the war between Israel and Lebanon . In the same year Abbass was appointed to the competition jury of the 65th Cannes International Film Festival .
In 2018 she was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.
Filmography
Actress (selection)
- 1996: … and everyone is looking for their kitten (Chacun cherche son chat) - Director: Cédric Klapisch
- 1996: Haïfa - Directed by Rashid Masharawi
- 2001: L'ange de goudron - Director: Denis Chouinard
- 2002: Red Satin (Satin rouge) - Director: Raja Amari
- 2002: Love your father (Aime ton père) - Director: Jacob Berger
- 2004: Rivals (Nadia et Sarra) - Director: Moufida Tlatli
- 2004: Bab el shams - Director: Yousry Nasrallah
- 2004: The Syrian Bride (The Syrian Bride) - Director: Eran Riklis
- 2005: Paradise Now - Director: Hany Abu-Assad
- 2005: Free Zone - Directed by Amos Gitai
- 2005: München (Munich) - Director: Steven Spielberg
- 2006: It happened at the time ... (The Nativity Story) - Director: Catherine Hardwicke
- 2007: Dialogue with my gardener (Dialogue avec mon jardinier) - Director: Jean Becker
- 2007: Separation (Désengagement) - Director: Amos Gitai
- 2007: A Summer in New York - The Visitor (The Visitor) - Director: Tom McCarthy
- 2008: La fabrique des sentiments - Director: Jean-Marc Moutout
- 2008: Lemon Tree - Director: Eran Riklis
- 2008: Dawn of the World - Director: Abbas Fahdel
- 2008: Pomegranates and Myrrh (Al-mor wa al rumman) - Director: Najwa Najjar
- 2009: The Limits of Control - Director: Jim Jarmusch
- 2009: Restless (Persécution) - directed by Patrice Chéreau
- 2009: Welcome to America (Amreeka) - directed by Cherien Dabis
- 2010: Miral - Director: Julian Schnabel
- 2010: I Am Slave - Director: Gabriel Range
- 2010: Promised Land (The Promise) (TV Series)
- 2011: Do Not Forget Me Istanbul - Directors: Hany Abu-Assad, Stefan Arsenijevic, Aida Begic, Josefina Markarian, Eric Nazarian, Stergios Niziris, Omar Shargawi
- 2011: Source of Women (La source des femmes) - directed by Radu Mihăileanu
- 2011: Message in a bottle in front of Gaza (Une bouteille à la mer) - Director: Thierry Binisti
- 2012: Inheritance - also director
- 2013: Peace After Marriage - Directed by Bandar Albuliwi, Ghazi Albuliwi
- 2014: Exodus: Gods and Kings - Director: Ridley Scott
- 2015: Pear Cake with Lavender (Le goût des merveilles) - Director: Éric Besnard
- 2017: Inside Life (Insyriated) - Director: Philippe Van Leeuw
- 2017: Blade Runner 2049 - Director: Denis Villeneuve
- 2018: Carnivores - Directors: Jérémie Renier , Yannick Renier
- since 2018: Succession (TV series)
- 2019: Ramy (TV series)
- 2019: Les hirondelles de Kaboul (voice)
Director
- 2001: Le pain (short film)
- 2004: La danse éternelle (short film, also screenplay)
- 2012: Inheritance (also screenplay)
Web links
- Hiam Abbass in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- “I don't want to play victims” - Interview with Andreas Kilb at faz.net, October 2nd, 2008
- Photos by Hiam Abbass, Berlinale 2008
- Hiam Abbass in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film profile at venice-days.com (English) ( Memento from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Abbass, Hiam |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | هيام عباس (Arabic) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli-Arab actress and film director |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Nazareth , Israel |