Hiam Abbass

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Hiam Abbass at the Cannes International Film Festival 2012

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)

Director

  • 2001: Le pain (short film)
  • 2004: La danse éternelle (short film, also screenplay)
  • 2012: Inheritance (also screenplay)

Web links

Commons : Hiam Abbass  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Film profile at venice-days.com (English) ( Memento from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).
personal data
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