Hiam Abbass
| Hiam Abbass | |
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 Hiam Abbass at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Born |
November 30, 1960 Nazareth, Israel[1] |
| Citizenship |
Israel French |
| Occupation | Actress, Director |
| Religion | Islam |
Hiam Abbass (Arabic: هيام عباس, Hebrew: היאם עבאס; born November 30, 1960), also Hiyam Abbas, is an Israeli Arab actress and film director of Palestinian descent.[1]
Personal life
Hiam Abbass was born into a Muslim family in Nazareth, Israel. She was raised in the Arab village of Deir Hanna.[2]
During the filming of the Steven Spielberg film Munich, Abbass lived in a hotel with the Arab and Israeli actors for three months. During that time, they had many discussions that "helped both sides grow closer." In an interview in 2006, Abbass said, "I still remember how difficult it was for the Arab actors to manhandle the Israeli actors in the first scene where the Israeli national team is taken hostage."[1]
Film career
Abbass is known for her roles in Satin Rouge (2002), Haifa (1996), Paradise Now (2005), The Syrian Bride (2004), Free Zone (2005), Dawn of the World (2008), The Visitor (2008), Lemon Tree (2008), Every Day is a Holiday (2009) and Amreeka (2009). In Spielberg's film, depicting the response to the Munich Massacre, she also served as a dialect and acting consultant.[1]
She directed two short films, Le Pain (2001), and La Danse éternelle (2004). She portrays humanitarian Hind al-Husseini in Julian Schnabel's film Miral (2010), based on the life of Husseini and her orphanage.
In 2002, she appeared in Satin Rouge by Raja Amari, a film about the self-discovery of a middle aged Tunisian widow. She also a similar role in The Syrian Bride, about a Druze woman eager to break down barriers.
Abbass appeared in the French films Le sac de farine and Le temps de la balle.[3]
In 2008, she played the mother of an illegal Syrian immigrant in Thomas McCarthy's movie The Visitor,[4] and the mother of an Iraqi soldier in Abbas Fahdel's film Dawn of the World.
Also in 2008, she played the principal role in Israeli director Eran Riklis's film Lemon Tree (Etz Limon in Hebrew). For this role, she won Best Performance by an Actress at the 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.[3] In Jim Jarmusch's 2009 film The Limits of Control, in the role of Driver, she recites in Classical Arabic one of the film's leitmotif-phrases, "He who thinks he is bigger than the rest must go to the cemetery. There he will see what life really is."
Abbass also appears in A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (2011), a French-Québéecois-Israeli film produced by Thierry Binisti. It is based upon the young adult novel Une bouteille dans la mer de Gaza by Valérie Zenatti. She plays the role of Naïm's mother.
In 2012, she was named as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[5]
She made her directorial feature film debut with The Inheritance in 2012.
Filmography
Actress
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | La nuit miraculeuse | Ariane Mnouchkine | TV movie | |
| 1993 | Antoine Rives, juge du terrorisme | Jacqueline Tabet | Philippe Lefebvre | TV series (Episode: "L'affaire JBN") |
| 1994 | 3000 scénarios contre un virus | A client | Cédric Klapisch | TV series (Episode: "Poisson rouge") |
| 1996 | When the Cat's Away | Woman in the courtyard | Cédric Klapisch (2) | |
| Haifa | Oum Said | Rashid Masharawi | ||
| 1998 | Raddem | Danielle Arbid | Short | |
| Vivre au paradis | Bourlem Guerdjou | |||
| Venise est une femme | Aïcha's Mother | Jean-Pierre Vergne | TV movie | |
| Histoire naturelle | Karim Boulila | Short | ||
| 2000 | Mix-cité | Christophe Leprêtre | TV movie | |
| Ali, Rabiaa et les autres | Rabiaa | Ahmed Boulane | ||
| 2001 | Ligne 208 | Khaled's Mother | Bernard Dumont | |
| Le pain | Hiam Abbass | Short | ||
| Le mariage en papier | Aunt Rabiaa | Stéphanie Duvivier | Short | |
| Tar Angel (L'ange de goudron) | Naïma Kasmi | Denis Chouinard | ||
| 2002 | Fais-moi des vacances | Lucien & José's Mother | Didier Bivel | |
| Satin rouge | Lilia | Raja Amari | ||
| A Loving Father | Salma | Jacob Berger | ||
| 2003 | Pierre et Farid | Farid's Mother | Michel Favart | TV movie |
| Noctambules | Lonely Woman | Pascal Tessaud | Short | |
| 2004 | The Gate of Sun | Um Youness | Yousry Nasrallah | |
| The Syrian Bride | Amal | Eran Riklis | Nominated – Ophir Award for Best Actress Nominated – European Film Award for Best Actress | |
| Nadia et Sarra | Nadia | Moufida Tlatli | ||
| 2005 | Paradise Now | Said's Mother | Hany Abu-Assad | |
| Sur les traces de Mélanie | Madelaine | Laetitia Arlix | Short | |
| Free Zone | Leila | Amos Gitai | Nominated – Ophir Award for Best Supporting Actress | |
| Le démon de midi | Rim | Marie-Pascale Osterrieth | ||
| Munich | Marie Claude Hamshari | Steven Spielberg | ||
| 2006 | Petites révélations | Marie Vermillard | ||
| Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest | Jénane's Voice | Michel Ocelot | ||
| The Nativity Story | Anna | Catherine Hardwicke | ||
| 2007 | Conversations with My Gardener | The gardener's wife | Jean Becker | |
| Disengagement | Hiam | Amos Gitai (2) | ||
| The Visitor | Mouna | Thomas McCarthy | Federazione Italiana Cinema d'Essai – Acting Nominated – International Cinephile Society Awards – Best Supporting Actress Nominated – Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cast Nominated – Gotham Awards for Best Ensemble Cast | |
| 2008 | Béthune sur Nil | Farah | Jérôme Foulon | TV movie |
| La fabrique des sentiments | Professor Sterne | Jean-Marc Moutout | ||
| Lemon Tree | Salma Zidane | Eran Riklis (2) | Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actress Ophir Award for Best Actress Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema – Best Actress Federazione Italiana Cinema d'Essai – Acting Nominated – European Film Award for Best Actress | |
| Un roman policier | Fati | Stéphanie Duvivier (2) | ||
| Dawn of the World | Mastour's mother | Abbas Fahdel | ||
| Fatoush | The woman | Hisham Abdel Khalek | Short | |
| Kandisha | Mona Bendrissi | Jerome Cohen-Olivar | ||
| Al-mor wa al rumman | Umm Habib | Najwa Najjar | ||
| Blanche | The neighbour | Eric Griffon du Bellay | Short | |
| 2009 | Amreeka | Raghda Halaby | Cherien Dabis | |
| Espion(s) | Wafa | Nicolas Saada | ||
| Human Zoo | Mina | Rie Rasmussen | ||
| The Limits of Control | The Driver | Jim Jarmusch | ||
| Persécution | Marie | Patrice Chéreau | ||
| Chaque jour est une fête | Hala | Dima El-Horr | ||
| 2010 | Suite parlée | The Ants | Joël Brisse Marie Vermillard (2) |
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| Clichés | Nadine Naous | Short | ||
| Histoires de vies | Zineb | Julien Sicard | TV series (Episode: "Des intégrations ordinaires") | |
| Miral | Hind al-Husseini | Julian Schnabel | ||
| Le temps de la balle | Hana | Hervé Jakubowicz | Short | |
| I Am Slave | Gabriel Range | TV movie | ||
| Habibti | Iman | Nour Wazzi | Short | |
| 2011 | The Promise | Old Jawda | Peter Kosminsky | TV miniseries (4 episodes) |
| The Source | Fatima | Radu Mihăileanu | ||
| Do Not Forget Me Istanbul | Hany Abu-Assad (2) Stefan Arsenijević Aida Begić Eric Nazarian |
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| A Bottle in the Gaza Sea | Intessar | Thierry Binisti | ||
| 2012 | Le sac de farine | Yasmine | Kadija Leclere | |
| Inheritance | Samira | Hiam Abbass (2) | ||
| 2013 | Les jeux des nuages et de la pluie | Blanche | Benjamin de Lajarte | |
| May in the Summer | Nadine | Cherien Dabis (2) | ||
| Rock the Casbah | Aicha | Laïla Marrakchi | ||
| Samarkande | The Death | Christophe Arnould | Short | |
| Peace After Marriage | Amani | Bandar & Ghazi Albuliwi | ||
| 2014 | De guerre lasse | Raïssa | Olivier Panchot | |
| Nothing Escapes My Eyes | Women | David Krippendorff | Short | |
| The Red Tent | Queen Re-Nefer | Roger Young | ||
| Exodus: Gods and Kings | Bithiah | Ridley Scott | ||
| 2015 | Dégradé | Eftikhar | Arab Nasser and Tarzan Nasser | |
| The Sense of Wonder | Dr. Mélanie Ferenza | Éric Besnard | ||
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 | Denis Villeneuve |
Director
| Year | Title | Actors | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Le pain | Jules Sitruk, Zinedine Soualem | Short Nominated – Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film – Best Short Film |
| 2004 | La danse éternelle | Gamil Ratib, Françoise Bertin | Short Also writer |
| 2012 | Inheritance | Hafsia Herzi, Ali Suliman, Ashraf Barhom, Clara Khoury, Makram Khoury, Tom Payne | Also writer Nominated – São Paulo International Film Festival – Best Feature Film |
| 2015 | Jerusalem, I Love You |
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 Rapprochement through Debate:Interview With Hiam Abbas
- ↑ ‘Syrian Bride’ Weds Simple Tale, History | Israeli Film Festival | Jewish Journal
- 1 2 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007814/
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0857191/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_38
- ↑ "The Jury of the 65th Festival de Cannes". festival-cannes.com. Cannes Film Festival. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
External links
- Hiam Abbass at the Internet Movie Database
- G21 Interview: Hiam Abbass, by Brad Balfour
- Photos of Hiam Abbass at Berlin Film Festival 2008
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