Mohammad Bakri

Mohammad Bakri

Birthday: 1953-11-27

Place of Birth: Galilee, Palestine

Biography: Mohammed Bakri (also credited as Mohammad Bakri, 1953-2025) was a popular Palestinian actor, director and playwright. He began to act in theatre in 1976. During his career, he worked with many directors such as Costa-Gavras, Amos Gitai, Rashid Masharawi, Saverio Costanzo, Michel Khleifi and Annemarie Jacir. His sons Saleh, Ziad and Adam Bakri are also actors.

Movies

Cairo Conspiracy
Cairo Conspiracy

A fisherman's son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, th...

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Fairuz
Fairuz

A story about growing older and the loneliness of losing people around you....

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The Milky Way
The Milky Way

1964, a village in Galilee. The Mukhtar collaborates with Israeli military rule. Someone is forging ...

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Tale of the Three Jewels
Tale of the Three Jewels

A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Romani girl and a fairy tale world she weaves a...

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The Body
The Body

An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist ...

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American Assassin
American Assassin

Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Sta...

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Wajib
Wajib

After years abroad in Italy, Shadi returns to his native Nazareth. But this is no spectacular homeco...

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Private
Private

Mohammed lives with his wife and five children in a house located between a Palestinian village and ...

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Weddings and Other Disasters
Weddings and Other Disasters

A single, independent woman finds herself organizing her sister's wedding with the help of her futur...

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The Tower
The Tower

Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to fin...

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Laila's Birthday
Laila's Birthday

As Abu Laila is forced to leave his job as a judge and become a cab driver, he faces a hectic challe...

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Hanna K.
Hanna K.

Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Se...

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The Lark Farm
The Lark Farm

The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looki...

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Beyond the Walls
Beyond the Walls

In Israel's Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the hatred...

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Giraffada
Giraffada

Yacine is the veterinarian of the only zoo remaining in the Palestinian West Bank. He lives alone wi...

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Esther
Esther

Ahasverus, king of Persia and Media, puts aside Vashti and makes Esther his queen, choosing her amon...

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Death Before Dishonor
Death Before Dishonor

Gunnery Sergeant Burns reports for duty to an American Embassy in the Middle East. However due to th...

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The Mummy Lives
The Mummy Lives

An Egyptian noble, sentenced to death for a forbidden affair, returns from the grave 3,000 years lat...

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Haifa
Haifa

Haifa, nicknamed after the city of his love and hope, goes around and comes around in a Palestinian ...

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The Flowers of Kirkuk
The Flowers of Kirkuk

Cruel politics and intensive love. Najla (N) has just finished her medical studies in Rome. Sherko (...

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Inertia
Inertia

Mira Segal wakes up screaming one morning to discover that her husband has disappeared. The police o...

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The Salt Fisherman
The Salt Fisherman

A fisherman lives alone. His days and nights are fraught with waiting. He rises with the sun and car...

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Cup Final
Cup Final

An Israeli soldier is taken hostage by a small PLO squad in Lebanon. The soldier planned to go on va...

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Water
Water

Ten directors, Israeli and Palestinian embarked on a journey to create short films, fiction or docum...

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1948
1948

The documentary records the memories of a group of Palestinian elders, mainly veterans from the 1948...

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The Stranger
The Stranger

In a small village in the occupied Golan Heights, the life of a desperate unlicensed doctor, who is ...

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The Savior
The Savior

It is a time when Rome rules the world with the power of life and death in their hands. The province...

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Double Edge
Double Edge

Upon arriving Israel on her first foreign assignment, American photojournalist Faye Milano is greete...

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Desperado Square
Desperado Square

In ha-Argazim, a neighborhood that time forgot, the one-year anniversary of Morris Mandabon's death ...

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Rami og Julie
Rami og Julie

A Palestinian refugee living in Copenhagen is rescued from a gang of racist thugs by a young woman w...

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In Search of Peace
In Search of Peace

In Search of Peace: 1948-1967 chronicles Israel's first two decades, offering new insights on the or...

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Il bambino di Betlemme
Il bambino di Betlemme

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The Olive Harvest
The Olive Harvest

Upon his release from an Israeli prison, Mazen begins to fall in love with Raeda, his friend since c...

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Zindeeq
Zindeeq

Acclaimed director Michel Khleifi's story of a Palestinian film-maker 'M' living in Europe, who retu...

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Shelter
Shelter

Directed by Rashid Masharawi....

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Scar
Scar

Scar holds a special place in the development and oeuvre of Ronit Elkabetz: it’s her first work as a...

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Beyond the Walls II
Beyond the Walls II

A sequel to Beyond the Walls (1984)....

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La maison de la mémoire
La maison de la mémoire

Based on the novel "L'avenir est un crime du passé" an autobiographical novel of Arab cameraman Raha...

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Nuzhat al-Fuad
Nuzhat al-Fuad

Odelia, a talented screenwriter, and her father,a well-known author, have a bond that is both compl...

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In His Place
In His Place

A complicated and nonliteral Jewish film about feelings the name for which has not yet been invented...

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Sous les pieds des femmes
Sous les pieds des femmes

This romantic, political drama is about the reunion of an Algerian woman who abandoned her lover 35 ...

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Sense of Morning
Sense of Morning

A man living in 1982 Beirut listens to the bombs fall and reminisces about the smell of coffee....

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Strange Cities Are Familiar
Strange Cities Are Familiar

A political refugee living in London tries to get back to his home in Palestine to see his dying son...

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Wild Horses
Wild Horses

Shadi lives in a horse-farm with his disabled and strict father, and with his beloved aging horse, R...

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The Warren
The Warren

A dramatization of raid to capture a suspected militant by the Israeli Defense Forces during the Sec...

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Blackness
Blackness

In times of war, a man wants to save his six children from starvation....

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All That's Left of You
All That's Left of You

In the Occupied West Bank of the 1980s, a Palestinian teenager is swept into a protest that changes ...

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Upshot
Upshot

Suleiman and Mona are a couple who lead a solitary life in which they care for animals and trees and...

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Fellow Travellers
Fellow Travellers

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