Makram J. Khoury

Makram J. Khoury

Birthday: 1945-05-30

Place of Birth: Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine

Biography: Makram J. Khoury  is an Israeli Arab, born May 30, 1945 in Jerusalem. He was the youngest artist and the first Arab to win the Israel Prize, the highest civic honor in Israel. He is one of the most accomplished and well-known Israeli Arab 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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The Syrian Bride
The Syrian Bride

In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze ...

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Free Zone
Free Zone

Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her ...

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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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A House in Jerusalem
A House in Jerusalem

Mourning her mother’s death and struggling to adjust to her new life in Israel, a young girl bonds w...

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Shred of Hope
Shred of Hope

Shred of Hope (2007) It is winter, Julian is heading to work, as always. On his face signs of troub...

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Big Shots
Big Shots

Four men whose combined intellect does not reach into the triple digits decide to steal a safe full ...

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Inheritance
Inheritance

A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of their...

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Complicit
Complicit

An MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral ...

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Nicht ganz Koscher
Nicht ganz Koscher

Three religions. Two men. One mission. Ben has gone off into the desert. In order to escape the matc...

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Sweets
Sweets

Salah, an Israeli-Arab enterpriser, strives to bring happiness for the children of the Arab sector i...

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Desert Dancer
Desert Dancer

Inspirational true story of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian, who risked his life for his dream to b...

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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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Canticle of Stones
Canticle of Stones

Two Palestinian lovers, parted during the 60s when he is imprisoned for resisting the Israeli occupa...

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Magic Men
Magic Men

An elderly Israeli Jew of Greek origins was sent to Greece to represent his town in a town twinning ...

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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 Taste of Apples Is Red
The Taste of Apples Is Red

In the Druze mountain villages between Syria and Israel, Kamel, a respected sheik, must make an impo...

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Atlit
Atlit

In October 1995 three French sisters gather in Atlit, Israel to sell the family home. Tensions arise...

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Michel Ezra Safra and Sons
Michel Ezra Safra and Sons

Directed by Nissim Dayan....

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A Tale of Love and Darkness
A Tale of Love and Darkness

The story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his p...

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Wounded Land
Wounded Land

Police officer Kobi Amar and his Region Commander Yehuda Neumann have been partners at the Haifa pol...

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The Physician
The Physician

England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and van...

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Farewell Baghdad
Farewell Baghdad

Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the wo...

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Munich
Munich

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...

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Djihad!
Djihad!

A hard-hitting French drama detailing the intersecting destinies of five characters whose lives cros...

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The City
The City

Danish-Arabian Yusif arrives in the mythical Middle Eastern city of Medina with his pregnant wife Sa...

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Carmel
Carmel

Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their na...

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Abulele
Abulele

Adam (10) meets Abulele, an ancient, huge, friendly and invisible monster. When a government Special...

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Unlocked
Unlocked

After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA age...

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Wedding in Galilee
Wedding in Galilee

A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military ...

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Lemon Tree
Lemon Tree

Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territ...

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A Tale of Love and Darkness
A Tale of Love and Darkness

The story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his p...

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Italians
Italians

Two stories of Italians abroad: in Dubai, a truck driver who smuggles Ferraris for a living teaches ...

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The Smile of the Lamb
The Smile of the Lamb

This Israeli-made film is set along the battle-torn West Bank. Military governor Makram Khouri tries...

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Spider in the Web
Spider in the Web

A young operative is sent on a mission to follow an older agent who's behavior has come into questio...

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Write Down, I Am an Arab
Write Down, I Am an Arab

"Write Down, I am an Arab" tells the story of Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian national poet and one...

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RSC Live: The Merchant of Venice
RSC Live: The Merchant of Venice

In the melting pot of Venice, trade is God. With its ships plying the globe, the city opens its arms...

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The Cut
The Cut

In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and...

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Voice Over
Voice Over

Fifty years after Slow Down by Avraham Heffner won a prize at Venice Film Festival, top alumni of th...

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The Patriots
The Patriots

Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent ...

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A Letter to a Friend in Gaza
A Letter to a Friend in Gaza

Gitai pays homage to Albert Camus and explores the return to Palestinian villages while interjecting...

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Miral
Miral

A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli wa...

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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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Kasach
Kasach

Crossover! All the stars of the 80s Israelian Mizrahi Music were brought. He is a rising star at th...

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Laila in Haifa
Laila in Haifa

The film was shot entirely in a nightclub, with an adjoining contemporary art gallery, whose custome...

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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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Forgiveness
Forgiveness

On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 10...

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The Way of the Wind
The Way of the Wind

A dramatization of several episodes in the life of Christ....

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Crossfire
Crossfire

A film based on true events, set against the backdrop of 1947-8 in Tel Aviv in the Jewish quarter. ...

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On a Narrow Bridge
On a Narrow Bridge

The story of an impossible love in the Occupied Territories between an Israeli officer and a Palesti...

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The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita

A writer in 1930s Moscow has his work banned and is expelled from the official union, leaving him wi...

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