Hiam Abbass

Hiam Abbass

Birthday: 1960-11-30

Place of Birth: Nazareth, Israel

Biography: Hiam Abbass (Arabic: هيام عباس; Hebrew: היאם עבאס; born 30 November 1960), also spelled Hiyam Abbas, is a Palestinian actress and film director with Israeli and French citizenship. She is known for her roles in films such as The Syrian Bride (2004), Paradise Now (2005), Free Zone (2005), Munich (2005), The Visitor (2007), Lemon Tree (2008), Insyriated (2017), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). She gained prominence for her role as Marcia Roy in the HBO drama series Succession (2018–2023). She has also acted in the Channel 4 series The Promise (2011), the Lifetime miniseries The Red Tent (2014), the Hulu comedy series Ramy (2019–present), and the Hulu drama series The Old Man (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article -, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Paradise Now
Paradise Now

Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv....

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The Nativity Story
The Nativity Story

Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nati...

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Conversations with My Gardener
Conversations with My Gardener

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to l...

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Hellraiser
Hellraiser

A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that...

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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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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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Munich
Munich

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

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The Visitor
The Visitor

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living ...

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Amreeka
Amreeka

Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi, divorcée Muna Farah leaves her Palestinian homel...

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Spy(ies)
Spy(ies)

In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce ...

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We Need a Vacation
We Need a Vacation

It is the end of the school year for the children of a dormitory town. Most of them leave the place ...

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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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Disengagement
Disengagement

A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French w...

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I Am Slave
I Am Slave

Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia, daugh...

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Human Zoo
Human Zoo

In Marseille, the young Serbian-Albanian Adria Shala is an illegal immigrant traumatized by her past...

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The Feelings Factory
The Feelings Factory

A successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job and a ...

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Pomegranates and Myrrh
Pomegranates and Myrrh

A free spirited woman dancer, Kamar, finds herself the lonely wife of a prisoner, Zaid, and away fro...

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The Source
The Source

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withh...

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Persecution
Persecution

A solitary man and his partner share a tense love/hate relationship. Their lives are disrupted when ...

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A Loving Father
A Loving Father

Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affai...

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The Demon Stirs
The Demon Stirs

Anne Cestac accepts the obvious: her husband Julien, in his forties, has fallen madly in love with a...

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Satin Rouge
Satin Rouge

After the death of her husband, Lilia's life revolves solely around her teenage daughter, Salma. Whi...

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A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

Tai is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives i...

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The Gate of the Sun
The Gate of the Sun

Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years o...

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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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Inheritance
Inheritance

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

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Games of Clouds and Rain
Games of Clouds and Rain

Li Qin leaves her temperamental husband and unknowingly provides a trail for a detective who has bee...

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Bye Bye Tiberias
Bye Bye Tiberias

In her early twenties, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becomi...

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May in the Summer
May in the Summer

A bride-to-be is forced to reevaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan and finds...

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Everyday Is a Holiday
Everyday Is a Holiday

It's Independence Day in Lebanon: three women who've never met before are on the same bus heading to...

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Living in Paradise
Living in Paradise

Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, Living in Paradise is a thought-provoking examin...

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Tar Angel
Tar Angel

Newly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the canadian society, while attempting to contr...

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Mateo Falcone
Mateo Falcone

Corsica in the 19th century. An isolated farm at the edge of some scrub. Left to alone by his parent...

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Do Not Forget Me Istanbul
Do Not Forget Me Istanbul

Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and ar...

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Rock the Casbah
Rock the Casbah

The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems...

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Peace After Marriage
Peace After Marriage

Desperate for companionship, a lonely, young Palestinian-American man agrees to marry an Israeli wom...

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A Police Romance
A Police Romance

In a small police station, Lieutenant Emilie Carange finds herself sexually attracted to Jamil Messa...

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The Bag of Flour
The Bag of Flour

Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in ...

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Nadia and Sarra
Nadia and Sarra

Nadia is a 45 year old female professor at the University of Tunis. She is married and has a daughte...

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Only Rebels Win
Only Rebels Win

Suzanne and Osmane meet in crisis-ridden Beirut. Osmane is a young Sudanese man without papers, sear...

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Habibti
Habibti

A veiled Arab woman, steeped in tradition, journeys to London to visit her estranged daughter only t...

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The Arab
The Arab

The unnamed figure from Albert Camus’ L’étranger is reframed through the testimony of his ageing bro...

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Insidious: The Red Door
Insidious: The Red Door

To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go...

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No Beast. So Fierce.
No Beast. So Fierce.

In the aftermath of a bloody gang war, the youngest daughter of the victorious Arab clan begins to p...

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De guerre lasse
De guerre lasse

Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out...

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Love Conquers All
Love Conquers All

Susan, a 65 year old impoverished widow living in Beirut, meets Osman, a young Sudanese immigrant wo...

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Exodus: Gods and Kings
Exodus: Gods and Kings

The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a m...

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Dégradé
Dégradé

A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heavi...

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Dawn of the World
Dawn of the World

The Mesopotamian Marshes, at the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in the south of Iraq. Thi...

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Kandisha
Kandisha

Shattered by the loss of her child, Nyla Jayde, a brilliant criminal defense attorney, takes on a ca...

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The Sense of Wonder
The Sense of Wonder

Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, ev...

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Before What Comes After
Before What Comes After

In a kind of philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint di...

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Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner 2049

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long...

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Foreign Body
Foreign Body

In the turbulent aftermath of the Tunisian revolution, young Samia flees her homeland. She braves ho...

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I Still Hide to Smoke
I Still Hide to Smoke

Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian ha...

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Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest
Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest

Raised on tales of a Djinn fairy princess, Azur, a young Frenchman goes to North Africa in search of...

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In Syria
In Syria

A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home....

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Carnivores
Carnivores

At the dawn of her thirties, Mona tries relentlessly to take off as an actress. Time passes and prop...

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The Limits of Control
The Limits of Control

A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While ...

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Nasser's Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt
Nasser's Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt

In 1952 a young Egyptian colonel named Gamal Abdel Nasser led a coup that became a revolution, winni...

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When Arabs Danced
When Arabs Danced

Writer, director, and journalist Jawad Rhalib presents a timely exploration of Muslim identity in re...

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Ali, Rabiaa and the Others
Ali, Rabiaa and the Others

In the 70s, Ali, Rabiaa, Driss, Abdellah and Hamid are a group of friends grow up in a heavy world o...

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Brother
Brother

Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of...

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Bread
Bread

A mother living in the French countryside bicycles into town to buy a baguette for her family, and m...

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The Swallows of Kabul
The Swallows of Kabul

Summer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily vi...

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Minor Revelations
Minor Revelations

"The choice of each period is intimate, as each period awakens a particular emotion in me. This emot...

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Sofa So Good
Sofa So Good

In the streets of New York, a young woman is relentlessly, stubbornly and desperately looking for a ...

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In Vitro
In Vitro

In an underground orchard in Bethlehem, decades after an otherworldly ecodisaster, two scientists di...

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Gaza Mon Amour
Gaza Mon Amour

In Gaza, 60-year-old fisherman Issa has been secretly in love with Siham, a widow who works at the m...

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Nothing Escapes My Eyes
Nothing Escapes My Eyes

"Nothing Escapes My Eyes" is about a silent transformation of a place and a human being. Inspired by...

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The Wedding Guest
The Wedding Guest

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Blanche
Blanche

Chloé, a young baby sitter, must look after Blanche, the daughter of Agnes and François, for the fir...

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Sur les traces de Mélanie
Sur les traces de Mélanie

Rachid learned of Mélanie's accidental death. He decides to follow in his footsteps by taking his fr...

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When the Cat's Away
When the Cat's Away

When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to lo...

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Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'

An in-depth documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings," featuring intervie...

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Le Poisson rouge
Le Poisson rouge

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Night
Night

Night has to trick the mother of the missing child into sleeping to save her soul....

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Raddem
Raddem

A young woman searches through war-torn and rebuilding Beirut for a man who took pictures of her hom...

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Spices and Lies
Spices and Lies

Mehdi's life lies on a fragile balance. He plays the role of the perfect Algerian son for his mother...

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Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach th...

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Palestine 36
Palestine 36

1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rura...

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À voix basse
À voix basse

Back in Tunisia for her uncle's funeral, Lilia reunites with a family that knows nothing about her l...

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Atonement
Atonement

Based on Dexter Filkins’ resonant New Yorker article of the same name, about Marine Lu Lobello, haun...

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The Shelter
The Shelter

Leila is a former concert pianist from Aleppo, which bore much of the brunt of the ghastly Syrian Ci...

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La nuit miraculeuse
La nuit miraculeuse

To celebrate the bicentennial of the French revolution, an exposition of mannequins representing the...

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Une famille française
Une famille française

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