Shadi Mar'i

After being estranged from his Druze village and family for 17 years, Yoseph returns with his two Israeli, teenage children. His marriage to a Jewish Israeli woman has just ended and he plans to settle down there. His arrival causes friction inside the closed, conservative Druze community and also with his mother Afifa, who accepts him and his children as part of her family again.

Eid, a young Bedouin from Rahat, spends his nights in Skype calls with Dounia, a married Arab actress living in Paris. Dounia is both his audience and his muse for a play he is writing about his life. When his parents force him to marry a woman he doesn’t know, Eid fears he will not be able to complete his dream. Eid will try to change his fate, determine the ending of his play himself, and tell his story—even if no one is there to listen.

Set in the cloak-and-dagger world of the IDF’s undercover special forces - the Mista'arvim - Fauda is an Israeli-produced TV drama which has garnered praise for its realistic depiction of military tactics alongside its empathetic portrayal of Palestinians, militant or otherwise. BBC Arabic joins the production of the hotly anticipated second season, and tries to understand how it might one day pave the way for a dialogue between the two sides built on mutual understanding and compassion.

A squad of terrorists infiltrate a kibbutz but find themselves trapped in the children’s nursery with hostages who are less than four years old. Told from multiple perspectives, this is the true story of that night, on April 7 1980.

The White City tells the story of an emotionally charged love triangle set in the hot political climate of modern Tel Aviv. A young couple take a winter break in Tel Aviv as an opportunity to exercise their creativity. But while Eva writes poetry and parties with friends, Kyle works on a film which expresses his own confused sexuality with Avi, a young ex-soldier; drawing Avi further into the couple’s complex relationship. The White City presents a new slant on the love triangle genre, with the backdrop of Tel Aviv as a cultural counterpoint to the American couple’s life. Cambridge Film Festival 2014 (http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk/films/2014/the-white-city)

Sassi is more than 20 years older than his wife Effi and is worried about his declining powers. Surgery has left him seeking treatment for impotence, but Effi insists she’s content with their emotional closeness. In her work as a physical therapist, though, Effi sees the link between body and heart every day. The biggest challenge to their loving relationship has been the gambling debts Sassi’s adult son keeps running up. But the couple’s fragile understanding, compounded by the presence of two young men, introduces new threats. Their teenage grandson, Omri, returns from living with his father in Europe, at loose ends and clearly in need of guidance. For one thing, he can barely stand to wear a shirt. Then a young patient turns up at the swimming pool where Effi conducts therapy sessions. He comes to confront her about something from their past, something complicated, contested, and painful to them both.

Une jeune norvégienne, Pia, est enlevée dans le désert du Sinaï avec deux israéliens. Les ravisseurs ont une demande simple : 12 prisonniers doivent être libérés en Israël et un en Norvège ; sinon, ils tueront les otages. Comme les autorités tardent à réagir, Alex, la mère de Pia, qui a des contacts au Moyen-Orient depuis l'époque où elle travaillait sur les accords d'Oslo de 1993, décide d'agir.

Un agent israélien sort de sa retraite pour traquer un militant palestinien qu'il pensait avoir tué, ce qui déclenche une série d'événements chaotiques.

Été 2014, trois adolescents juifs sont kidnappés et tués par des militants du Hamas. Deux jours plus tard, le corps brulé d’un adolescent palestinien de Jérusalem Est est retrouvé. Simon, un agent de la Division Terroriste Interne du Shin Bet, enquête sur le meurtre...

Natalie, jeune française expatriée en Israël, est accusée d’avoir assassiné son mari le soir de ses noces. Karim, un diplomate français chargé d’apporter sur place son aide à des ressortissants en difficulté, est peu à peu fasciné par Natalie. Mais il ne parvient pas à savoir si la jeune femme est profondément perdue et vulnérable, ou redoutablement manipulatrice. Obsédé par cette affaire, Karim va plonger dans le passé mystérieux de Natalie et de sa famille.