Movies and TvShows featuring "israeli-arab" theme.

After receiving death threats from a gangster, a man pretends to be gay to seek protection in the gay community. The situation gets complicated when he falls in love with a drag queen and has to keep up the act to save his life.

Sand Storm tells the story of women in a patriarchal society, focusing on the themes of arranged marriage, sisterhood, and social violence. It explores the challenges faced by women in a traditional and conservative community in Israel.

Under the Bombs is a drama film set during the Israeli-Arab conflict. A woman travels to a war-torn region in search of her missing son. Along the way, she encounters the devastation caused by the bombings and the suffering of the people. Through her journey, she not only tries to find her son but also witnesses the horrors of war and the resilience of those affected.

Junction 48 follows the life of a young Palestinian rapper and his struggle to find freedom and maintain his cultural identity in a society dominated by racial conflict and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

During the 1948 War of Independence, a group of Israeli soldiers, including a Rabbi, must defend a hill against an Arab attack. The soldiers face various challenges and obstacles as they struggle to protect their position and their comrades. The film explores themes of sacrifice, faith, and the complexities of war.

On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers. Soon after, a mental hospital was built on the ruins. The first patients to be committed were Holocaust survivors. A legend says that to this day, the survivors have been communicating with the ghosts of the village. Forgiveness tells the story of David Adler, a 20-year old American-Israeli who decides to move back to Israel, only to find himself committed to a mental institution that sits on the ruins of a Palestinian village called Deir Yassin. Flashbacks and flashforwards reveal the events that led up to his hospitalization.

Bil'in Habibti is a documentary that depicts the nonviolent resistance movement against the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian village of Bil'in. The film showcases the struggles faced by Palestinians living near the Israeli-Palestinian border and sheds light on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With a focus on the Israeli-Arab relations, it highlights the complexities of the situation and the importance of nonviolent protest in achieving justice and peace. The film documents the wall that separates Palestine from Israel and follows the stories of Palestinian resistance fighters who strive for freedom and equality.

After a long night, Bashir returns home from work to find his Jewish girlfriend Karin with an unexpected baby in her arms. “We’re a family now,” she tells him, "and we'll never be apart". Bashir is torn between his will to devotionally support his girlfriend and doing the right thing by returning the baby to his mother, a foreign worker who left her child under the threat of being deported from Israel. A decision is made and the couple sets-out on a runaway journey with the baby wrapped in a blanket. As they escape the police, Bashir does his best to look after and protect both Karin and the baby, but he knows the end is near and every solution will have dire consequence. Being an Arab-Israeli with a Jewish girlfriend makes him the “usual suspect”. In the background of social and political topics such as Arabs, Jews and foreign workers, a tender love story is revealed and a delicate family is formed…

A documentary about two Israeli rap music performers, one Jewish (Kobi Shimoni, known as Subliminal) and the other Arab (Tamer Nafar, known as TN).

Documentary based on the New York Times best-selling book Epicenter by Joel C. Rosenberg.

Directed by Nizar Hassan.

A short film consisting of one scene in which three people (clearly Palestinians) are deported from their country. What happens in the film doesn’t quite look like a deportation. All its brutal externals have been peeled away, to leave the act itself exposed to a moral discussion.

The film portrays the story of Safaa Dabour, a religious Muslim from Nazareth, struggling to fulfill her dream of personal independence and to establish a cinematheque in Nazareth, the first of its kind for the Arab population in Israel. Safaa's father and husband both died while she was still a young mother of two boys and she chose to take charge of her own fate and establish the cinematheque.