Kais Nashif has been a Actor in some movies: Body of Lies is about that A CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence. In this film Kais Nashif collaborates with Golshifteh Farahani, Ridley Scott, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Mark Strong, Oscar Isaac, Ali Suliman, Alon Aboutboul, Vince Colosimo, Simon McBurney, Mehdi Nebbou, Michael Gaston, Jameel Khoury, Alexan ...der Witt, William Monahan, David Ignatius, Aicha Ameziane, Janty Yates, Marc Streitenfeld. Blue Guitar is about that A perspective on Palestinian people dealing with Israeli occupation and how this affect human relations taking it out of the place into a complete different country, Ireland, where people and powers are equal, leaving it only to their humanity. In this film Kais Nashif collaborates with Sareh Bayat, Paul Myler, Elaine Cassidy, Lauryn Canny, Johnny Ferguson, Shane Perez, Bart
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'Abu Omar' tells a tragic story - review
You probably aren’t going to see Roy Krispel’s movie Abu Omar, which opens on Thursday, and as soon as I describe the plot, you are likely going to stop reading this review.
But before you do, let me say that Kais Nashif, who plays the lead in the film, gives an extraordinary performance as a grieving father. Nashif, who won the Best Actor Award for Sameh Zoabi’s Tel Aviv on Fire at the Venice spelfilm Festival in 2018, is one of the finest actors working today and gets better with every movie.
If Abu Omar were a movie that would reach a sizable audience, he would be showered with awards for it. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an actor so fully capture the exhaustion that comes with grief, or the despair. He is a quiet, low-key actor and he does not need to do much to make your heart ache for this father whose tragic loss is made far more intense and upsetting because of the strange set of circum