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34th European Film Awards
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The European Film Academy Honours Hiam Abbass with the EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA Award

On the occasion the 39th European Film Awards in January 2027, and in recognition of a unique contribution to the world of film, the European Film Academy takes great pleasure in presenting HIAM ABBASS with the EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA Award for her outstanding body of work.

Hiam Abbass was born in Nazareth as the child of a Palestinian family that was forced into exile in I948. She started her acting career at the Palestinian National Theatre El-Hakawati in East Jerusalem, which was often closed by the Israeli authorities. During a theatre tour through Europe, she decided to leave Palestine to London and has been living in Paris since the late 1980s.

Hiam Abbass played her first lead in 1989 in LA NUIT MIRACULEUSE by Ariane Mnouchkine. Throughout her Palestinian, Arab and international career, she has acted in over 100 films, among them SATIN ROUGE by Raja Amari, PARADISE NOW by Hany Abu-Assad, AMREEKA by Cherien Dabis, THE VISITOR by Tom McCarthy, THE LIMITS OF CONTROL by Jim Jarmush, MIRAL by Julian Schnabel, BLADE RUNNER 2049 by Denis Villeneuve, GAZA MON AMOUR by Arab and Tarzan Nasser and recently PALESTINE 36 by Annemarie Jacir and ATONEMENT by Reed Van Dyk.

Hiam Abbass was twice nominated for the European Film Awards, in both cases for her performance in films directed by Eran Riklis: She was nominated for the People’s Choice Award 2005 for SYRIAN BRIDE and for European Actress 2008 for LEMON TREE, which won her an Asia Pacific Screen Award.

Her daughter Lina Soualem’s documentary BYE BYE TIBERIAS, which returns to her home village Deir Hanna and explores her bold choices and her bond to her family, was also nominated for the European Film Awards 2024.

Her performance in IN SYRIA by Philippe Van Leeuw was nominated for the French Lumière Awards (2018). She also acted in the Hulu show RAMY and the HBO series SUCCESSION for which she received a Primetime Emmy nomination in 2023.

Apart from her work as an actress, Hiam Abbass also directs. Her film INHERITANCE played at festivals in Gijón, Sao Paulo and Venice Days (2012).

In partnership with the European Film Academy, the European culture channel ARTE is highlighting the Achievement in World Cinema Award with a special presentation of films starring Hiam Abbass: THE SYRIAN BRIDE will be shown on TV and on arte.tv and INHERITANCE and FOREIGN BODY will be made available online on arte.tv. THE SYRIAN BRIDE and INHERITANCE were co-produced by ARTE.

Hiam Abbass will be an honorary guest at the 39th European Film Awards Ceremony on 16 January 2027 in Athens – to be streamed live on www.europeanfilmawards.eu