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Reveling in her roles

Tuesday, 11 P.M., an events hall on the outskirts of Daliat al-Carmel. Imposing lighting poles stand on the dance floor and a camera moves along a track installed on the stage. Cheerful Arab music is playing loudly, a wedding singer in a black shirt and dazzling shoes is singing on the stage, and scores of festively dressed guests are sitting around decorated tables clapping their hands and smiling at the energetic group capering on the dance floor.

And only if you really try can you discern nearly invisible activity, including whispers and angry looks, familial tensions reaching the boiling point in the center of the jolly rejoicing on the dance floor.

The moment someone calls "Cut!," the noise dies down a bit, and a woman in a black dress gets up from the main table. Her flip-flops, which had been hidden under the tablecloth, take her quickly to the monitor standing at the entrance to the events hall. Actress Hiam Abbass sits down in front of the monitor and watches the scene that has just been filmed. A hairdresser comes up to her and starts fixing her coiffure. Abbass objects, but the diligent worker insists on doing her job.

"There's no need. We'll fix it afterwards. They're filming me now from really far away," explains Abbass, pleasantly but assertively, and the hairdresser gives up and goes away.

Abbass again lifts the hem of her dress and starts running around the dance floor. Speaking in Arabic, she instructs the actors participating in the scene about the next take, and calls out instructions in fluent French to cinematographer Antoine Heberle ("Paradise Now," "Jellyfish" ). From time to time, she also segues naturally into Hebrew or English.

The crew for the film, "Hajar" (initially called "Inheritance" ) are Israeli and French, the actors are mostly Arab, and Abbass seems to be the only one fluent in all four languages on the set and able to communicate in all of them.

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