
Spider in the Web(2019)
A young operative is sent on a mission to follow an older agent who's behavior has come into question.


“Two women trapped in a safehouse where nothing is safe and no one can be trusted.”
Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent, is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. Together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg, the relationship that develops between the two women is soon exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world today. In this game of deception, beliefs are questioned, choices are made, and their fate takes a surprising turn.

Golshifteh Farahani
Lina/Mona

Neta Riskin
Naomi

Yehuda Almagor
Avner

Doraid Liddawi
Naim Quassem

Haluk Bilginer
Ahmet

Lior Ashkenazi
Gad

Mark Waschke
Bernhard

Dagmar von Kurmin
Frau Herrmann

Ronald Kukulies
Janitor

David A. Hamade
Yussef
Shelter is a thriller film released in 2017 exploring themes of mossad, secret agent, plastic surgery, safe house, hamburg, germany, desire to have children. Directed by Eran Riklis, it stars Golshifteh Farahani, Neta Riskin, Yehuda Almagor. Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent, is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. Together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg, the relationship that develops between the two women is soon exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world today. In this game of deception, beliefs are questioned, choices are made, and their fate takes a surprising turn.
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