Mouna Hawa

An award winning Palestinian actress and singer with credits ranging from theatre, stage musicals, film and television. Mouna won the 2023 Asia Pacific Screen Awards and Arab Critics Award for 'Best Performance' in Inshallah a Boy (2023) , which was Jordan's entry for the 96th Academy Awards, as well as the Ofir Award for 'Best Supporting Actress' for In Between (2016) (2016) Mouna has also starred as the lead in a number of internationally acclaimed films such as Between Heaven and Earth (2019) (2019) and A Gaza Weekend (2022) (2022). Her performance in Inshallah a Boy (2023) (2023) was highly praised by critics around the world, and earned her numerous awards at: Thessaloniki International Film Festival - Red Sea International Film Festival Award - Rotterdam Arab Film Festival and the Golden Rooster International Competition Award. Mouna graduated from the Samuel Rubin Music Conservatory and the Beit-Zvi Academy of High Performing Arts. She is fluent in 3 languages, and resides in Haifa.