Hania Amar
Birthday: Born in in Algeria
Deathday: Alive
French-Algerian actress, born in Kabylia. She immigrated with her family to France when she was almost one year old. She holds a master's degree from Paris-Sorbonne University. She is known for The Nile Hilton Incident (2017), Lotfi (2015), and Curse of Mesopotamia (2015).
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Algiers Confidential - Ein paar Tage Licht
Character: Amel Samraoui
When two of his countrymen - arms dealers - are kidnapped, a German police investigator is sent to Algiers in search of them. Beginning a steamy affair with an Algerian prosecutor investigating the case for her country probably wasn't the best idea, but as the pair go deeper, they uncover a corruption scandal testing their loyalty to their nations and to each other....
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Shukran
Character: Fadwa
In 2011 the Syrian people rise up against the Assad regime. When Dr. Haider, a pediatric heart surgeon, loses his brother in a terrorist attack, he decides to fulfill his last wish, finding himself questioning everything he has always believed in....
Lotfi
Character: Fatima Mechiche
The film relates the career of Colonel Lotfi, whose real name is Benali Boudghene, since his beginnings as an activist in Tlemcen where, with his classmates from high school, he posted the call of 1 November 1954, addressed by National Liberation Front (FLN) to the Algerian people....
Curse of Mesopotamia
Character: Veronique/Gule
Five strangers are brought together in a remote part of the Middle East by a doctor who claims she can solve their shared dreams of a ferocious demon....
The Well
Character: Meriem Kheroubi
Women and children from a village in southern Algeria find themselves besieged by soldiers and can not get out the risk of dying. Gradually, these villagers are faced with thirst. At the point where soon arises for them the dilemma of choosing their death....
Until The Birds Return
Character: Aïcha
Algeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment and an ambitious neurologist impeded by wartime wrongdoings. Three stories that plunge us into the human soul of a contemporary Arab society....
The Nile Hilton Incident
Character: Gina
Cairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution....
Stock
Character: Translator
‘Stock’ is a genre-bending short film set in the Manchester Warehouse district. The story follows a Frenchman, newly living in the UK, who becomes caught up in an unwanted conflict with the authorities. An absurd, Post-Brexit fairy tale that plays with language, miscommunication, and European anxiety....