Hafsia Herzi
Birthday: Born in 1987-01-25 in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
Deathday: Alive
Hafsia Herzi (born January 25, 1987) is a French actress of Algerian and Tunisian descent. She is best known for her debut role in the award-winning Franco-Tunisian feature The Secret of the Grain for which she won the award for most promising actress at the César Awards 2008, and the Marcello Mastroianni award, for best emerging actor or actress at the 64th Venice International Film Festival.
TV Credits
Victoires de la musique
Character: Self
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C ce soir, le débat
Character: Self - Guest
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Cimetière indien
Character:
Lidia Achour returns to Peranne following the disappearance of her former partner, Jean Benefro. In addition to Jean's disappearance, a series of gruesome murders pushes Lidia to investigate relentlessly, at the risk of awakening a painful past that everyone thought buried....
Vestiaires
Character: The social worker
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Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma
Character: Self - Guest
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En aparté
Character: Self - Guest
The guest of the day is received on a set, located in an apartment without an audience, and guided simply by the sound of the host's voice....
Movie Credits
Française
Character: Sofia - adult
A determined young woman goes up against the Moroccan traditions where the only way for a girl is marriage and children....
The Secret of the Grain
Character: Rym
In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant....
Singing Jailbirds
Character: Jess
Following the success of his first feature "Django", Étienne Comar confronts with "Singing Jailbirds" the life in a prison for women with music and its capacity to unite people and a repertoire of international songs....
A Man and His Dog
Character: Leïla
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means....
The King of Escape
Character: Curly Durandot
43-year-old Armand Lacourtade, a man who sells farm machines in the country, is getting sick of his homosexual life. When he encounters a young girl called Curly, he changes sides. Chased by her parents and the police, they brave all dangers to live this forbidden love and become an odd couple. But is it really what Armand dreamed about?...
My Sense of Modesty
Character: Hafsia Chouchane
Hafsia, a student in Art History, is going to have to remove her hijab for an oral exam. She goes to the Louvre to view the painting that she has to comment on....
House of Pleasures
Character: Samira
The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains....
The Source
Character: Loubna / Esmeralda
A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe....
The Rabbi's Cat
Character: Zlabya, rabbi's daughter (voice)
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter....
Jimmy Rivière
Character: Sonia
Jimmy Rivière is a young Gypsy, has a sunny but nervous disposition. Sometimes too nervous. Under pressure from his community, he converts to Pentacostalism and renounces his two passions: Thai boxing and Sonia. But how can he refuse the new fight that his trainer proposes? And how can he resist the powerful desire that draws him to Sonia?...
Buried Secrets
Character: Aicha
A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors....
Joseph et la fille
Character: Julie
Joseph has just spent 20 years in prison. After being released, he has only one obsession: to make one last heist. To perform this masterpiece, he needs an accomplice. He cannot trust anyone, so decides to prepare Julie, 20 years old. The confusion and uncertainty, however, stand between these two beings so opposite ......
Inheritance
Character: Hajar
A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of their daughters, as war rages between Israel and Lebanon. Internal conflicts explode between the family - secrets are revealed and lies are unmasked. The battles between different family members become as merciless as the outside war once their father falls into a coma and inches toward death....
The Gravity
Character: Sabrina
As a mysterious planetary alignment sets the sky on fire, two brothers are reunited with a childhood friend....
On My Way
Character: Jeanne
Deneuve plays sassy grandmother Bettie who takes to the road after being betrayed by her lover and learning her business is on the verge of bankruptcy on the same day. During a weeklong odyssey across France, she spends time with a grandson she hardly knows and reconnects with her past as former Miss Brittany through a reunion for former beauty queens....
Visiting Hours
Character: Mina Hirti
Alma, alone in her big townhouse, and Mina, a single mother from a housing project in another city, have organized their lives around the prison visits they make to their respective partners. When the two women meet in the room outside the visiting area, an unlikely friendship begins......
Exit Marrakech
Character: Karima
When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and son will lose each other for good, or find one another again....
Sueur
Character:
Director Abdellatif Kechiche’s reedit of Rym’s belly-dancing sequence in THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN, a visual and aural interpretation of that film’s passionate climax....
The Bag of Flour
Character: Sarah
Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in a Catholic orphanage in 1970s Belgium, through her rebellious, poverty-stricken teens in a village in the Atlas mountains of Morocco....
The Marchers
Character: Monia
In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for equality and against racism, over 1,000 km between Marseille and Paris . Despite the difficulties and resistance encountered, their movement will bring about a real boost of hope in the way of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. They unite with their arrival more than 100 000 people from all walks of life and give France its new face....
War Story
Character: Hafsia
Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she wanders the streets, snapping pictures of refugees as if her camera were both weapon and olive branch. Struggling to confront her demons, Lee resolves to help a beautiful young woman in need....
Borgo
Character: Melissa
Melissa is an experienced, exemplary prison guard. But a dangerous spiral is set into motion when she transfers to a Corsican jail, where she accepts help and protection from inmate Saveriu to get her bearings. Upon his release, he contacts Melissa expecting to collect....
Pour Djamila
Character: Djamila Boupacha
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The Rapture
Character: Lydia
Lydia, a midwife very invested in her work, is in the middle of a breakup. At the same time, her best friend, Salomé, announces to her that she is pregnant and asks her to follow her pregnancy. The day Lydia meets Milos, a one-night stand, while she is holding her friend's baby in her arms, she sinks into a lie, at the risk of losing everything....
Certifiée Halal
Character: Kenza Boukamache
In the Maghreb, Hajj Achour's plans for his daughter Sultana's marriage unravel when a defective dowry takes center stage. Meanwhile, in France, activism meets family tradition as Kenza confronts gender norms, leading to a chaotic wedding where secrets collide....
Dawn of the World
Character: zahra
The Mesopotamian Marshes, at the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in the south of Iraq. This is where Mastour and Zahra grow up. Shortly after their marriage, Mastour and Zahra are forced to separate when the Gulf War breaks out. On the battlefield, Mastour befriends Riad, a young soldier from Baghdad. Mortally wounded, Mastour makes Riad promise to protect Zahra when the war is over. When Riad arrives in the village, he falls deeply in love with Zahra. But unable to bear the loss of he...
Paris monopole
Character: Sabrinette
Sabrinette, vitim of the crisis, looks for a flat. Not easy to find when we are a temporary worker, young, with untidy hair, or too much this, or not enough that. An injustice made for one is a threat made for all. When we look with the plan of Monopoly, we necessarily hope to fall on the lucky square....
Par accident
Character: Amra
One evening, Amra, a young Algerian living in France, accidentally runs over a pedestrian. Riddled with guilt and the certainty that she will lose her French identity papers, Amra is miraculously proved innocent by Angélique, a beautiful redhead who is as open and without any hang-ups as Amra is unsociable and introverted. The two young women become friends, but then Angélique's attitude becomes increasingly strange, indeed, even troubling......
My New Friends
Character: Julia
Police officer Lucie’s solitary daily life is disturbed by the arrival of a young couple and their little girl who move in next door. As she grows fond of them, she discovers that the father is an anti-police activist....
Sex Doll
Character: Virginie
Set in London's world of high class call girls, Amoureux Solitaires tells the story of London based French escort Virginie, and Rupert, a man who rescues trafficked girls....
Des Plans Sur La Comète
Character: Franck
Two small time crooks brothers fall apart when they both meet very different women...
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
Character: Camélia
Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, to a fishing village in the South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday. Enchanted by the many female characters who surround him, Amin remains in awe of these summer sirens while his di...
Of Skin and Men
Character: Amel
Amel is a young photographer. When she loses her husband, her life changes. Encouraged by her father-in-law, she takes a taste of life by photographing street boys. Without fear of being scandalous, she makes the choice to look at men as men look at women....
Persona non grata
Character: Iris
José Nunes and Maxime Charasse are friends and minority partners in a struggling construction company. Faced with the need to protect their interests, they make a radical decision and find themselves bound by a dark secret....
Ma compagne de nuit
Character: Marine, la femme de ménage
Julia is suffering from a terminal illness. While in hospital she encounters Marine and, taking advantage of the young woman's precarious financial situation, makes her an offer. In exchange for a weekly 1000 euro payment, Marine will accompany Julia to her death. An exclusive and singular relationship forms between the two women....
This Teacher
Character: Hafsia
A reunion between two childhood friends goes awry in this disquieting portrait of a young Muslim woman visiting New York for the first time....
Black Tide
Character: Chérifa
When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking....
Féminin plurielles
Character: Hafsia, student
Sweet works in a hospital as a nurse. A new patient has just been admitted. Her mysterious side and her literary tastes fascinate the young woman. Delphine, executive in the same establishment, welcomes a German photographer who came for a report. The attraction is immediate between the two women. Hafsia, who wears the veil and could be refused an exam, meets an exuberant young man whom she falls in love with. She must hide this relationship from her father ......
You Deserve a Lover
Character: Lila
Lila has just broken up with her cheating boyfriend and is disappointed, frustrated and hurt. Looking for love and intimacy, she engages in a series of short-term relationships, while her friends offer up bad advice and her ex tries to win her back....
Madame Claude
Character: Nadège
Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the French political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks....
Pygmalionnes
Character: Self - Actrice, réalisatrice
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Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
Character: Camélia
Amin returns to Sète after his studies in Paris, still dreaming of cinema. By chance, an American producer on vacation becomes interested in his project, The Essential Elements of Universal Existence, and wants his wife Jess to be the heroine. But capricious fate imposes its own rules....
Sisters
Character: Farah / Leila 22 ans
For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatising events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria to seize their last opportunity to have him...
The Blind and the Cardinal
Character: Julie
Thomas is seduced by Julie and tells her stories in which he was involved or that he witnessed. All of them pose the question of what links and binds us to each other. But are we capable of perceiving this singular and poetic mystery?...
Au-delà des murs
Character: Lina
Lina, is getting ready to go to the Baumettes' prison to attend her very first visit with her lately incarcerated boyfriend. His daughter Sofia tries to dissuade her. Their life is better without him....
Three Nights a Week
Character: Samia
When young Baptiste meets Cookie Kunty, a young Parisian drag queen, he feels compelled to start a new photographic project....
Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
Character: Camélia
It's the end of summer vacation for Amin. The young photographer spends cozy evenings with Charlotte, the ex-girlfriend of his Casanova cousin. She talks to him about literature, he photographs her. Nobody knows that they see each other, especially not Ophélie, his childhood friend, who instead confides her troubles to Amin : her father wants her to take over the family farm, her fiancé Clement will return soon from Iraq for their wedding, she is pregnant with Tony’s baby, and Tony wants to keep...
Blackbird
Character: Fanny
In the depths of winter, a mysterious young woman lands in a caravan camping in the middle of a forest. There, she meets two other lonely souls: a taciturn former boxer turned hunter and a young dreamer with a passion for puzzles, working at the reception desk. By her side, a blackbird seems to follow her like a shadow, its songs resonating like an echo from the past....