Safia

The Sleeping Warrior (2012)

Actors: Ozzie Devrish (actor), Robert Reitano (actor), Chayan Sarkar (writer), Chayan Sarkar (producer), Chayan Sarkar (actor), Chayan Sarkar (director), Natalie Hoflin (producer), Natalie Hoflin (actress), Ben McNeill (miscellaneous crew), Dom Capuano (composer), Sharon Dickman (producer), Tiga Bayles (actor), Crusoe Kurddal (actor), Carlos Choconta (actor), Celestino Gianotti (editor),

Plot: Drama feature that connects Hindu Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal spirituality. This connection is felt by a Hindu man Rishi who comes to share his spiritual knowledge in Australia and realises the depth of Indigenous spirituality. Maka, an Indigenous artist can't dream anymore. Maka and his community lost their sacred land and Dreaming sites. Maka's pain engulfs the forests, rocks and water. Maka continues his tradition by telling his stories to the young Aboriginal boy Balang.

Kayd El-Nisaa (2011)

Actors: Nabila Ebeid (actress), Ahmed Bedir (actor), Ahmed Khalil (actor), Somaya El Khashab (actress), Ahmed Salama (actor), Mimi Gamal (actress), Ahmed Sakr (director), Fifi Abdo (actress), Dina Fuad (actress), Ahmed Safwat (actor), Ayten Amer (actress), Bahaa Tharwat (actor),

Kedach ethabni (2011)

Actors: Franck Sforza (composer), Fatma Zohra Zamoum (director), Fatma Zohra Zamoum (producer), Fatma Zohra Zamoum (writer), Karine Olivier (editor), Louiza Habani (actress), Abdelkader Tadjer (actor), Racim Zennadi (actor), Nourdine Alane (composer), Nadjia Debahi-Laaraf (actor), Nourdine Alane (actor),

Plot: Algiers, nowadays, Adel, 8 years old, has been taken to his grandparents Khadidja and Lounès because his parents Rachid and Safia have been quarreling. Adel was supposed to stay with his grandparents for one week end ; then another week begins and he misses school; then he feels that he has lived there for ever. Khadidja, a house wife, will try to introduce Adel to her everyday life in her apartment and Lounès, a retired man, will introduce him to the great world of animals. From day to day, the child and his grandmother hold on to the question "how big is your love" to help them get through this difficult period and grow closer to each other.

La boîte à Pépé (2009)

Actors: Bruno Lochet (actor), Romane Bohringer (actress), Husky Kihal (actor), Nozha Khouadra (actress), Philippe Rebbot (actor), Frédéric Maranber (actor), Ariane Seguillon (actress), Stéphane Soo Mongo (actor), Patrice Guillain (actor), Meryem Serbah (actress), Julie Delord (editor), Sami Zitouni (writer), Sami Zitouni (director), Dupont Stéphanie (actress), Soraya Djafri (actress),

Banlieue 13 - Ultimatum (2009)

Actors: Luc Besson (producer), Romuald Drault (miscellaneous crew), Marc Leroyer (miscellaneous crew), Luc Besson (writer), Emilie Maison (miscellaneous crew), Philip Hersh (actor), Nicky Marbot (actor), Philippe Torreton (actor), Daniel Duval (actor), Moussa Maaskri (actor), Christian Sinniger (actor), Lise Lamétrie (actress), Gianni Manno (miscellaneous crew), Xavier De Guillebon (actor), Frans Boyer (actor),

Plot: After a successful mission against drug lords, the efficient Captain Damien Tomaso is framed at home with three kilograms of heroin planted by the police in his kitchen and he is arrested. Meanwhile a group of teenagers film the action of dirty agents led by Roland from the security agency executing policemen in their car and then leaving the car with the corpses in the 13th District to blame the gangs and begin a civil war. Behind these events, the corrupt chief of the security agency Walter Gassman had received a huge amount as kickback from the constructor Harriburton that has interest to construct buildings in the poor area and uses the situation to force the President of France to authorize to nuke five towers in the district. The teenager with the film is hunted by the police but he delivers the memory card to Leito meanwhile Damien calls him from the precinct asking for help. The friends team-up with five dangerous bosses to gather evidences to prove to the president that Gassman has provoked the conflict in their district.

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La graine et le mulet (2007)

Actors: Carole Franck (actress), Claude Berri (producer), Pierre Grunstein (producer), Bruno Lochet (actor), Olivier Loustau (actor), François Guerrar (miscellaneous crew), Sylvie Coen (miscellaneous crew), Sabrina Ouazani (actress), Hafsia Herzi (actress), Benhaïssa Ahouari (actor), Abdellatif Kechiche (writer), Abdellatif Kechiche (director), Nicole Heitzmann (miscellaneous crew), Dominique Arcé (miscellaneous crew), Gilles Matheron (actor),

Plot: At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the schisms and tensions that are easily sparked off and that financial difficulties make even more intense. He is going through a delicate period in his life and, recently, everything seems to make him feel useless: a failure. He wants to escape from it all and set up his own restaurant. However, it appears to be an unreachable dream given his meager, irregular salary that is not anywhere near enough to supply what he needs to realize his ambition. But he can still dream and talk about it with his family in particular. A family that gradually gives its support to this project, which comes to symbolize the means to a better life. Thanks to its ingeniousness and hard work, this dream soon becomes a reality...or almost....

Zim and Co. (2005)

Actors: Pierre Jolivet (actor), Michel Fortin (actor), Nathalie Richard (actress), Pierre Jolivet (director), Pierre Jolivet (writer), Vincent Grass (actor), Guilaine Londez (actress), Eric Prat (actor), Nicky Marbot (actor), Simon Michaël (writer), Jean-Claude Frissung (actor), Frédéric Bourboulon (producer), Francis Leplay (actor), Nicolas Marié (actor), Maggie Perlado (miscellaneous crew),

Safia et Sarah (2004)

Actors: Catherine Giron (actress), Adel Bencherif (actor), Jeanne Talbot (actress), Caroline Fourest (director), Caroline Fourest (writer), Fiammetta Venner (producer), Delphine Genest (editor), Juliet Gavison-Chauveau (actress), Paula Lezinska (actress), Mathilde Pauthiers (actress), Louisa Ferhat (actress), Fatiha Temmouri (actress), Mounir Mhamdi (actor), Mickaël Lude (actor), Sébastien Donati (composer),

La anam (1958)

Actors: Salah Abouseif (director), Yehia Chahine (actor), Imad Hamdi (actor), Omar Sharif (actor), Faten Hamama (actress), Hind Rostom (actress), Rushdy Abaza (actor), Mariam Fakhr Eddine (actress), El Sayed Bedeir (writer), Ihsan Abd al-Qudus (writer), Fouad El-Zahry (composer), Saleh Gawdat (writer),

Plot: An adult drama telling the story of the spoiled rich girl Nadia (Hamama) who gets jelous after finding her dad marrying the perfect faithful woman. She sets a story of her having an affair with her uncle. Living with the feeling of guilt she sets up a marriage for her dad with her spoiled friend who happens to have a true affair this time. Feeling that god is punishing her for her deads, she is living at the same time a love story with a man double her age.

I Never Sleep (1957)

Actors: Salah Abouseif (director), Yehia Chahine (actor), Imad Hamdi (actor), Faten Hamama (actress), Hind Rostom (actress), Rushdy Abaza (actor), Mariam Fakhr Eddine (actress), Fouad El-Zahry (composer), Ihsan Abdel Quddous (writer),

Plot: 'I Never Sleep' (also called 'Sleepless') is the story of Nadia Lotfi (Faten Hamama), a teenage girl raised by her father after her mother's untimely death. Her lifelong lack of a mother figure turns Nadia into a scheming troublemaker who causes problems at her boarding school. When she returns home, she learns that her father (Yehia Chahine) has re-married. Furious Nadia decides to set a plan in motion to get rid of her unsuspecting step-mother (Mariam Fakhr Eddine).