Lubna Azabal
Lubna Azabal is a Belgian actress, born in Brussels to a Moroccan father and a Spanish mother. After studing at the Conservatoire royal of Brussels, she began a theatrical career in Belgium. In 1997, she took her first film role when Belgian film-maker Vincent Lannoo chose her to act beside Olivier Gourmet in his short film J'adore le cinéma. She performs in both French and Arabic films. She was raised trilingual (French, Spanish and Berber). She also speaks fluent English and Arabic. Her most widely known role is in the 2005 Golden Globe-winning Palestinian political thriller, Paradise Now. She can also be spotted in a smaller role in Ridley Scott's recent film Body of Lies. Azabal won the Black Pearl Award 2010 (Abu Dhabi Film Festival) for Best Actress for her role in the film Incendies. She also won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the 31st Genie Awards.
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Movie pageIncendies
as NawalA mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of...
Movie pageMary Magdalene
as SusannahIn the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged...
Movie pageRebel
as LeilaKamal resolves to change his life for the better, and so leaves Belgium to help victims of the...
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Movie pageHeadwinds
as La mère de YamineSarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later...
Movie pageParadise Now
as SuhaTwo childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
Movie pageAmal: A free spirit
as AmalAn idealistic and passionate literature teacher in a suburban Brussels school becomes the target...
Movie pageThe Blue Caftan
as MinaHalim has been married to Mina for a long time, with whom he runs a traditional caftan store in...
Movie pageSomewhere in Love
as NorahNicole and her son Serge live in a low-income housing estate in the Paris suburbs, where their...
Movie pageMaldoror
as uncreditedBelgium, 1995. The disturbing disappearance of two young girls upsets the population and...
Movie pageAbove the Law
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Movie pageYou Promised Me the Sea
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Movie pageA Bluebird in My Heart
as NadiaAn ex-con's attempts to live a quiet life are derailed when the daughter of the woman sheltering...
Movie pageSimone: Woman of the Century
as Hafsia HamdadSimone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her...
Movie pageComme les 5 doigts de la main
as Amel ZeroualFive brothers similar yet different, raised by a mother widowed too early. One of them had left...
Movie pageTel Aviv on Fire
as TalaSalam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a...
Movie pageThe Marchers
as KheiraIn 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the...
Movie pageBuğday
as BeatriceThe global corporations have established cities and agricultural zones in areas where the...
Movie pageFor My Country
as NadiaAissa, a young officer of Algerian origin, tragically loses his life during a fresher initiation...
Movie pageChanging Times
as NadiaIn Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to...
Movie pageSofia
as LeilaSofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds...
Movie pageRabia
as MadameDriven by the promise of a new life, Jessica (19) and her best friend Laila left for Syria to...
Movie pageI Am Slave
as HaleemaBased on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia,...
Movie page24 Bars
as HellyIt is Christmas Eve. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man,...
Movie pageRock the Casbah
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Movie pageAdam
as AblaAbla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her...
Movie pageLola Pater
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Movie pageOccupation
as Aliya NabilThree ex-servicemen return to Basra, each for a different reason.
Movie pageExiles
as NaimaOne day Zano suggest a crazy idea to his companion Naïma: travel across France and Spain down to...
Movie pageBajo el mismo cielo
as FathiaA pair of Moroccan immigrants in Spain splits apart. He returns to Morocco because he only find...
Movie pageFree Men
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Movie pageAram
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Movie pageJoaquin Phoenix: An Actor of Extremes
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Movie pageViva Algeria
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Movie pageGoodbye Morocco
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Movie pageStrangers
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Movie pageHere
as Gadarine NazarianSet against the gorgeous landscape of Armenia, Here chronicles a brief but intense relationship...
Movie page25 Degrees in Winter
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Movie pageLight Thereafter
as SoumayaPavel, an emotionally volatile and socially alienated young man, sets off across Europe in...
Movie pageAlmost Peaceful
as JacquelineSet during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a...
Movie pageSisters
as Angela Di BiaggioLyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they...
Movie pageHellhole
as SamiraThree starkly different people deal with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Brussels in...
Movie pageCatch the Wind
as NadiaEdith, a 45-year-old textile factory worker, sees her life turned upside down by the company’s...
Movie pageFar Away
as SarahSerge is a long distance lorry driver between Morocco andEurope. In Tangier, he tries to...
Movie pageMy Revolution
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Movie pageLes siestes Grenadine
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Movie pageThe Love
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Movie pageLife Suits Me Well
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Movie pageChampion
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Movie pageBetelgeuse
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Movie pageRuby Is Dead
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as uncreditedPierre-Antoine has a senior position at a famous consultancy firm. When his bosses are arrested...
Movie pageA Minute of Sun Less
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Movie pagePure fiction
as uncreditedFilm based on the infamous 'Marc Dutroux' case that shook Belgium to its core.
Movie pageLockdown
as FarahIn his own natural habitat, the infamous Brussels' neighbourhood Molenbeek that appeared in the...
Movie pageThe Crimson Rivers
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TV Show pageGanglands
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TV Show pageThe Little Drummer Girl
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TV Show pageThe Traveller
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TV Show pageThe Honourable Woman
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TV Show pageThe Collapse
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TV Show pageThe Frozen Dead
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TV Show pageCheyenne & Lola
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TV Show pageAccusé
as SamiaSix stories about six people facing accusations in court.
TV Show pageSuite noire
as CristaStep into a world of seedy seduction, sinister plots, bloody murder, and hard vengeance: the...
TV Show pageTrepalium
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TV Show pageOccupation
as Aliya NabilA powerful, affecting drama that spans the five years following the invasion of Iraq in 2003....
TV Show pageBanking District
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