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Lubna Azabal

Lubna Azabal

Belgian actress
August 15, 1973 (51 years old)
Bel. 2023. Drama by Jawad Rhalib with Lubna Azabal, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée. A teacher at a Brussels high school encourages her pupils to express themselves freely, at the risk of shocking and provoking outcry.
Runtime: 107 min.

The Blue Caftan

V.O.: Le Bleu du caftan
Fr. 2022. Drama by Maryam Touzani with Saleh Bakri, Lubna Azabal, Ayoub Messioui. In Morocco, a traditional caftan tailor, married for 25 years, falls for a young apprentice he has just hired.
Runtime: 118 min.
Mar. 2019. Drama by Maryam Touzani with Lubna Azabal, Nisrin Erradi, Douae Belkhaouda. In Casablanca, the decisive meeting between a widow, mother of an 8 year old girl and who holds a pastry shop in the Medina, and a young pregnant woman.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 2018. Drama by Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloïsi with Maha Alemi, Sarah Perles, Lubna Azabal. A 20-year-old Casablanca woman in denial of her pregnancy obtains the help of her wealthy aunt to organize a quick marriage with the baby’s father.
Runtime: 86 min.
Lux. 2018. Comedy by Sameh Zoabi with Kais Nashif, Yaniv Biton, Lubna Azabal. A Palestinian intern on the set of a historical TV series becomes the scriptwriter after an Israeli officer forces him to make changes to the story.
Runtime: 97 min.

Catch the Wind

V.O.: Prendre le large
Fr. 2017. Drama by Gaël Morel with Sandrine Bonnaire, Mouna Fettou, Kamal El Amri. Refusing her redundancy payment, a worker at a textile factory in Lyon agrees instead to be relocated to a subsidiary of the group in Morocco.
Runtime: 104 min.

Above the Law

V.O.: Tueurs
Bel. 2017. Thriller by François Troukens, Jean-François Hensgens with Olivier Gourmet, Lubna Azabal, Bouli Lanners. After pulling off a daring heist, a gangster's operation is sabotaged by the surprise arrival of killers who needlessly execute witnesses.
Runtime: 83 min.
Mar. 2013. Drama by Laïla Marrakchi with Morjana Alaoui, Nadine Labaki, Lubna Azabal. In Morocco, an actress mostly hired to play terrorist roles in American series is reunited with her Muslim family for her father's funeral.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2013. History by Nabil Ben Yadir with Olivier Gourmet, Tewfik Jallab, Vincent Rottiers. In 1983, following a police blunder, young people from an underprivileged suburb of Lyon organize a march to Paris to denounce racism and advocate equality.
Runtime: 126 min.
Bel. 2012. Thriller by Nadir Moknèche with Lubna Azabal, Grégory Gadebois.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 2011. Drama by Ismaël Ferroukhi with Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmoud Shalabi. During the Occupation, an Algerian trafficker agrees to become an informant for the police, who are interested in the frequent visits of the head of the Paris Mosque.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 2011. Comedy by Renaud Bertrand with Thierry Neuvic, Lubna Azabal, Daphné Chollet. A senior executive in Paris, laid off by his firm, is forced to accept a lower position and cut back on his lifestyle.
Runtime: 90 min.
Can. 2010. Drama by Denis Villeneuve with Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette. When their mother dies, Montreal twins discover disturbing facts about her youth in a Middle Eastern country ravaged by civil war.
Runtime: 131 min.
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Fr. 2010. Thriller by Alexandre Arcady with Patrick Bruel, Vincent Elbaz, Pascal Elbé. Four successful blackfoot brothers rescue their youngest brother, a thug threatened with death by a dangerous gypsy criminal.
Runtime: 117 min.
G.-B. 2009. War drama by Nick Murphy with Stephen Graham, James Nesbitt, Warren Brown.
Runtime: 2 x 90 min
Fr. 2007. Psychological drama by Jalil Lespert with Lubna Azabal, Benoît Magimel, Bérangère Allaux. On Christmas Eve, an aimless prostitute who is forbidden to see her son placed in foster care, has a series of chance meetings.
Runtime: 85 min.

Paradise Now

V.O.: Al-Jenna-An
Pal. 2005. Drama by Hany Abu-Assad with Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal. Two Palestinian friends, mechanics in Nablus, are assigned to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2004. Psychological drama by André Téchiné with Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Gilbert Melki. An engineer tries to win back the woman he has loved for 30 years, a radio hostess based in Tangier.
Fr. 2004. Mores drama by Nadir Moknèche with Lubna Azabal, Biyouna, Nadia Kaci. While Islamists reign terror in Algiers, a widow, her daughter, and their prostitute neighbor try to find a meaning to their lives.
Runtime: 113 min.

Exiles

V.O.: Exils
Fr. 2004. Musical drama by Tony Gatlif with Romain Duris, Lubna Azabal, Leïla Makhlouf. The journey of a young Parisian couple on their way to Algeria, their native land that they barely know.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 2002. Mores drama by Michel Deville with Simon Abkarian, Lubna Azabal, Zabou Breitman. In 1946, the employees of a small garment factory in the Jewish quarter of Paris are struggling to resume a normal life after the war.
Runtime: 94 min.
Runtime: 90 min.

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