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Paul Ahmarani

Paul Ahmarani

Canadian actor
January 1, 1971 (52 years old)
Can. 2025. Dramatic comedy by Philippe Falardeau with Neil Elias, Hassan Mahbouba, Rose-Marie Perreault. On his wedding day with a Quebec woman, a son of Lebanese immigrants from Egypt, who suffers from insomnia, has to deal with an unreliable best man, who is also his cousin.
in theaters starting December 6th 2024 (QC)

Who by Fire

V.O.: Comme le feu
Can. 2024. Drama by Philippe Lesage with Noah Parker, Aurélia Arandi-Longpré, Arieh Worthalter. A teenager is invited by his friend's family to stay at an estate deep in the woods where a reclusive filmmaker lives.
Runtime: 161 min.
Can. 2023. Drama by Léa Pool with Sébastien Ricard, Lorena Handschin, Jules Porier. Left to end his life in a country devastated by war, a Quebecer puts his malaise into perspective after his arrival.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 2022. Dramatic comedy by Mariloup Wolfe with Maripier Morin, Gilbert Sicotte, Paul Ahmarani. The editor of a fashion magazine is persuaded to enter the political arena where she is appointed Minister of Culture and crosses swords with the Minister of Finance.
Runtime: 118 min.
Can. 2019. Drama by Mariloup Wolfe with Lilou Roy-Lanouette, Jeanne Roux-Côté, Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon. In the early 1970s in the Eastern Townships, tragedy strikes a small family consisting of a Romani man, a prostitute from a wealthy background, and their seven-year-old daughter.
Runtime: 114 min.
Can. 2018. Dramatic comedy by Jeannine Gagné with Margot Campbell, Paul Ahmarani, Dominique Quesnel. Travelling from the countryside to visit a friend, an affable woman in her seventies meets a morose, disillusioned man in his thirties.
Runtime: 58 min.

Genesis

V.O.: Genèse
Can. 2018. Drama by Philippe Lesage with Théodore Pellerin, Noée Abita, Pier-Luc Funk. The love affair between a teenager, a boarder at an all-boys school, and his older half-sister, a college student.
Runtime: 131 min.

Les Salopes or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin

V.O.: Les Salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau
Can. 2018. Mores drama by Renée Beaulieu with Brigitte Poupart, Vincent Leclerc, Nathalie Cavezzali. A university professor and happily married mother participates in a research project on the physiological reaction of the cells of the human body during sex.
Runtime: 97 min.
Can. 2018. Animation by Félix Dufour-Laperrière. In 1995, a few days before a second referendum on Quebec sovereignty, a nomadic 50-year-old man moves into a friend’s house in the Gaspé.
Runtime: 76 min.
Can. 2018. Drama by Sophie Dupuis with Jean-Simon Leduc, Théodore Pellerin, Maude Guérin. In a modest Montreal neighbourhood, two brothers are pressured by their uncle, a small-time drug dealer.
Runtime: 87 min.
Can. 2016. Thriller by Olivier Asselin with Lucille Fluet, Mark Antony Krupa, Paul Ahmarani. In 1944, a French scientist is tasked with eliminating a Swiss ex-lover, who allegedly developed an atomic bomb for the Germans.
Runtime: 96 min.
Can. 2015. Essay film by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson with Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Udo Kier. The crew of a submarine in distress receives a surprise visit from a wood runner (coureur des bois), whose fate is linked to that of a young amnesiac, prisoner of a pack of lycanthropes.
Runtime: 130 min.
Can. 2014. Dramatic comedy by Olivier Godin with Étienne Pilon, Rose-Maïté Erkoreka, Paul Ahmarani. In Montreal, before Christmas, a dead and resurrected police officer has the mission to bring back to his mother a young actress with amnesia, with whom he and two other men have fallen madly in love.
Runtime: 82 min.
Can. 2012. Science-fiction by Martin Villeneuve with Jacques Languirand, Caroline Dhavernas, Paul Ahmarani. In a future where human beings are about to set foot on Mars, an instrument designer and an old musician prodigy fall in love with an asthmatic photographer.
Runtime: 91 min.
Can. 2011. Docufiction by Jim Brown, Gary Burns with Paul Ahmarani, Liane Balaban. A journalist helps an isolated and morose citizen reconnect with modern society by introducing him to a number of artists, scientists and philosophers.
Runtime: 92 min.
Can. 2008. Science-fiction by Kim Nguyen with Céline Bonnier, Roy Dupuis, Jean-Nicolas Verreault. A young woman tries to understand the strange behavior of her husband, a truffle picker newly hired by a mysterious company.
Runtime: 75 min.
Can. 2008. Satire by Olivier Asselin with Lucille Fluet, Alex Bisping, Paul Ahmarani. In 1929, an uninteresting woman, listed on the stock exchange following a strange bet, causes a serious financial crisis by deciding to go on strike.
Runtime: 93 min.
Can. 2006. Dramatic comedy by Philippe Falardeau with Olivier Gourmet, Paul Ahmarani, Jean-Pierre Cassel. In search of his biological parents in Quebec, a Belgian inventor befriends a young bohemian seeking to rehabilitate the memory of his father.
Runtime: 105 min.
Can. 2005. Dramatic comedy by Sébastien Rose with Raymond Bouchard, Paul Ahmarani, David La Haye. A famous writer who has developed health problems returns to his two sons who have very different personalities.
Runtime: 110 min.

Waterfront Dreams

V.O.: Au fil de l'eau
Can. 2002. Dramatic comedy by Jeannine Gagné with Gabriel Gascon, Margot Campbell, Paul Ahmarani. During a stay in the forest, men and women recount their childhood memories and romances.
Runtime: 92 min.
Can. 2002. Fantasy by Kim Nguyen with Gregory Hlady, Paul Ahmarani, Gabriel Gascon. In Eastern Europe, in the middle of the 19th century, superstitious peasants accuse two men living in seclusion on the edge of a swamp of murder.
Runtime: 84 min.

How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause

V.O.: Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause
Can. 2002. Mores comedy by Sébastien Rose with Paul Ahmarani, Micheline Lanctôt, Lucie Laurier. The romantic and family problems of a 30-year-old student who still lives with his domineering mother and sister.
Runtime: 99 min.

The Left Side of the Fridge

V.O.: La Moitié gauche du frigo
Can. 2000. Dramatic comedy by Philippe Falardeau with Paul Ahmarani, Stéphane Demers, Geneviève Néron. In active job search, a young engineer allows his roommate to shoot a documentary about his everyday life.
Runtime: 90 min.
Can. 1999. Police comedy by Lewis Furey with Carole Laure, Nigel Bennett, Paul Ahmarani. In a dangerous urban area, the sordid murder of the mayor disrupts the lives of six eccentric characters.
Runtime: 87 min.

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