Manal Issa
Oyuncu · d. 1992 · Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Manal Issa is a french-libanese actress, writer, storyteller and robotics engineer.
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Film7.4DramTarihİki kız kardeş, hem yüreklerini hem de yüzme becerilerini kahramanca ortaya koyarak savaşın mahvettiği Suriye'den 2016 Rio Olimpiyatları'na uzanan bir yolculuğa çıkar.
Film5.9Dram18-year-old Lina arrives in Paris for her studies. She comes to look for what she has never found in Lebanon, her country of origin: a certain form of freedom. The survival instinct as the only baggage, she sails from one Paris to another to the rhythm of her romantic encounters.
Film6.0KomediDramTrain driver Nurlan’s heading to Baku for the last time before retirement, but on his fateful journey around the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of this perky piece of underwear. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest to find his “Cinderella”.
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Film6.4DramGerilimÇok farklı sosyal çevre, gelir düzeyi ve ırklara mensup bir grup genç, içindeki bulundukları topluma duydukları, farklı nedenlerden kaynaklanan tepkiden ötürü Paris'in farklı noktalarında eş zamanlı olarak bombalar patlatmaya karar verecektir. Eylemlerden sonra ise lüks bir alışveriş merkezinde saklanacaklardır.
Film6.3DramFilmin iki kahramanı, Montreal’de yaşayan Maia ile ergen yaşlardaki kızı Alex. Bir Noel günü anne-kızın evlerine Maia’nın 1980’lerde Beyrut’ta arkadaşına emanet ettiği günceleri, kasetler ve fotoğraflarla dolu bir kutu gelir. Maia geçmişini kurcalamayı reddetse de kızı Alex için bu kutu annesinin Lübnan iç savaşı sırasındaki çalkantılı, yoğun duygularla dolu gençlik günlerinin gizemini çözecek ipuçlarıyla doludur.
Film4.4DramParis, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enjoy their crazy love under the neon lights of the decadent nightclub Le Palace, where they establish an ambiguous relationship with Lucille and Hubert, two bohemian bourgeois who will change their lives.
Film5.0DramThe exits of a Berlin courtyard are blocked by the police due to an ambiguous event outside and a state of emergency occurs. Among the residents of the building, insecurities start to pump fear. Suspicion takes over panic, prejudices bring polarization and another question appears: Is the real danger coming from inside or outside?
Film5.5DramFollowing an accident on a set, a director tries to pick up the pieces of reality.
Film5.5KomediDramJoseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is losing control of his life. Joachim is supposed to be studying psychiatry but spends most of his time daydreaming about his ex-girlfriend, Ivan cannot fit in at school despite being very smart, and Joseph has secretly quit his job as a doctor and is trying to become a writer. While there is plenty of affection at home, all three are also, clumsily, searching for love...
Film6.0DramIn 2006, as Israeli shells relentlessly rain down on Beirut, Sariah (13), her older sister Nayla, and their mother take refuge in the mountains, making sure not to mention the war raging in Lebanon. Sharp tensions between the three women soon resurface, and the rivalry between the two sisters escalates when Nayla's boyfriend pays her a visit.
2006
2024 · 1 votes
Film7.0DramLebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: to stage the play Antigone on the front line, in order to steal a moment of peace from the raging civil war. The characters will be played by actors from different political and religious camps. Lost in a city and a conflict he knows nothing about, Georges is guided by Marwan. As fighting resumes, everything is soon called into question, and Georges, who falls in love with Imane, has to face up to the reality of war.
Film5.5DramŞam’da bir giyim mağazasında çalışan 25 yaşındaki Nahla yaşadığı sıradan hayatın boğuculuğundan kaçma hayalleri kurmaktadır. Annesi onu görücü usulü evlendirmek isteyince Nahla oralı olmaz. Madam Jiji’nin üst katta açtığı “işletme”, bastırılmış cinselliği benliğinin ötesine geçen Nahla için arzularını keşfedeceği bir sığınak olur.
Film4.6DramUlysses, a secluded artist who mysteriously retired a few years ago, meets Mona, a young art student full of life. The encounter will change them both.
Film4.2DramA young woman makes her way back home to her parents’ house in the middle of the night leaving a bad experience behind. Haunting pressures to fit back into the family dynamics as well as revealing details of her life abroad weigh heavy on her. Feeling cornered, her anxieties resurface, leading her to find solace in another part of her Beirut life that she had forsaken. A life that is for her as familiar and foreign now as it ever was.
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A feature film set over the course of one restless night in Beirut, the film follows Nuhad, who hires a struggling cameraman with his last US$ 300 to document what he believes will be a defining turning point in his life. As they drift through the city, a series of awkward encounters, impulsive detours, and disarming confessions begin to unravel his carefully constructed plan. What starts as a controlled narrative gradually gives way to something more intimate and unpredictable, revealing a tender, often darkly funny portrait of two men circling questions of purpose, identity, and connection. Grounded in the rhythms and contradictions of contemporary Beirut, the film balances humor and vulnerability, offering a quietly affecting story about the unexpected moments that can shift how we see ourselves and each other.
Peanuts
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FilmVideo #2 of Finite Rants, a series of eight visual essays commissioned by Fondazione Prada and curated by Luigi Alberto Cippini and Niccolò Gravina. Bertrand Bonello reworks the last minutes of his 2016 film Nocturama, which documents the logistical operations and the organization of terrorist attacks in Paris by a group of teenagers. Starting with "Où en êtes-vous?", a video commissioned by the Centre Pompidou in 2014 and conceived as a letter to his then 11-year-old daughter, the director makes a new work altering the final sequence of Nocturama and completely modifying the textual component and the soundtrack in this video essay as a second letter written for his now 17-year-old daughter.
Film6.2DramIn 1983, French actress Maria Schneider gives an interview for the TV show Cinéma Cinémas. The conversation takes an unexpected turn when she challenges film industry practices and is asked to talk about the controversial film Last Tango in Paris (1972).
Maria Schneider, 1983
2022 · 6 votes
Film3.2DramMalek, a Lebanese immigrant from Montreal, is haunted by the violent death of his sister. Convinced that he could have avoided this tragedy, he is consumed with guilt. He lives alone, poor, jobless until he meets Shohreh, an Iranian girl, with whom he falls in love. A new life opens up to him and he quickly finds work. Malek gradually regains his dignity but the past resurfaces to the point where he is pushed, almost in spite of himself, to finally settle his accounts with himself.
Malek
2019 · 4 votes
Film5.0DramIn post-war Lebanon, Ida, a young Lebanese girl, flees her small village and her alcoholic mother and goes to the big city. There, she starts dating a European man not knowing what is in store for her.
Film10.0KomediFantastikFour darkly funny tales about Lebanon: Activists planning a protest descend into internal strife. Three sisters and their mother argue while an incompetent plumber destroys their flat. Depressed life coach Malek wants to die and seeks help from a «death coach». A stand-up comedian who jokes about a meteor strike that could put Lebanon out of its misery, is blamed when it appears to come true.
FilmDramSet in the desolate wreckage of Beirut’s Piccadilly Theater after decades of war, the film recounts three days in the life of a writer and actors. As they seek to revive the ghostly theater with a production of Sophocles’ Elektra, the actors witness the vivid dreams of the writer who has to confront the contempt and lies of the two-faced actors and ultimately her own murder.
Elektra
2023