Known for Acting
Born
January 1, 1972 (age 54)
Birthplace
Morocco
Filmography
24 films, 6 shows


Everybody Loves Touda
2024 · 1h 42m
country: Belgium
Touda is a Sheikha, a traditional Moroccan singer. Performing in the bars of her provincial town under the gaze of men, she plans to leave for the lights of Casablanca in search of recognition and to ensure a better future for her deaf-mute son.


404.01
2024 · 1h 46m
country: Unknown
A surgeon named Amna receives orders via a sound wave coming from the future asking her to carry out a set of requests that will be reflected in the future. Over time, Amna becomes involved in the murder of a child and discovers the facts one by one.


The Divorcees Of Casablanca
2023 · 1h 54m
country: Morocco
Five women from the great city of CASABLANCA, a source of economic, social, and civilizational progress. There are five divorced women from different social strata, and are professionally active in various fields. These women try to rebuild their lives, in an unequal society, dominated by prejudices against divorced women, and ignorance of the rules of law governing the status of women.


Asmahane
2023 · 1h 42m
country: Morocco
“Asmahane” recounts the story of a Lebanese girl who fled her country after losing her family to war, to become a belly dancer in Morocco, fitting in seamlessly into the north African country’s culture. The events take place in a scary Casablanca, where the main character, a Christian Lebanese woman, forges connections with Moroccans on her way to look for a better life.


Triple A
2023 · 1h 54m
country: Morocco
Three love stories whose protagonists are neglected people whose destinies intersect in unexpected ways.


The Last Words
2023
country: Morocco
Nadia decided to end her life, so she climbed onto the roof of the psychiatric hospital where she’d been receiving treatment and threatened to jump if anyone approached—she had nothing left to lose. Hospital staff rushed to dissuade her, and Dr. Ibtisam faced the challenge of convincing this woman in her sixties, engulfed in despair, to step back from this dangerous brink. Drawing on all her experience, Dr. Ibtisam worked to restore Nadia’s trust and encourage her to open her heart and share her story.


Rhinegold
2022 · 2h 18m
country: Germany
Xatar’s way from the ghetto to the top of the charts is as dramatic as it is daring. From the hell of an Iraqi jail, Giwar Hajabi emigrated to Germany as a young boy with his family in the mid-1980s and has to start right at the bottom. There are opportunities, but far more obstacles. Giwar’s rise from petty criminal to major dealer is swift. Until one shipment goes missing. In order to clear his debts with the cartel, he plans a legendary gold heist. But just as everything goes wrong, another door opens for Giwar thanks to his passion for music …


Redemption Day
2021 · 1h 40m
country: Morocco
When his wife Kate is kidnapped by terrorists for ransom, veteran war hero Brad Paxton races against the clock to rescue her in a daring and deadly operation that pits him against powerful and dark forces.


Casablanca
2019 · 1h 45m
country: Egypt
Three friends form a gang of pirates, “Sea Burglars”, get assigned to a mission against the Mob, after a large cargo of diamonds was heisted. Things turn into a web of rivalries and paybacks, when one one of them decides to do the mission on his own and escape to Morocco.


Close
2019 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
A counter-terrorism expert takes a job protecting a young heiress. After an attempted kidnapping puts both of their lives in danger, they must flee.


Operation Red Sea
2018 · 2h 18m
country: China
A squad of the Jiaolong Commando Unit - Sea Dragon, a spec ops team of the Chinese Navy, carries out a hostage rescue operation in the nation of Yewaire, on the Arabian Peninsula, and fiercely fights against local rebel groups and Zaka, a terrorist organization.


Lost in agadir
2017 · 1h 17m
country: Morocco
Hakim is an honest police officer deeply devoted to his daughter, finding great joy and happiness in her company. One day, his daughter is kidnapped. Hakim does everything in his power to find her, set her free, and bring her kidnappers to justice.


El Bayda
2016
country: Morocco


Rock the Kasbah
2015 · 1h 40m
country: Morocco
A washed-up music producer finds one last shot at redemption with a golden-voiced young girl in Afghanistan. However, when jealousy gets the better of a disgruntled ex-boyfriend, he decides to oppose the young star with talent of his own.


Queen of the Desert
2015 · 2h 8m
country: Morocco
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.


The Gospel of Mark
2015 · 2h
country: Morocco
The Gospel of Mark filmed by The Lumo Project which brings the original Jesus narrative to the screen using the Gospel text as its script, word for word. Informed by leading world experts' latest theological, historical and archaeological research on every aspect of life in first century Palestine, this is a ground breaking multi-million pound film series that revolutionises the way we experience and understand the story of Jesus.


The Gospel of Luke
2015 · 3h 25m
country: Morocco
THE GOSPEL OF LUKE, more than any other, fits the category of ancient biography. Luke, as "narrator" of events, sees Jesus as the "Savior" of all people, always on the side of the needy and the deprived. Narrated in the NIV by British actor Richard E. Grant and in the KJV by Sir Derek Jacobi, this epic production featuring specially constructed sets and the authentic countryside of Morocco has been critically acclaimed by leading religious scholars as a unique and highly authentic telling of the Jesus story.
The Birthday
The Birthday
2014 · 2h
country: Unknown
During a reception organized on the occasion of Ghita's 44th anniversary, friends and family members of Said and Ghita will be confronted with unexpected events serious enough to provoke disturbing reactions, starting points of questioning the little material and emotional comforts by which all this little world was surrounded.
Histoires de l'âge d'or islamique
Histoires de l'âge d'or islamique
2013
country: United Kingdom


The Red Moon
2013 · 1h 57m
country: Morocco
The biography of Abdel Salam Amer, the blind Moroccan musician who believed in his talent and composed immortal songs in the history of Moroccan song.


Femme écrite
2012 · 1h 27m
country: Morocco
Naïm, a renowned anthropologist, wants to make a film on beautiful Mririda, a Berber poet and courtesan who mesmerizes him. At the brothel where she used to go, Naïm is struck by the beauty, the sensuous tattoos of young prostitute Adjou. He immediately feels bound in his flesh and soul to Adjou, a kind of mirror image to Mririda. Adjou’s brutal murder triggers a police investigation. In his desperate search for truth, Naïm sways between a world of imagination and reality. Lazcen Zinoun is the conductor of a film composed like a five-movement opus framed by tribal rituals and practices like the mysterious, erotic tattooing of women. He sings the hymn of freedom for women to control their own bodies in a society still paralyzed by ancient codes. He films Fatym Layachi’s goddess-like body with the same poetry and lyricism as he does the sexual passion that enflames the lovers.


3 Girls
2011 · 1h 32m
country: Unknown
Three women navigate different ways of making a living after graduating from university


Pegasus
2010 · 1h 44m
country: Morocco
Zineb is a psychiatrist assigned to Rihana, a traumatized and pregnant young woman, who was raised as a son by her dictatorial father. Rihana's story awakens repressed thoughts in Zineb's own mind.


Mogadischu
2008 · 1h 48m
country: Germany
The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified passengers throughout the harrowing ordeal. When terrorists sympathetic to the cause of the German Red Army Faction seize control of the flight, German chancellor Helmut Schmidt refuses to negotiate. Meanwhile, terrorist leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud" grows increasingly agitated, and the Yemeni government refuses to let the plane land on their soil. After Captain Schumann (Thomas Kretschmann) makes an emergency landing in the sand, he is brutally executed in front of the passengers by "Captain Martyr Mahmud" (Said Taghmaoui), who then forces the co-pilot to fly the plane to Somolia. Once there, counter terrorism measures quickly get underway as the passengers brace themselves for the worst.