Souad Amidou
Nacimiento : 1959-07-04, Nanterre, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Historia
Souad Amidou (born 4 July 1959) is a French actress.
She is the daughter of the actor Amidou. Her career started working with her father on the short film Le thé à la menthe in 1963. Then she was chosen by Claude Lelouch to play the daughter of Anouk Aimée in Un homme et une femme in 1966.
When she was younger, she followed acting lessons from Anicette Fray. She followed her training at the "New Square Sylvia Monfort" then continued at Jean-Louis Martin-Barbaz, then with John Strasberg and Andreas Voutsinas.
From the early 1980s, she was acting in cinema and television. She became popular with her role in Le Grand frère from Francis Girod that got her a nomination for the Caesar of the best female hope. She also worked under the direction of Gérald Oury, Jacques Deray, Ariel Zeitoun, Gérard Lauzier and Steven Spielberg.
On 23 December 1987 she married the director Fabien Onteniente; the couple broke up on 15 March 1991.
She received the Legion of Honour decoration in 2008.
In 2009, she directed the first short film Camille and Jamila, but she proved her talent as a filmmaker with her second film Rendez-vous avec Ninette, presented in many festivals.
Souad Amidou is vegan, member of the sponsorship committee of the Institut citoyen du cinéma and member of the NGO Vegan Marathon.
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Karine, a housekeeper of 34, is the full-time mother of 17 year-old Ziggy. When the company that employed her is taken over, subject to the laws of capitalism, Karine will have to choose between being true to herself, or lie to protect herself and her family.
Odile
In the jungle that is celibacy and dating apps, Zoé just found the man of her life. An idyll which lasts - 2 hours - before Robinson falls into a coma. One misunderstanding later, she is now engaged to this man and responsible for his two children while he is hospitalized. Playing along, Zoé will have to play the perfect girlfriend to man she barely knows - But along the line of lies and time passed in the world of this charming stranger, won't she end up by believing in this love? What will happen once Robinson wakes up?
Sabine Bernel
Damien estuvo a punto de seguir los pasos de su padre antes de convertirse en abogado. Está a punto de hacer una exitosa carrera política antes de quedar devastado por la pérdida de su hija Anaïs.
Françoise Gauthier, la fille d'Anne
Se conocieron mucho tiempo atrás. Un hombre y una mujer, cuya historia de amor fulgurante, inesperada, atrapada en un paréntesis, acabaría revolucionando nuestra forma de ver el amor. Hoy, ese antiguo piloto de carreras se pierde por los caminos de su memoria. Para ayudarle, su hijo irá a buscar a aquella mujer que su padre no fue capaz de conservar, pero a la que rememora continuamente. Y todo para retomar su historia allí donde la habían dejado.Comedia dramática escrita y dirigida por Claude Lelouch (Chacun sa vie, Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi) que protagonizan Jean-Louis Trintignant (Amor), Anouk Aimée (Silencio de amor), Marianne Denicourt (Un doctor en la campiña), Souad Amidou (7, rue de la Folie) y Monica Bellucci (Mozart in the Jungle).
Fatima
Comedy about a muslim and how is (expected) to behave.
Maléké
The life of a Middle-East family of immigrants in Europe. The father carries the heavy burden of banishment. To rescue his culture, his traditions, is mandatory, so he remains faithful to his past, his origins, to himself. His daughter is now a grown-up. He worries and wishes she would get married soon. The young woman leaves the family home every morning, but changes her clothes in a bar before she goes to work, her hair down. She puzzles the young boss of the company that employs her. He fell in love and is ready to do anything to marry her. But the young woman keeps her freedom of choice, just like her mother had done with her father. She won’t have time to introduce the only man for her to her parents. A friend of her father’s catches them. In a cafe.
Ruth Elkaim
En 1960, los judíos marroquíes empezaron a emigrar en masa a Israel, alentados por los agentes de inmigración del nuevo estado. La pelicula cuenta en clave de drama la historia de dos familias, una judía y otra musulmana, unidas por una estrecha amistad pero cuyos destinos se separan. Seleccionada por Marruecos como candidata al Oscar 2008 a la mejor película de habla no inglesa.
La mère
10-year-old Saïd, a child of Algerian immigrants, is talented, motivated and would like to be a good student. But the conditions at the collège he attends in the Parisian banlieue hardly give him a chance. And then he is drawn into the criminal machinations of his brother.
Yussef's Wife
Basada en hechos reales. Tras el asesinato de varios atletas israelíes por el grupo terrorista "Septiembre negro" en los Juegos Olímpicos de Múnich de 1972, un agente especial del Mossad tuvo que ejecutar una misión altamente secreta: asesinar a los responsables.
la femme de chambre
Valentín (Jeremy Irons) es un ladrón de joyas inglés, un escurridizo maestro que ha atracado las joyerías más importantes de Europa, usando como arma principal su irresistible encanto. Jane Lester (Patricia Kaas) es una bella cantante de jazz, que se recupera de un fracaso amoroso. Ambos se conocen en un momento en el que padecen preocupantes lagunas de memoria y sólo buscan paz y descanso.
Fabienne
A Fleury-Mérogis, un match de foot a lieu dans la cour de prison. Tibor Kovacs, un jeune Hongrois, fait des prodiges avec le ballon. Véritable virtuose du football, il rêve de jouer en équipe de France. Pour Manu, son compagnon de cellule, Tibor est un cadeau du ciel. A la veille de leur sortie de prison, les deux compères décident d'unir leurs destins : Tibor deviendra le plus grand joueur du mon
Radhia
Ser profesor en un barrio conflictivo de París puede entrañar ciertos riesgos, cosa que pronto experimentará Laurent, un profesor de Geografía e Historia que siempre estuvo en escuelas de provincia.
L'infirmière
After his fiancee leaves him, Tom finds himself alone and helpless. He has to wash his clothes himself and so goes to the laundromat. There, he meets a quaint tribe and opens up to a new world and incredible horizons.
Habiba M'Sika
Directed by Selma Baccar.
Farida
Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on Clément's guilt and Juliette's lack of self-assurance; then, Clément makes his case to Juliette, abandons his fiancée, and takes her to the provinces where he sets up practice and asks her to have a baby. She panics and abruptly leaves Clément, taking up with Raoul again. When she contracts Hodgkin's disease and the treatment does no good, Raoul believes she has the malady of love. Is there a cure?
Safia
An adaptation of Les A.M.I. du Tassili by the Algerian Akli Tadjer about Algerian immigration in France.
Kim
A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to the fold or kill her, which forces her to seek help from Liberty, an anti-Consortium group.
Salima
An adolescent who fancies himself a sexy and conscientious young man abuses all his friends and family in a quest for his own independence.
Zina Khelifa
The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippocratic oath was a hypocritic failure -- the not-so-good doctor kills his wife because she is having an affair, and he kills her lover too. Then he joins the French Foreign Legion. On his way to the former French colonies in Africa, the plane he is in crashes, and Rossi, a "friend" on the plane with some overweight in carry-on money, shoots Bernard and takes off, leaving him for dead. He is nursed back to life and health by friendly villagers and just his luck, he not only manages to make his fortune in Africa, he also nabs a French passport from a dying man who will clearly not need it anymore unless the Pearly Gates have a French guard.
Dancer
A grotesque, frenetic and musical short film from Jérome Lefdup, Dominik Barbier, and Larry Flash.
Liliane
Françoise Gauthier
Anne es una joven viuda que tiene una hija pequeña y cuyo marido murió durante el rodaje de una escena peligrosa. Ella también trabaja en el mundo del cine. Jean-Louis Duroc es también un joven viudo que tiene un hijo de corta edad; es un hombre más bien triste e introvertido.
