Darina Al Joundi
Birthday: 1968-02-25
Place of Birth: Beirut, Lebanon
Biography: Darina Al Joundi is a Lebanese-born stage actor. She became a French citizen after Prime Minister Manuel Valls read a review of her performance at the 2012 Avignon Festival and decided to speed up her application. She has promoted women's rights for the French government.
Movies
Nezouh
Even as bombs fall on Damascus, Mutaz refuses to flee to the uncertain life of a refugee. His wife, ...
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Skies of Lebanon
In the fifties, young Alice leaves her natal Swiss mountains for the sunny and vibrant shores of Bei...
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Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous
Mehdia, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker in Beirut, loves Ahmed, a Syrian refugee who struggles ...
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Ana El Awan
Camille is a composer going back to his homeland Lebanon to write a song about his country. Raya is ...
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You Bury Me (Ya'aburnee)
A mother's perception of reality is altered forever when her son decides to leave the family home....
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Sisters in Arms
Kenza and Yaël are two young French women who go to Syria to fight alongside the Kurdish forces. The...
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Kiss Me Not
Fajr is a famous temptation star, and the heroine of the first feature film of a young director. She...
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A Lost Man
Inspired by the photographic travels of Antione d'Agata, Danielle Arbid's worldly drama follows a Fr...
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The Gate of the Sun
Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years o...
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Beirut Phantom
Late in the 1980s it seems like the Lebanese conflict will never end. Khalil returns to Beirut after...
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Slam
Ricky is a young Arab Australian whose peaceful suburban life is turned on its head when his sister,...
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The Freshmen
Antoine is about to start his first year of medical school… for the third time. Benjamin, just out o...
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Leila
Hakim and Latifa fled the Algerian civil war in the early 90s. They live since in the Jura, with the...
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The Tower
Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to fin...
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Balahayba
The movie revolves around Mohsen El-Saagh who decides to challenge his clan in order to win the hear...
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Asmahan the Diva
The life of Asmahan, the diva and druze princess was short, but what a life ! Marriages, glory, espi...
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The Man Who Sold His Skin
To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to ...
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Our River... Our Sky
In a typically mixed Baghdadi neighbourhood in 2006, a community of ordinary people try to live thei...
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Far from It
After fleeing his privileged but stifling life, young Gabriel finds himself in a remote village, des...
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Oceania
Najib, 16, spends his summer on a video game, until his mother, Asma, discovers the death of their e...
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Casa Susanna
Paolo discovers his grand father has a superpower : that night Tito will become Susanna....
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Cinema of War in Lebanon
In 1975, the Lebanese wars started when Maroun Bagdadi ended his first feature film "Beirutya Beirut...
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Hizz Ya Wizz
Ali comes from a modest family in southern Lebanon. He lives and works in Beirut as an assistant to ...
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Original Sin
After decades of lies, resentments and stolen identities, a Muslim mother confronts her drag queen s...
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Parisienne
18-year-old Lina arrives in Paris for her studies. She comes to look for what she has never found in...
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