Lubna Azabal
Birthday: 1973-08-15
Place of Birth: Bruxelles, Belgium
Biography: Lubna Azabal is a Belgian actress, born in Brussels to a Moroccan father and a Spanish mother. After studing at the Conservatoire royal of Brussels, she began a theatrical career in Belgium. In 1997, she took her first film role when Belgian film-maker Vincent Lannoo chose her to act beside Olivier Gourmet in his short film J'adore le cinéma. She performs in both French and Arabic films. She was raised trilingual (French, Spanish and Berber). She also speaks fluent English and Arabic. Her most widely known role is in the 2005 Golden Globe-winning Palestinian political thriller, Paradise Now. She can also be spotted in a smaller role in Ridley Scott's recent film Body of Lies. Azabal won the Black Pearl Award 2010 (Abu Dhabi Film Festival) for Best Actress for her role in the film Incendies. She also won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the 31st Genie Awards.
Movies
Body of Lies
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s...
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Somewhere in Love
Nicole and her son Serge live in a low-income housing estate in the Paris suburbs, where their love ...
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Almost Peaceful
Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a grou...
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Changing Times
In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive t...
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Suicide Club
A year after her daughter's suicide, Anita is still struggling and feels she is holding back her lov...
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Far Away
Serge is a long distance lorry driver between Morocco andEurope. In Tangier, he tries to reconcile w...
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Comme les 5 doigts de la main
Five brothers similar yet different, raised by a mother widowed too early. One of them had left the ...
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Incendies
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their ta...
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Exiles
One day Zano suggest a crazy idea to his companion Naïma: travel across France and Spain down to Alg...
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Headwinds
Sarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and...
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I Am Slave
Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia, daugh...
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Betelgeuse
Maybe this is the end. The red supergiant Betelgeuse is about to die and the gamma rays from the sup...
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24 Bars
It is Christmas Eve. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man, Didier...
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A Minute of Sun Less
Kamel Raoui, a young police inspector in Tanger, investigates the murder of drug-dealer Hakim Tahiri...
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Free Men
In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected fri...
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L'école des espions
Young Zana, Inès, Alex, François, and Pierre have just enrolled in the Spy School. They will meet th...
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25 Degrees in Winter
An Ukranian woman enters Belgium illegally and hides in the van of a driver abandoned by his wife. H...
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Coriolanus
Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protect...
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Here
Set against the gorgeous landscape of Armenia, Here chronicles a brief but intense relationship betw...
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Simone: Woman of the Century
Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her politic...
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Aram
Aram, an ex-soldier from the Armenian cause, has come to France to close an arms deal under secret s...
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For My Country
Aissa, a young officer of Algerian origin, tragically loses his life during a fresher initiation rit...
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The Blue Caftan
A middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship challenged by the arrival of a handsome ne...
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Strangers
Six days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which sta...
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Viva Algeria
This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundame...
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Goodbye Morocco
Tangier. Dounia decides to sell on the black market the antiques uncovered on the building site she ...
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The Love
Rotterdam, the Moroccan-Dutch Karim tells his parents that he is attracted to men. After years of ke...
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Rock the Casbah
The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems...
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You Promised Me the Sea
Rennes, nowadays. Saïd still lives with his parents. He is having a secret affair with Vincent. Unab...
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Bajo el mismo cielo
A pair of Moroccan immigrants in Spain splits apart. He returns to Morocco because he only find prec...
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The Marchers
In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest M...
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Amal
An idealistic and passionate literature teacher in a suburban Brussels school becomes the target of ...
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Rabia
Driven by the promise of a new life, Jessica and her best friend Laila left for Syria to join Daech....
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Champion
At 24 years old, Zack has all the appearances of a young man who feels good in his own skin. His sec...
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Buğday
The global corporations have established cities and agricultural zones in areas where the climate is...
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Tout le monde descend
Pierre-Antoine has a senior position at a famous consultancy firm. When his bosses are arrested for ...
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Life Suits Me Well
Mid-1990s, little town in Morocco and seemingly ordinary family. Fouad is dedicated to his work in l...
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Les siestes Grenadine
Wahid and his daughter Soufiya return to Tunisia after a long stay in West Africa.Wahid would like t...
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Ustica: The Missing Paper
On the evening of June 27, 1980, a DC9 of the private airline Itavia disappeared from radar screens ...
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My Revolution
The Arab Spring in Paris: Head over heels in love, Marwann, aged 14, hopes to win over Sygrid by cle...
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Maldoror
When two girls go missing, Paul Chartier, an impulsive young police recruit, is assigned to “Maldoro...
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Light Thereafter
Pavel, an emotionally volatile and socially alienated young man, sets off across Europe in search of...
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Joaquin Phoenix: An Actor of Extremes
The story of the rise to stardom of Joaquin Phoenix, an actor of magnetic physique, tumultuous past,...
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Lola Pater
When his mother dies, Zino decides to look for his father, Farid. But twenty-five years ago, Farid b...
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Mary Magdalene
In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for he...
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Une chaîne pour deux
Victor Granville, owner of a bicycle factory that bears his name, learns that he is seriously ill an...
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Sisters
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they liv...
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Catch the Wind
Edith, a 45-year-old textile factory worker, sees her life turned upside down by the company’s downs...
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Above the Law
Frank Valken, high-flying robber, has just made a final masterful break. At least that’s what he bel...
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A Bluebird in My Heart
An ex-con's attempts to live a quiet life are derailed when the daughter of the woman sheltering him...
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Sofia
Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself ...
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Hellhole
Three starkly different people deal with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Brussels in May 2...
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Tel Aviv on Fire
Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chan...
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Le Donne della Vucciria
In “Le Donne della Vucciria”, sixth Miu Miu Women’s Tale, Palestinian female director Hiam Abbass co...
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Adam
Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-ol...
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Pure fiction
Film based on the infamous 'Marc Dutroux' case that shook Belgium to its core....
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Lockdown
In his own natural habitat, the infamous Brussels' neighbourhood Molenbeek that appeared in the inte...
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Rebel
Kamal resolves to change his life for the better, and so leaves Belgium to help victims of the war i...
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A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same ...
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L'île des esclaves
Shipwrecked by a storm on Slave Island, the survivors are forced, according to the law of this Repub...
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Hot Water
Mother and son hit the road west, stopping at diners, motels, and hot springs along the way....
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Malika
A biopic of Malika Bellaribi, a French-Algerian woman who grew up in the Parisian projects, who surv...
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