Darina Al Joundi

Darina Al Joundi

Movies for Darina Al Joundi...

Title: The New Look
Character: Madame Delahaye
Released: February 13, 2024
Type: TV
The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.
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Our River... Our Sky
Title: Our River... Our Sky
Character: Sara
Released: July 6, 2023
Type: Movie
In a typically mixed Baghdadi neighbourhood in 2006, a community of ordinary people try to live their everyday lives amidst the threat of unpredictable violence. At the heart of these intersecting stories we find Sara, a single mother and novelist, who regains her will to write after witnessing the forced exile of her Christian neighbour and best friend Sabiha. With the news of Saddam Hussein's sudden execution shortly before the New Year, Sara and her neighbours brace themselves for an uncertain future. Yet, like a miracle, each is able to sustain a fragile sense of hope.
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Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous
Title: Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous
Character: Leila
Released: April 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Mehdia, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker in Beirut, loves Ahmed, a Syrian refugee who struggles to survive dealing in second-hand metal scraps, while affected by a mysterious physical condition related to shrapnel wounds exposure during the war. Their love story seems to have no future, but since they have nothing, they can lose nothing. When the opportunity presents itself, they leave Beirut in a hopeful and desperate get-away while Ahmed’s physical condition gets worse and worse.
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Nezouh
Title: Nezouh
Character: La femme en noir
Released: January 19, 2023
Type: Movie
Even as bombs fall on Damascus, Mutaz refuses to flee to the uncertain life of a refugee. His wife, Hala, and daughter, Zeina, must make the choice whether to stay or leave.
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Title: Backbreaking
Released: April 16, 2022
Type: TV
After being fooled by her husband into leaving Egypt, Rouh finds herself at an ISIS den in Syria, whereupon she tries to escape but ends up at a camp for female ISIS fugitives, while her return to Egypt becomes a distant dream.
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Skies of Lebanon
Title: Skies of Lebanon
Character: Rima
Released: June 30, 2021
Type: Movie
In the fifties, young Alice leaves her natal Swiss mountains for the sunny and vibrant shores of Beirut. She falls madly in love with Joseph, a quirky astrophysicist intent on sending the first Lebanese national into space. Alice quickly fits in among his relatives, but after years of bliss, the civil war threatens their Garden of Eden.
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The Man Who Sold His Skin
Title: The Man Who Sold His Skin
Character: Sam’s mother
Released: March 15, 2021
Type: Movie
To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art.
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Slam
Title: Slam
Character: Rana Nasser
Released: October 17, 2019
Type: Movie
Ricky Nasser is a young Australian whose peaceful suburban life turns to hell when his sister Ameena disappears without a trace. In a climate of distrust and xenophobia, Ricky is forced to denounce her as an extremist.
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Sisters in Arms
Title: Sisters in Arms
Character: La mère de Zara
Released: October 9, 2019
Type: Movie
Kenza and Yaël are two young French women who go to Syria to fight alongside the Kurdish forces. There they meet Zara, a Yezidi survivor. Born in different cultures but deeply united, the women-fighters heal their past wounds and discover their present strength, especially the fear they inspire in their opponents. The three young women soon bound together and become true sisters-in-arms.
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Asmahan the Diva
Title: Asmahan the Diva
Character: (voice)
Released: September 22, 2019
Type: Movie
The life of Asmahan, the diva and druze princess was short, but what a life ! Marriages, glory, espionage, lovers, alcohol, poker, suicides, murders, scandals… This oriental Marilyn has marked the golden age of the egyptian musical comedies. Today, her voice still resonates everywhere in the Middle East and her mysterious death in the waters of the Nile still feeds the wildest rumors…
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You Bury Me (Ya'aburnee)
Title: You Bury Me (Ya'aburnee)
Character: Zara Hadid (Mother)
Released: August 31, 2019
Type: Movie
A mother's perception of reality is altered forever when her son decides to leave the family home.
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Balahayba
Title: Balahayba
Released: August 8, 2019
Type: Movie
The movie revolves around Mohsen El-Saagh who decides to challenge his clan in order to win the heart of Haifa, in the midst of the struggle of the leaders to lead the clan.
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The Tower
Title: The Tower
Character: Lina (voice)
Released: November 30, 2018
Type: Movie
Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to find the future. Searching the house, Wardi finds out about her Palestinian homeland from family memories.
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The Violet Hour
Title: The Violet Hour
Character: Raha Azim
Released: October 12, 2018
Type: Movie
Set in Paris, an ancestral home holds the key to a family's future.
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Title: The Romanoffs
Character: Raha Azim
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: TV
An anthology series centered around people who believe themselves to be the modern-day descendants of the Romanov family.
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Seul le silence
Title: Seul le silence
Character: La mère de Neda
Released: September 15, 2018
Type: Movie
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The Freshmen
Title: The Freshmen
Character: Martine
Released: September 12, 2018
Type: Movie
Antoine is about to start his first year of medical school… for the third time. Benjamin, just out of high school, will make his first try. He soon realizes it's not exactly a walk in the park. In a fiercely competitive environment, with nights dedicated to hard studying rather than hard partying, the two freshmen will have to adapt and find a middle ground between despair for the present and hope for the future.
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Leila
Title: Leila
Character: Latifa
Released: September 12, 2018
Type: Movie
Hakim and Latifa fled the Algerian civil war in the early 90s. They live since in the Jura, with their two daughters: Nedjma 14 years, and Leila, the eldest, left to study hair in Paris. Three days before Christmas, Nedjma receives a terse SMS from her older sister. She will not be able to come to join them for the holidays, pretexting once more an overload of work - Latifa attacks Hakim and pushes him to fetch Leïla. Nedjma will come with him, they will take the opportunity to discover Paris. Upon their arrival in the hair salon, they learn that Leila has actually never worked. It is the journey of a father who begins in Paris one night until dawn.
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Kiss Me Not
Title: Kiss Me Not
Released: February 28, 2018
Type: Movie
Fajr is a famous temptation star, and the heroine of the first feature film of a young director. She rejects the kissing scene in the film, which provokes the director and the producer, and everyone tries to reach common ground to complete the film and get out of this dilemma.
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A Lost Man
Title: A Lost Man
Character: Najla Saleh
Released: September 19, 2007
Type: Movie
Inspired by the photographic travels of Antione d'Agata, Danielle Arbid's worldly drama follows a French photographer who travels the globe to seek out the most extreme experiences imaginable. Thomas is a fearless shutterbug who's always willing to put his life on the line for the sake of a good shot. Upon falling under the spell of an enigmatic old man named Fouad Saleh, the photographer travels to the Far East in hopes of uncovering the secrets of the man who can no longer recall his own past. As the photographer soon finds out, it's often the most innocent endeavors that yield the most profound and transformative results.
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The Gate of the Sun
Title: The Gate of the Sun
Character: Femme fantôme
Released: May 18, 2004
Type: Movie
Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession, exile, and resistance. The film follows the flight of Younes, his wife Nahila, and those around them, from their village in northern Palestine to a refugee camp in Lebanon. Some vow to continue the struggle, most simply struggle to survive. Unsparingly detailing the impact of the nakba (disaster) on Palestinian life and society and the refugees' often-contentious relationship with their reluctant Lebanese hosts, Gate of the Sun spans generations, mixing personal stories with historical events.
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Beirut Phantom
Title: Beirut Phantom
Character: Khalil's girlfriend
Released: January 2, 1998
Type: Movie
Late in the 1980s it seems like the Lebanese conflict will never end. Khalil returns to Beirut after many years. Ten years earlier, during a battle, he took advantage of the confusion and pretended he was dead.
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Ana El Awan
Title: Ana El Awan
Released: January 2, 1994
Type: Movie
Camille is a composer going back to his homeland Lebanon to write a song about his country. Raya is looking for her lost son. They meet, fall in love, and discover the despair of the people of war-torn Lebanon.
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Title: Smile, General
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The events revolve around a tyrannical ruling family that has seized the reins of power in the country, and a conflict arises between two brothers, one of whom inherited the presidency from his father, while the axis of the conflict centers around power and influence in the country without taking into account what's good for it or the citizens.