Manal Issa

Manal Issa

Born: March 9, 1992
in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Manal Issa is a french-libanese actress, writer, storyteller and robotics engineer.

Movies for Manal Issa...

Datæterna
Title: Datæterna
Released: November 1, 2023
Type: Movie
In the near future, a micro-worker performs tasks that are suggested to her. Between data center maintenance and data processing, she hesitantly searches for ways to feel emotions. Devoid of social links, this world is saturated with data.
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Madness
Title: Madness
Character: Nausica
Released: September 20, 2023
Type: Movie
Following an accident on a set, a director tries to pick up the pieces of reality.
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Black Box: Wem kannst du vertrauen?
Title: Black Box: Wem kannst du vertrauen?
Character: Madonna
Released: August 10, 2023
Type: Movie
The exits of a Berlin courtyard are blocked by the police due to an ambiguous event outside and a state of emergency occurs. Among the residents of the building, insecurities start to pump fear. Suspicion takes over panic, prejudices bring polarization and another question appears: Is the real danger coming from inside or outside?
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Elektra
Title: Elektra
Released: March 21, 2023
Type: Movie
Set in the desolate wreckage of Beirut’s Piccadilly Theater after decades of war, the film recounts three days in the life of a writer and actors. As they seek to revive the ghostly theater with a production of Sophocles’ Elektra, the actors witness the vivid dreams of the writer who has to confront the contempt and lies of the two-faced actors and ultimately her own murder.
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The Anger
Title: The Anger
Released: February 2, 2023
Type: Movie
In post-war Lebanon, Ida, a young Lebanese girl, flees her small village and her alcoholic mother and goes to the big city. There, she starts dating a European man not knowing what is in store for her.
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The Swimmers
Title: The Swimmers
Character: Sarah Mardini
Released: November 24, 2022
Type: Movie
From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use.
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Maria Schneider, 1983
Title: Maria Schneider, 1983
Character: Maria Schneider
Released: May 26, 2022
Type: Movie
In 1983, French actress Maria Schneider gives an interview for the TV show Cinéma Cinémas. The conversation takes an unexpected turn when she challenges film industry practices and is asked to talk about the controversial film Last Tango in Paris (1972).
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The Sea Ahead
Title: The Sea Ahead
Character: Jana
Released: April 13, 2022
Type: Movie
A young woman makes her way back home to her parents’ house in the middle of the night leaving a bad experience behind. Haunting pressures to fit back into the family dynamics as well as revealing details of her life abroad weigh heavy on her. Feeling cornered, her anxieties resurface, leading her to find solace in another part of her Beirut life that she had forsaken. A life that is for her as familiar and foreign now as it ever was.
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Memory Box
Title: Memory Box
Character: Maia (Young)
Released: December 3, 2021
Type: Movie
Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: notebooks, tapes, and photos Maia, from 13 to 18 years old, sent from Beirut to her best friend who left for Paris to escape the civil war. Maia refuses to open the box or confront its memories, but Alex secretly begins diving into it. Between fantasy and reality, Alex enters the world of her mother’s tumultuous, passionate adolescence during the Lebanese civil war, unlocking mysteries of a hidden past.
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Où en êtes-vous? (Numéro 2)
Title: Où en êtes-vous? (Numéro 2)
Character: Sabrina (uncredited)
Released: July 21, 2020
Type: Movie
Video #2 of Finite Rants, a series of eight visual essays commissioned by Fondazione Prada and curated by Luigi Alberto Cippini and Niccolò Gravina. Bertrand Bonello reworks the last minutes of his 2016 film Nocturama, which documents the logistical operations and the organization of terrorist attacks in Paris by a group of teenagers. Starting with "Où en êtes-vous?", a video commissioned by the Centre Pompidou in 2014 and conceived as a letter to his then 11-year-old daughter, the director makes a new work altering the final sequence of Nocturama and completely modifying the textual component and the soundtrack in this video essay as a second letter written for his now 17-year-old daughter.
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Father & Sons
Title: Father & Sons
Character: Laura
Released: February 13, 2019
Type: Movie
Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is losing control of his life. Joachim is supposed to be studying psychiatry but spends most of his time daydreaming about his ex-girlfriend, Ivan cannot fit in at school despite being very smart, and Joseph has secretly quit his job as a doctor and is trying to become a writer. While there is plenty of affection at home, all three are also, clumsily, searching for love...
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Malek
Title: Malek
Character: Souad
Released: January 18, 2019
Type: Movie
A Lebanese immigrant living in Montreal is haunted by his sister's death.
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Golden Youth
Title: Golden Youth
Character: Razerka
Released: January 16, 2019
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enjoy their crazy love under the neon lights of the decadent nightclub Le Palace, where they establish an ambiguous relationship with Lucille and Hubert, two bohemian bourgeois who will change their lives.
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Ulysse & Mona
Title: Ulysse & Mona
Character: Mona
Released: September 6, 2018
Type: Movie
Ulysses, a secluded artist who mysteriously retired a few years ago, meets Mona, a young art student full of life. The encounter will change them both.
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My Favourite Fabric
Title: My Favourite Fabric
Character: Nahla
Released: July 18, 2018
Type: Movie
Damascus, Spring 2011. It's the early stages of the civil war. 25-year-old Nahla is torn between her desire for freedom and the hope of leaving the country thanks to her arranged marriage with Samir, a Syrian expatriate in the USA. When he chooses her younger, more docile sister Myriam, Nahla finds refuge at her neighbor's, the mysterious Ms Jiji.
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One of These Days
Title: One of These Days
Released: October 26, 2017
Type: Movie
Beirut, on an autumn day. The city is on the edge of chaos, but for Maya, Tarek, Yasmina and Rami, aged between 17 and 22 years old, it is just an ordinary day during which they question themselves about sex, love and night time hanging out.
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The Revelations 2017
Title: The Revelations 2017
Released: January 3, 2017
Type: Movie
For this 11th edition, the brilliant Valérie Donzelli demonstrates all her attachment to youth by associating her talent with the 34 Revelations 2017. A true surge of poetry and romanticism, Valérie Donzelli's cinema touches, disconcerts and makes us feel furiously free.
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Nocturama
Title: Nocturama
Character: Sabrina
Released: August 31, 2016
Type: Movie
After a group of Parisian youths pull off a deadly terrorist attack, they decide to shelter for a night in a shopping center.
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Parisienne
Title: Parisienne
Character: Lina
Released: February 10, 2016
Type: Movie
18-year-old Lina arrives in Paris for her studies. She comes to look for what she has never found in Lebanon, her country of origin: a certain form of freedom. The survival instinct as the only baggage, she sails from one Paris to another to the rhythm of her romantic encounters.
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Le Quatrième mur
Title: Le Quatrième mur
Character: Imane
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie