Houda Echouafni

Houda Echouafni

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National Theatre Live: Grenfell: in the words of survivors
Title: National Theatre Live: Grenfell: in the words of survivors
Character: Rabia Yahya
Released: July 20, 2023
Type: Movie
A powerful new verbatim play from the testimony of residents at the heart of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Six years on, interviews conducted with a group of survivors and bereaved reveal the impact of the multiple failures that led to a national disaster, asking: how do we stop this ever happening again?
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National Theatre Live: The Boy With Two Hearts
Title: National Theatre Live: The Boy With Two Hearts
Character: Fariba
Released: October 2, 2021
Type: Movie
When a young mother speaks out against the Taliban, she and her husband are forced to flee their home and country with their three sons. Embarking on a long and terrifying journey across Russia and through Europe, they seek final refuge in the UK. But, as their eldest son’s life-threatening heart condition worsens and requires urgent surgery, their escape soon becomes a race against time. Amit Sharma directs this widely acclaimed stage version of The Boy with Two Hearts (BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week). Based on extraordinary real-life experiences, it is a powerful story of hope, courage, and humanity – and a heartfelt tribute to the NHS.
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Leviathan Cycle, Episode 5: Ismael
Title: Leviathan Cycle, Episode 5: Ismael
Character: Yasmine
Released: May 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Our protagonists are taken captive aboard a gigantic cargo ship, whose megalomaniacal captain Ismael entertains biblical pretensions. Ben is made to ‘pay his passage’, while a ghostly Yasmine stalks the empty corridors of the ship. Whales and whaling become a key subject – interrogating colonial and indigenous politics in the process.
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Leviathan Cycle, Episode 4: Jamila
Title: Leviathan Cycle, Episode 4: Jamila
Character: Yasmine
Released: May 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Ben and Yasmine continue further south to the Moroccan coast, where they are attacked by Jamila and her group of parasitic bandits. The ethics of survival and predator-prey relationships in both human and marine species are explored, as members of another group intervene. But is this out of the frying pan and into the fire for the protagonists?
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Leviathan Cycle, Episode 3: Arturo
Title: Leviathan Cycle, Episode 3: Arturo
Character: Yasmine
Released: May 26, 2020
Type: Movie
Ben and Yasmine arrive at a strange and enigmatic community based on an island in the lagoon of Venice. They engage in scavenging raids to the mainland and partake in the group’s Bacchanalian orgies. Their gluttonous sexual vagrancy is paralleled with images of overfishing and unnecessary cruelty in the fishing industry of the Mediterranean.
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Title: Jesus: His Life
Character: Virgem Maria
Released: March 25, 2019
Type: TV
Explore the story of Jesus Christ through a unique lens: the people in his life who were closest to him. Each of the eight chapters is told from the perspective of different biblical figures, all of whom played a pivotal role in Jesus’ life including Joseph, John the Baptist, Mary Mother of Jesus, Caiaphas, Judas Iscariot, Pontius Pilate, Mary Magdalene and Peter.
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Piercing Brightness
Title: Piercing Brightness
Character: Mask
Released: June 1, 2013
Type: Movie
A young Chinese boy and girl are sent on a mission to retrieve the 'Glorious 100' - agents who were sent to this planet millennia ago to study and observe.
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Mesocafé
Title: Mesocafé
Character: Suad
Released: October 2, 2011
Type: Movie
A few weeks before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, an underground blogger risks his life by travelling from Baghdad to London to campaign for the lifting of UN Sanctions on Iraq. As political intrigue thwarts his heartfelt attempts to highlight the suffering of his people under the sanctions, he takes refuge at Mesocafé, a little Baghdad in West London. With their Arab, Assyrian, Jewish and Kurdish heritage, members of the Iraqi community allow him into their lives, sharing with him their stories and dreams. It is here that he meets the beautiful Bisan.
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For Neda
Title: For Neda
Character: Arabic narrator
Released: June 14, 2010
Type: Movie
On June 20, 2009, Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran during the turmoil that followed the Iranian presidential contest. Within hours, images of her dying moments, captured on cell phones, appeared on computer screens across the world, focusing the world's attention on mass protests against the rigged elections in Iran. Featuring previously unseen footage of Neda with friend and family, as well as exclusive video of her recorded the day she died, "For Neda" debuts just before the anniversary of her death.
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31 North 62 East
Title: 31 North 62 East
Character: Jasmine Ben Said
Released: September 18, 2009
Type: Movie
A psychological thriller about how an elite SAS unit's position is revealed by the British Prime Minister to ensure an arms deal goes ahead and to secure his re-election.
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The Death of Klinghoffer
Title: The Death of Klinghoffer
Character: Fatima
Released: January 24, 2003
Type: Movie
An adaptation from the controversial John Adams opera about the true life incident that took place in the mid 80s. The liner "Achille Lauro" is on a 12-day cruise in the Mediterranean. While the ship is docked in Alexandria, a maid discovers that four of the passengers are actually members of the Palestine Liberation Organization traveling incognito. Startled by their discovery, the PLO cadre is forced to act. They take the passengers on board hostage and demand the release of 50 Palestinian activists held in Israeli jails. As Egyptian, American, Italian, and Palestinian authorities bicker over the best way to handle the situation (and who would negotiate with the terrorists), the kidnappers find themselves dealing with rebellion among their captives, and an argument between the four PLO members and Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish-American confined to a wheelchair, eventually escalates into violence.
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: Leila Jaffiri
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.