Rachida Brakni
1977 (48 лет)Brakni became a member of the Comédie Française in 2001, where she won a Molière Award for her role in Ruy Blas. In 2002, she received the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in Chaos.
In 2010, she directed Cantona in Face au paradis (In Front of Paradise), a contemporary play by young French playwright Nathalie Saugeon. The production premiered at Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées on January 26, 2010.
In 2012, Brakni and Cantona were featured together in an advertising campaign for the fashion brand The Kooples.
Chaos
Coline Serreau
Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot
A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.
Chaos
Lisa et le pilote d'avion
Philippe Barassat
Rachida Brakni, Éric Cantona
Lisa and Corinne are personal assistants to people with disabilities. Lisa is happily married and have two kids. Corinne is in and out of love affairs. One day Lisa meet an airline pilot who charms her and she can't say no to.
Lisa et le pilote d'avion
Loin
André Téchiné
Stéphane Rideau, Lubna Azabal
Serge is a long distance lorry driver between Morocco andEurope. In Tangier, he tries to reconcile with his former girlfriend, Sarah. She has refused to have anything to do with him since her mother’s death and intends to join her brother in Canada. Serge appeals to Sarah’s protector, a young Arab named Saïd, to allow him to meet up with Sarah, promising in return to smuggle Saïd into Europe...
Far Away
Illégitime
Renaud Bertrand
Thierry Neuvic, Guy Marchand
In the suburb of Lille, Stéphane holds a tobacco shop with his father, Maurice, a retired military officer. Although feeling trapped in his marriage, Stéphane doesn't want to leave his wife, Elise, a lawyer, and is currently having an affair with Leila, a physiotherapist and mother of two. Together they hope for a better life, but everything changes when Sofiane, Leila's 15 year old son, holds up the store at gunpoint, without any knowledge of his mother's affair with Stéphane. Maurice-violently hit-pulls out a gun and shoots him.
Torn
One Day in Europe
Hannes Stöhr
Megan Gay, Luidmila Tsvetkova
One day in Europe shows stories set in four European countries. All of them involve thievery in some way or the other. The protagonists are strangers in the respective country. For none of them their stay turns out as planned.
One Day in Europe
L'enfant endormi
Yasmine Kassari
Mounia Osfour, Rachida Brakni
In the northeast of contemporary Morocco, Zeinab, a young wife watches her husband leave the country to go underground the day after their wedding. Zeinab is expecting a child. While she is waiting for her husband to return she lulls the foetus to sleep. Time goes by and the husband does not come back.
L'enfant endormi
Secrets of State
Philippe Haïm
Gérard Lanvin, Vahina Giocante
In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same methods. Alex and Al Barad are two of them. The former is the head of the D.G.S.E.'s (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6) counter-terrorism unit while the latter reigns over a terrorist network, and both fight using the most ruthless of weapons: human beings.
Secrets of State
Une Affaire d'état
Eric Valette
André Dussollier, Thierry Frémont
A plane explodes above the Gulf of Guinea. An escort girl is murdered in a Parisian park. Thousands of miles separate these two events, and yet Nora Chahyd, believes there's a connection between them, much to his superiors chagrin. As Nora investigates, getting dangerously close to the powers that be, the murders and betrayals accumulate, and signs point to a state affair at the heart of it all.
State Affairs
De SAS en SAS
Rachida Brakni
Samira Brahmia, Zita Hanrot
Every month, women go to a prison on the outskirts of Paris to visit their loved ones: sons, fathers, brothers, partners. They wait in the summer heat. As they move through security checks, relationships are made and broken, tongues loosen, tension mounts… until finally a riot erupts behind bars.
Visiting Ours
L'outremangeur
Thierry Binisti
Éric Cantona, Rachida Brakni
Séléna is chief of the Marseille police. Respected and feared by his men, his sole enemy seems to be himself, along with his 300 pounds. Strangled by the bursting straight-jacket of his body, tortured by his past, he leads a solitary life in a large isolated house. Séléna is the only person who knows that Elsa was guilty of the murder of her uncle, a wealthy shipowner. Fascinated by the young woman’s beauty, he offers her a strange deal: in exchange for his silence, he demands that she dines with him every night for a year.
The Overeater
