Acting

Yassine Fadel

Acting credits

Erased poster
6.1

A former agent of the CIA and his estranged daughter go on the run after his employers target them for assassination.

Erased

2012

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken poster
6.0

The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid.

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken

2015

The Well poster
5.7

A young restorer travels to a small village to restore a medieval painting to its former glory. She will put her life in danger due to a curse attached to the painting.

The Well

2024

Little Tickles poster
7.4

Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.

Little Tickles

2018

The Invader poster
5.5

An African immigrant living illegally in Belgium is desperate to find his own sense of belonging.

The Invader

2011

All My Friends Are Dead poster
5.9

A group of friends at a New Year’s Eve party go through a whirlwind of events that exposes secrets, breaks hearts — and leads to a shocking outcome.

All My Friends Are Dead

2020

Polina poster
6.6

Polina is a young dancer from a modest family. After years of ballet academy, she is accepted by the Bolshoi; still, she decides to try and audition of a modern dance company in France. She makes it, but her journey will not end there...

Polina

2016

Firas poster
NR

Firas sails together with his Syrian countrymen towards Europe. While crossing the Mediterranean Sea a plane crashes near their boat. Among all the debris, one little girl miraculously survives. The refugees manage to bring her aboard the ship; in shock and confused. Firas is confounded by the presence of the girl. Soon his state of mind starts to work against him.

Firas

2020

Rising Voices poster
NR

A handful of migrants without papers decide to start a hunger strike. Day by day, overcoming the violence that they inflict upon themselves, they discover the greatness of their true cause. From this realisation they learn to affirm their common humanity.

Rising Voices

2015

Isola poster
4.9

On an island lost between two worlds, Dai, a young Chinese woman, survives alone in a cave, waiting for the baby that swells her womb day after day. Around the harbour which, every day, flurry with the arrival of hundreds of migrants, she searches tirelessly the face of the man she loves, her husband. One, night her wish is to be fulfilled

Isola

2017

No artwork available
NR

18-year-old Hafsa is at an age when anything is possible. When life and life's choices are open to you. Her grandfather, her mentor, an outstanding musician, is living out his last days, stunned by death. Lhaj Allal wants more than anything to use his last moments to make Hafsa his worthy musical heir.

Le silence des violons

2024

Ustica: The Missing Paper poster
5.5

On the evening of June 27, 1980, a DC9 of the private airline Itavia disappeared from radar screens without sending any emergency signal. The aircraft, stabilized in cruise at 7.600 meters above sea level, sank into the Tyrrhenian Trench, between Ponza and Ustica. 81 people lost their lives, including 14 children. There are three hypotheses about the disaster, but none has ever been proven, until the analysis of the findings and documentary material reveals a fourth, chilling possible cause of the disaster.

Ustica: The Missing Paper

2016

State of Emergency Motherfucker poster
5.5

A little hardcore racial profiling doesn't beat good gossip.

State of Emergency Motherfucker

2016

The virgin and child poster
NR

Young Yazidi Kurd immigrant Avesta is seven months pregnant. Freshly escaped from the hellish underworld of ISIS, she has just one thought in mind: getting revenge on the man who forced her into slavery. When she arrives in Brussels, she locates and attacks members of his family in order to force him out of his ISIS-linked hiding and bring him before the courts. At the same time, Avesta finds sanctuary at a refugee centre in Brussels. Despite her post-traumatic mutism, she meets Yassemine, an interpreter of Kurdish origin who offers her support and tries to get her to talk. Yassemine helps Avesta take her first steps in Belgium and brings her to see Babette, a nurse in the city centre. The exam shows that her unborn baby is doing well, but horrible scars are revealed on Avesta's body.

The virgin and child

2024

Diego Star poster
5.3

A cargo ship is stuck on the Canadian Saint Lawrence River for repairs. Traoré, an Ivory Coast mechanic is unjustly accused of causing the damage.

Diego Star

2013