Hafsia Herzi

Acting

Hafsia Herzi

Born 1987-01-25 · Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France

Hafsia Herzi (born January 25, 1987) is a French actress of Algerian and Tunisian descent. She is best known for her debut role in the award-winning Franco-Tunisian feature The Secret of the Grain for which she won the award for most promising actress at the César Awards 2008, and the Marcello Mastroianni award, for best emerging actor or actress at the 64th Venice International Film Festival.

Acting credits

Jimmy Rivière poster
4.0

Jimmy Rivière is a young Gypsy, has a sunny but nervous disposition. Sometimes too nervous. Under pressure from his community, he converts to Pentacostalism and renounces his two passions: Thai boxing and Sonia. But how can he refuse the new fight that his trainer proposes? And how can he resist the powerful desire that draws him to Sonia?

Jimmy Rivière

2011

Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno poster
6.7

Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, in Sète, South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday.

Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno

2018

House of Pleasures poster
6.5

The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.

House of Pleasures

2011

Sex Doll poster
5.7

Set in London's world of high class call girls, Amoureux Solitaires tells the story of London based French escort Virginie, and Rupert, a man who rescues trafficked girls.

Sex Doll

2016

Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due poster
6.2

Amin returns to Sète after studying in Paris, still dreaming of cinema. By chance, an American producer on vacation takes an interest in his project and wants his wife, Jess, to play the lead role. But fate, whimsical as ever, has its own rules.

Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due

2025

Borgo poster
6.8

Melissa is an experienced, exemplary prison guard. But a dangerous spiral is set into motion when she transfers to a Corsican jail, where she accepts help and protection from inmate Saveriu to get her bearings. Upon his release, he contacts Melissa expecting to collect.

Borgo

2024

Persona non grata poster
4.6

José Nunes and Maxime Charasse are friends and minority partners in a struggling construction company. Faced with the need to protect their interests, they make a radical decision and find themselves bound by a dark secret.

Persona non grata

2019

My New Friends poster
5.6

Police officer Lucie’s solitary daily life is disturbed by the arrival of a young couple and their little girl who move in next door. As she grows fond of them, she discovers that the father is an anti-police activist.

My New Friends

2024

Black Tide poster
5.8

When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking.

Black Tide

2018

Madame Claude poster
5.7

Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the French political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.

Madame Claude

2021

Par accident poster
5.4

One evening, Amra, a young Algerian living in France, accidentally runs over a pedestrian. Riddled with guilt and the certainty that she will lose her French identity papers, Amra is miraculously proved innocent by Angélique, a beautiful redhead who is as open and without any hang-ups as Amra is unsociable and introverted. The two young women become friends, but then Angélique's attitude becomes increasingly strange, indeed, even troubling...

Par accident

2015

The Rapture poster
6.7

Lydia, a midwife very invested in her work, is in the middle of a breakup.

The Rapture

2023

Buried Secrets poster
5.7

A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors.

Buried Secrets

2009

The Secret of the Grain poster
7.0

In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.

The Secret of the Grain

2007

Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo poster
4.4

Summer is coming to an end, Amin and his friends meet Marie, a young parisian student.

Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo

2019

Sisters poster
4.9

For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatising events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria to seize their last opportunity to have him reveal where their brother is. When the past catches up, the three sisters have no choice but to put their differences aside.

Sisters

2021

Visiting Hours poster
5.8

Alma, alone in her big townhouse, and Mina, a single mother from a housing project in another city, have organized their lives around the prison visits they make to their respective partners. When the two women meet in the room outside the visiting area, an unlikely friendship begins...

Visiting Hours

2024

The Source poster
6.5

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.

The Source

2011

A Man and His Dog poster
5.8

An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.

A Man and His Dog

2009

This Teacher poster
5.2

A reunion between two childhood friends goes awry in this disquieting portrait of a young Muslim woman visiting New York for the first time.

This Teacher

2018

Ravages poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ravages

2007

Française poster
6.1

A determined young woman goes up against the Moroccan traditions where the only way for a girl is marriage and children.

Française

2008

Féminin plurielles poster
5.0

Sweet works in a hospital as a nurse. A new patient has just been admitted. Her mysterious side and her literary tastes fascinate the young woman. Delphine, executive in the same establishment, welcomes a German photographer who came for a report. The attraction is immediate between the two women. Hafsia, who wears the veil and could be refused an exam, meets an exuberant young man whom she falls in love with. She must hide this relationship from her father ...

Féminin plurielles

2018

On My Way poster
6.4

Deneuve plays sassy grandmother Bettie who takes to the road after being betrayed by her lover and learning her business is on the verge of bankruptcy on the same day. During a weeklong odyssey across France, she spends time with a grandson she hardly knows and reconnects with her past as former Miss Brittany through a reunion for former beauty queens.

On My Way

2013

Behind the camera

The Little Sister poster
6.6

When Fatima leaves her close-knit suburban family to study philosophy in Paris, she finds herself caught between her religious upbringing and the freedom of student life in the city.

The Little Sister

2025

The Little Sister poster
6.6

When Fatima leaves her close-knit suburban family to study philosophy in Paris, she finds herself caught between her religious upbringing and the freedom of student life in the city.

The Little Sister

2025

Good Mother poster
6.3

Nora, a cleaning lady in her fifties, looks after her small family in a housing estate in the northern part of Marseille. She is worried about her grandson Ellyes, who has been in prison for several months for robbery and is awaiting his trial with a mixture of hope and anxiety. Nora does everything she can to make this wait as painless as possible.

Good Mother

2021

Good Mother poster
6.3

Nora, a cleaning lady in her fifties, looks after her small family in a housing estate in the northern part of Marseille. She is worried about her grandson Ellyes, who has been in prison for several months for robbery and is awaiting his trial with a mixture of hope and anxiety. Nora does everything she can to make this wait as painless as possible.

Good Mother

2021

No artwork available
NR

Adèle seems happy with Richard, the doctor she married. Yet she can't help collecting conquests.

Adèle

You Deserve a Lover poster
5.7

Lila has just broken up with her cheating boyfriend and is disappointed, frustrated and hurt. Looking for love and intimacy, she engages in a series of short-term relationships, while her friends offer up bad advice and her ex tries to win her back.

You Deserve a Lover

2019

You Deserve a Lover poster
5.7

Lila has just broken up with her cheating boyfriend and is disappointed, frustrated and hurt. Looking for love and intimacy, she engages in a series of short-term relationships, while her friends offer up bad advice and her ex tries to win her back.

You Deserve a Lover

2019

You Deserve a Lover poster
5.7

Lila has just broken up with her cheating boyfriend and is disappointed, frustrated and hurt. Looking for love and intimacy, she engages in a series of short-term relationships, while her friends offer up bad advice and her ex tries to win her back.

You Deserve a Lover

2019

The Playground poster
6.0

After years of traveling, Anyas parents have decided to return from Australia to their native France, and she has to attend a public school for the first time in her life. But normal everyday school life quickly causes problems for the girl. On the first day, she gets a shot with a soccer ball on the head. When no one wants to apologize for this, a violent argument immediately ensues. So she messed it up with the locals right from the start. Anya becomes an outsider, which doesn't even really bother her. But Zoé, Nils and Jade, who are also a bit different, take care of her. A new clique is formed. But the pretty outsider would prefer to be friends with Nathan, the school director's son. But he gives her the cold shoulder because it wouldn't be cool to be interested in girls in front of his buddies. Meanwhile, the girls hatch a plan to win their place in the schoolyard. A real fight ensues between the students. Now it's girls against boys. But how far can a dispute between children go?

The Playground

2022

No artwork available
NR

Matteo, a young man of Italian origin, accompanied by his parents, came to ask Nina's family, of North African origin, for her hand in marriage. This is an important ritual in their eyes, called the Rodba. But that's without counting on the presence of the tumultuous Aya, Nina's sister, who is determined to film this moment to fulfill her dream of becoming a director.

Le Rodba

2011