Personal Info
Birth date
1987-01-25 (38 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
Also known as
アフシア・エルジ
Hafsia Herzi
Biography
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.
Filmography
Sex Doll
5.8
Overview:
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.As An Aside
6.5
Overview:
The guest of the day is received on a set, located in an apartment without an audience, and guided simply by the sound of the host's voice.House of Pleasures
6.6
Overview:
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.Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
4.4
Overview:
It's the end of summer vacation for Amin. The young photographer spends cozy evenings with Charlotte, the ex-girlfriend of his Casanova cousin. She talks to him about literature, he photographs her. Nobody knows that they see each other, especially not Ophélie, his childhood friend, who instead confides her troubles to Amin : her father wants her to take over the family farm, her fiancé Clement will return soon from Iraq for their wedding, she is pregnant with Tony’s baby, and Tony wants to keep their affair secret instead of having a serious relationship. Ophélie constantly contemplates her choices : would it be better to get an abortion in secret and marry Clement or to follow her maternal instinct and keep the child, perhaps seeking refuge with Amin in Paris?Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
6.7
Overview:
Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, to a fishing village in the 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. Enchanted by the many female characters who surround him, Amin remains in awe of these summer sirens while his dionysiac cousin throws himself into their carnal delights with euphoria. Armed with his camera and guided by the bright simmer light of the Mediterranean coast, Amin pursues his philosophical quest while gathering inspiration for his screenplays. When it comes to love, only Mektoub (‘destiny' in Arabic) can decide.Black Tide
5.766
Overview:
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.Borgo
6.794
Overview:
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.Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due
10
Overview:
Amin returns to Sète after his studies in Paris, still dreaming of cinema. By chance, an American producer on vacation becomes interested in his project, The Essential Elements of Universal Existence, and wants his wife Jess to be the heroine. But capricious fate imposes its own rules.The Embers
7.5
Overview:
Lidia Achour returns to Peranne following the disappearance of her former partner, Jean Benefro. In addition to Jean's disappearance, a series of gruesome murders pushes Lidia to investigate relentlessly, at the risk of awakening a painful past that everyone thought buried.The Marchers
6.4
Overview:
In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for equality and against racism, over 1,000 km between Marseille and Paris . Despite the difficulties and resistance encountered, their movement will bring about a real boost of hope in the way of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. They unite with their arrival more than 100 000 people from all walks of life and give France its new face.Madame Claude
5.7
Overview:
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.The Birthday Party
NYR
Overview:
Set in a hamlet in rural France, the story follows a man and his wife, their daughter and an artist neighbor. As the man plans a surprise for his wife’s birthday, inexplicable happenings begin to disrupt the hamlet’s quiet existence before turning into a nightmarish chain of events when night falls.The French Trilogy
NYR
Overview:
The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous project, The American Tetralogy. Questioning the relationship between cinema, landscapes and representations, this project features a song by Edward Barrow and was visible in public space in France during the summer of 2013, through a distribution system borrowing from advertising strategies.On My Way
6.5
Overview:
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.The Bag of Flour
4.7
Overview:
Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in a Catholic orphanage in 1970s Belgium, through her rebellious, poverty-stricken teens in a village in the Atlas mountains of Morocco.The Secret of the Grain
7
Overview:
In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.The Playground
6
Overview:
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 Rabbi's Cat
6.975
Overview:
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.Visiting Hours
5.8
Overview:
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...Sisters
4.9
Overview:
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.The Source
6.6
Overview:
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.Exit Marrakech
6
Overview:
When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and son will lose each other for good, or find one another again.War Story
4.159
Overview:
Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she wanders the streets, snapping pictures of refugees as if her camera were both weapon and olive branch. Struggling to confront her demons, Lee resolves to help a beautiful young woman in need.The Rapture
6.81
Overview:
Lydia, a midwife very invested in her work, is in the middle of a breakup. At the same time, her best friend, Salomé, announces to her that she is pregnant and asks her to follow her pregnancy. The day Lydia meets Milos, a one-night stand, while she is holding her friend's baby in her arms, she sinks into a lie, at the risk of losing everything.The Little Sister
NYR
Overview:
Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family. Starting university in Paris, she dates, makes friends, and explores a whole new world, all while confronting a timeless and heartrending dilemma: How can one stay true to oneself when reconciling different parts of one’s identity feels impossible?Acting
TBACeritfiée Halal de Mahmoud Zemmouri as Unknown
TBAThe Birthday Party as Nora
TBATiens ferme ta couronne as Unknown
TBALa Loi du courage as Unknown
2025Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due as Camélia
2025Paysage après la bataille as Fanny
2025The Embers (8 Episodes) as Unknown
2024Visiting Hours as Mina Hirti
2024My New Friends as Julia
2024Borgo as Melissa
2023The Rapture as Lydia
2023Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2023The Gravity as Sabrina
2022Three Nights a Week as Samia
2022Singing Jailbirds as Jess
2022Au-delà des murs as Lina
2021Sisters as Farah / Leila 22 ans
2021Madame Claude as Nadège
2021C ce soir, le débat (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2020Pygmalionnes as Self - Actrice, réalisatrice
2019You Deserve a Lover as Lila
2019Persona non grata as Iris
2019Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo as Camélia
2018This Teacher as Hafsia
2018Black Tide as Chérifa
2018Féminin plurielles as Hafsia, student
2018Of Skin and Men as Amel
2017Un vrai job as Safiye
2017Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno as Camélia
2017Des Plans Sur La Comète as Franck
2016Sex Doll as Virginie
2016The Blind and the Cardinal as Julie
2015Par accident as Amra
2015Certifiée Halal as Kenza Boukamache
2014War Story as Hafsia
2013The Marchers as Monia
2013Exit Marrakech as Karima
2013The French Trilogy as Self
2013My Sense of Modesty as Hafsia Chouchane
2013On My Way as Jeanne
2012Inheritance as Hajar
2012Pour Djamila as Djamila Boupacha
2012The Bag of Flour as Sarah
2011Vestiaires (1 Episode) as The social worker
2011Ma compagne de nuit as Marine, la femme de ménage
2011The Source as Loubna / Esmeralda
2011House of Pleasures as Samira
2011Le Rodba as Aya
2011The Rabbi's Cat as Zlabya, rabbi's daughter (voice)
2011Jimmy Rivière as Sonia
2010Joseph et la fille as Julie
2010Paris monopole as Sabrinette
2009Buried Secrets as Aicha
2009The King of Escape as Curly Durandot
2009Dawn of the World as zahra
2009A Man and His Dog as Leïla
2008Sueur as Unknown
2008Française as Sofia - adult
2007The Secret of the Grain as Rym
2007Ravages as Merhane
2001As An Aside (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
1985Victoires de la musique (1 Episode) as Self
Directing
TBADans le jardin de l'ogre ... Director
2025The Little Sister ... Director
2022The Playground ... Director
2021Good Mother ... Director
2019You Deserve a Lover ... Director
2011Le Rodba ... Director
Writing
2025The Little Sister ... Screenplay
2022The Playground ... Dialogue
2021Good Mother ... Writer
2019You Deserve a Lover ... Screenplay
2011Le Rodba ... Scenario Writer
Production
2019You Deserve a Lover ... Producer