Lyna Khoudri promotes her new Disney+ film – Arab News

DUBAI: French Algerian actress Lyna Khoudri has taken to social media to advertise her newest movie, “Une Zone À Défendre” or “A Place to Battle For.” 

The movie is out now on Disney+ and is a French romantic thriller written and directed by Romain Cogitore, starring François Civil and  Khoudri. It’s Disney+’s first unique French movie and had its world premiere in Madrid, Spain, on June 8, earlier than being launched on the streaming platform final week.    

The story revolves round Greg, an undercover police lieutenant who should acquire info on eco-activists and infiltrates a motion that’s combating to save lots of a forest from the development of a dam. He meets environmental activist named Myriam and so they fall in love. Months later, Greg returns on an official mission and finds out that Myriam has had a child. 

Khoudri was most lately noticed in Paris final week, the place she attended the Chanel Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2023-2024 present as a part of Paris Haute Couture Week. The actress has been a Chanel ambassador since 2022. 

Previous to being seen in Paris, she attended the Worldwide Biarritz Movie Pageant in France alongside Francesca Scorsese and Camila Morrone and took half within the closing ceremony. 

Khoudri rose to prominence in her position as Nedjma in Mounia Meddour’s critically acclaimed drama “Papicha.” For her work within the movie, she gained the Orizzonti Award for finest actress on the 74th Venice Movie Pageant, and he or she was nominated within the Cesar Awards’ most promising actress class. 

Khoudri additionally starred within the 2019 mini-series “Les Sauvages” and in 2016’s “Blood on the Docks.” 

Notably, she was solid in Wes Anderson’s 2021 comedy “The French Dispatch” alongside Hollywood stars Timothee Chalamet, Invoice Murray, Tilda Swinton, and Owen Wilson. 

In 2023, she was nominated within the Finest Supporting Actress class on the forty eighth Cesar Awards, France’s equal of the Oscars.  

Khoudri was nominated for her position in filmmaker Cedric Jimenez’s “Novembre,” which tells the story of the terrorist assaults in Paris on the evening of Nov. 13, 2015. She performs Samia, a charitable younger lady who volunteers at a homeless camp. Her flat mate is bankrolling her cousin, one of many terrorists.