Dalida

Dalida (2017) is a biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Lisa Azuelos and starring Sveva Alviti in the title role. Born Yolanda Gigliotti in 1930s Cairo to Italian immigrants, she won the Miss Egypt crown, moved to Paris, and remade herself as Dalida — a voice that sold over 130 million records across French, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew, German and Spanish.

The film traces three decades of stratospheric fame alongside a private life that kept shattering. Three of the men she loved died by their own hand. Each relationship, each loss, is treated not as tabloid scandal but as the architecture of a slow collapse. Riccardo Scamarcio and Nicolas Duvauchelle appear among the men who passed through her life; Jean-Paul Rouve plays her devoted brother Orlando, on whose memoirs the script draws.

Azuelos resists hagiography. What emerges is a portrait of someone who could command stadiums and still feel completely alone — a tension the production design captures in lavish period detail, from 1950s Cairo cabarets to Paris apartments in 1987, the year Dalida died. Stream Dalida (2017) online on iFILM.