Danielle Arbid

Danielle Arbid
Born	26 April 1970 Beirut, Lebanon
Occupation	Director, Actress

Danielle Arbid (Arabic; دانيال عربيد ), born 26 April 1970 in Beirut, is a Lebanese film director.

She left her country at the age of 17 to study literature in Paris. In 1997 she started making films. Interested in different narrative forms, her work alternates between fiction, first person documentaries and video essays; and sometimes she experiments with mixing different genres. Selected by a number of festivals in France and around the world, her films like Alone with war or On borders and the serie Living room conversations have received both critical and public acclaim as well as several awards including the golden leopard and silver leopard at the Locarno film festival as well as the Albert Londres prize and a grant from the Villa Medicis. Her two feature films In the Battlefields and A lost man have successively been selected for the Quinzaine des réalisateurs at the Cannes film festival and many others. Her work has been the focus of several retrospective screenings, notably the Bastia festival in 2006, Paris Cinéma in 2007, and the 2007 Gijon festival, and at the La Rochelle festival in 2008.

Filmography

• 1998 : Raddem (Short, fiction,17')
• 1999 : Le passeur (Short, fiction, 13')
• 2000 : Seule avec la guerre [60'] (documentary)
• 2002 : Étrangère (Fiction, 46’)
• 2002 : Aux frontières [60'](Documentary)
• 2004 : In the battlefields (Feature)
• 2004 : Nous / Nihna [2004, 13’]
• 2004 : Conversation de Salon 1, 2 et 3 [3x10’]
• 2007 : A lost man (Feature)
• 2008 : This smell of sex [21']
• 2009 : Conversation de salon 4, 5 et 6 [3x10']
• 2011 : Beirut Hotel [99'] (Feature)

Awards

• Best actor award at Mons Festival 1999.
• European Youth Jury Award 2000 at Angers European First Film Festival/ Le Passeur.
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury 2000 at Leipzig DOK Festival/ Seule avec la guerre.
• Silver Leopard - Video 2000 at Locarno International Film Festival/ Seule avec la guerre.
• Albert Londres Prize audiovisual 2001.
• Best First Film Prize at Hot Docs Toronto
• Mediterranean Documentary Prize 2001 Calabre
• Jury Honourable Mention at Dei Popoli Festival, Florence.
• Grand Prix at the Vendôme Festival, 2002/ Étrangère
• Grant Villa Médicis Hors-les-murs 2002/ Aux frontières
• Honourable Mention at Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2003/ Conversation de salon 1.
• Golden Leopard - Video 2004 at Locarno International Film Festival/ Conversation de salon 1-2-3.
• Cannes 2004, la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs / Prix Europa / Dans les champs de bataille
• Grand Prix at the Milan Festival 2004.
• Reflet d’Or of the Perspectives section at the Festival Cinéma-tout-écran, Geneva.
• Bayard d’Or of the best script at Namur Festival, Belgium.
• Lady Harimaguada de Plata Prize and José Rivero Prize of the best first film at the Festival Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, Spain.
• Special Prize of the jury at Carthage Festival.
• GTC laboratories Prize at Montpellier Festival 2004.
• IMA Grand Prize 2004 at Paris Biennal of Arab Cinema/ Dans les champs de bataille.
• Best Script Grant at Montpellier Festival.
• First work Prize at Tetouan Festival.
• New Voices/New Visions Grand Jury Prize at Palm Springs International Film Festival 2005/ Dans les champs de bataille.

External links

• Danielle Arbid at the Internet Movie Database

	Lebanon portal
	Film portal

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Name	Arbid, Danielle
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Date of birth	26 April 1970
Place of birth	Beirut, Lebanon
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