Danielle Arbid (born 26 April 1970) is a French

filmmaker Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, castin ...

of Lebanese origin. She has been directing films since 1997. Her work has been selected for numerous film festivals, including

Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films o ...

, Toronto FF, New York FF, San Francisco,

Locarno Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, sh ...

, Busan and San Sebastián Film Festival. Danielle Arbid's Simple Passion, her fourth feature, was listed in the Cannes official selection, in 2020. Her first two features, Dans les champs de bataille and

Un homme perdu ''A Lost Man'' (french: Un homme perdu, ar, رجل ضائع , Levantine Arabic ''rajolon ḍāˀyeˁ'') is a 2007 Lebanese film by the Lebanese director Danielle Arbid. The film premiered on 18 March during the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, in the ...

, were screened at the

Directors' Fortnight The Directors' Fortnight (french: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) is an independent selection of the Cannes Film Festival. It was started in 1969 by the French Directors Guild after the events of May 1968 resulted in cancellation of the Cannes festiv ...

at the Cannes Festival in 2004 and in 2007, as well as in around thirty other festivals, picking up numerous awards, including the Directors' Fortnight Prize and the Milan Grand Prize or the Reflet d’Or at Cinéma-tout-écran, Genève. Her documentaries and other filmed essays have been given an excellent reception and won dozens of awards including the Gold Leopard for ''Conversations de Salon'' at the

and the Silver Leopard also at the

for video for ''Seule avec la Guerre'' in 2001 and 2004 respectively, as well as the Albert Londres Prize, and the

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Hors les murs Award for ''Aux Frontières''. Danielle Arbid is representing Lebanon at the 2022 Edition of the

59th Venice Biennale The 59th Venice Biennale is an international contemporary art exhibition held between April and November 2022. The Venice Biennale takes place biennially in Venice, Italy. Artistic director Cecilia Alemani curated its central exhibition. ...

. - The Lebanese pavillion has been nominated as one of the "Top 15 Pavillon not-to-be-missed" by the

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, the

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and the Quotidien de l'Art.

Early life and education

Danielle Arbid left Lebanon at the height of the civil war in 1987, at the age of 17, to study literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She also studied journalism.

Career

She directed her first short ''Raddem'' and the documentary ''Seule avec la guerre'' (1999). Having never studied film in school, Arbid says her inspiration comes from "art, photography, people in the street and of course film". Her first three Conversation de Salon I-III where featured at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and received the

Golden Leopard The Golden Leopard () is the top prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, an international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. Directors in the process of getting an international reputation are allowed to be ...

at the Locarno Film Festival. Interested in different narrative forms, her work alternates between; fiction, first person documentaries and video essays; with an experimentation of the intersecting of genres. She was one of the founding members of the Lebanese film festival Né à Beyrouth in 2001. In 2011, Danielle Arbid also directed the ''

Beirut Hotel ''Beirut Hotel'' ( ar, بيروت بالليل, translit=Beirut bel layl, french: Beyrouth Hôtel) the third long feature film by Lebanese people, Lebanese director Danielle Arbid, is a 2011 Lebanon, Lebanese film. The film premiered during the Loc ...

'' TV-movie for Arte aired during prime time, becoming one of the channel's most popular fiction broadcasts in 2012. Her third fiction feature, '' Parisienne'' won the Académie Lumière foreign press prize, as well as other awards including the Best Actress prize at Les Arcs in 2016.

Parisienne (film) ''Parisienne'' (french: Peur de rien, lit=Afraid of Nothing) is a 2015 French drama film written and directed by Danielle Arbid. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Cast * M ...

had its world première at the

Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a permane ...

. ''

Simple Passion ''Simple Passion'' (french: Passion simple) is a 2020 Erotic film, erotic Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Danielle Arbid, based on the 1992 autobiographical novel of the same name by Annie Ernaux. The plot follows ...

'' is her fourth feature film. It's an adaptation from the major French writer

Annie Ernaux Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux (; born 1 September 1940) is a French writer, professor of literature and Nobel laureate. Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology. Ernaux was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize ...

s best-seller book. Simple Passion was selected by the

in 2020. It was also selected in the

San Sebastián International Film Festival The San Sebastián International Film Festival ( SSIFF; es, Festival Internacional de San Sebastián, eu, Donostia Zinemaldia) is an annual FIAPF A category film festival held in the Spanish city of Donostia-San Sebastián in September, in th ...

Zurich Film Festival Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) is an annual film festival that has been held in Zürich, Switzerland, since 2005. The festival's main focus is to promote emerging filmmakers from all over the world. In three competition categories only first, second ...

Busan International Film Festival The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF, previously Pusan International Film Festival, PIFF), held annually in Haeundae-gu, Busan (''also'' Pusan), South Korea, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. The first festi ...

, Les Arcs Film Festival, Lisboa & Cintra Film Festival, and the Lumière Festival. Simple Passion obtained rave reviews from the international press - including The Telegraph, the Guardian, TimeOut, Culture Fix, Sight and Sound, Film Hounds,

Film Threat ''Film Threat'' is an online film review publication, and earlier, a national magazine that focused primarily on independent film, although it also reviewed videos and DVDs of mainstream films, as well as Hollywood movies in theaters. It first ...

. Five retrospectives have been held around Danielle Arbid's films at the

Gijón International Film Festival The Gijón International Film Festival ( ast, Festival Internacional de Cine de Xixón or ''FICXixón'') is an annual film festival held in Gijón, a city in northwest Spain. History The festival's origins date back to 1963. In the beginning i ...

in 2007, Bastia Festival in 2007, Paris Cinéma in 2007, the La Rochelle Festival in 2008 and Festival Dei Popoli Florence in 2016. Her videos were presented at the

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, the Vienna Museum of Art, the MAC VAL, Fondation Boghossian (Belgium), and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (France). In 2018, she also directed ''Le Feu au cœur'', a short film for the

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. A documentary about her work titled "Danielle Arbid, un chant de bataille" was produced in 2017 in the prestigious collection "Cinéastes de notre temps" created by André S. Labarthe, former critic of

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. As an actress, she has worked in few films, including '' The Apaches'' (2013) and '' Repair the living'' (2015). She is also a

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who exhibited at numerous galeries, including the Galerie Cinéma in Paris, Photomed Beirut, and ''Rouge'' L'Expo.

Filmography

* 1998: ''Raddem'' (Short, fiction,17') * 1999: ''Le passeur'' (Short, fiction, 13') * 2000: ''Seule avec la guerre'' 0'(documentary) * 2002: ''Étrangère'' (Fiction, 46') * 2002: '' Aux frontières'' 0'Documentary) * 2004: ''

In the battlefields ''In the Battlefields'' (french: Dans les champs de bataille, ar, معارك حب maarek hob) is a 2004 Lebanon, Lebanese film by director Danielle Arbid. The film premiered on May 16 during the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, in the Directors' Fortni ...

'' (Feature) * 2004: ''Nous / Nihna'' 004, 13'* 2004: ''Conversation de Salon 1, 2 et 3'' x10'* 2007: ''

A lost man ''A Lost Man'' (french: Un homme perdu, ar, رجل ضائع , Levantine Arabic ''rajolon ḍāˀyeˁ'') is a 2007 Lebanese film by the Lebanese director Danielle Arbid. The film premiered on 18 March during the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, in th ...

'' (Feature) * 2008: ''This smell of sex'' 1'* 2009: ''Conversation de salon 4, 5 et 6'' x10'* 2011: ''

'' 9'( TV Feature) * 2015: '' Parisienne'' (''Peur de rien'') (Premiere in TIFF) * 2020: ''

Awards and recognition

- Video 2004 at

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/ Conversation de salon 1-2-3. *

2004, la

/ Prix Europa / Dans les Champs de bataille (In the Battlefields) * Silver Leopard - Video 2000 at

/ Seule avec la guerre. * Albert Londres Prize (French Pulitzer) 2001 *

Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters The ''Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' (Order of Arts and letters, Arts and Letters) is an Order (distinction), order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Ministry of Culture (France), Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the w ...

* Best actor award at Mons Festival 1999 * European Youth Jury Award 2000 at

Angers European First Film Festival The Angers European First Film Festival (french: Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers) is an annual film festival held in the city of Angers, France every January since 1989, dedicated to European cinema. History The first edition of this festival t ...

/ Le Passeur 2000 * Prize of the Ecumenical Jury 2000 at

Leipzig DOK Festival DOK Leipzig is a documentary film festival that takes place every year in Leipzig, Germany. It is an international film festival for documentary and animated film founded in 1955 under the name "1st All-German Leipzig Festival of Cultural and Doc ...

/ Seule avec la guerre 2000 * Mediterranean Documentary Prize Calibre 2001 * Grant Villa Médicis Hors-les-murs / Aux Frontières 2002 * Grand Prix at the Vendôme Festival / Étrangère 2002 * Honourable Mention at Oberhausen International Short Film Festival / Conversation de salon 1 2003 * Grand Prix at the Milan Festival 2004. * IMA Grand Prize at Paris Biennal of Arab Cinema/ Dans les champs de bataille 2004 * GTC laboratories Prize at Montpellier Festival 2004 * 16th Mention spéciale du Jury at NATfilm Festival Copenhagen, Denmark, 2005 * Mention spéciale du Jury at New Voices/New Visions Grand Jury Prize at

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2005 * Prix du Jeune jury au festival de Bastia pour Peur de rien / Parisienne 2015 * Prix de l'Académie Lumière, de la presse étrangère en France pour Peur de rien / Parisienne * Best First Film Prize at Hot Docs Toronto * Jury Honourable Mention at Dei Popoli Festival, Florence. * 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. * Best Script Grant at Montpellier Festival. * First work Prize at Tetouan Festival. * Bos'art - Festival del cinema delle culture mediterranee, * Prix d'interprétation féminine au Festival des Arcs pour Peur de rien / Parisienne * Prix de l'Académie Lumière, de la presse étrangère en France pour Peur de rien / Parisienne * Prix Alice Guy at the Festival of Documentary Film, Marseille Festival of Documentary Film pour J'ai Donné A Mon Coeur Une Médaille Pour T'Avoir Oublié

References

Bibliography

Cinéma de Notre Temps : Danielle Arbid – Un chant de bataille — Cinéma du Réel
rchive* Armes, Roy. "Danielle Arbid." Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East: A Dictionary. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 2010. 68–69. * Hillauer, Rebecca. Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. Cairo: American University in Cairo, 2005. 142–143. * Westmoreland, Mark Ryan. Crisis of Representation: Experimental Documentary in Postwar Lebanon. University of Texas, 2008 164-165

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Interviews

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