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Danielle Arbid
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Danielle Arbid
Beirut, Lebanon
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Danielle Arbid is a French filmmaker from Lebanon. She has been making movies since 1997.
Her films have been shown at many famous film festivals around the world. These include the Cannes Film Festival, Toronto, New York, and Locarno Festival. Her movie Simple Passion was chosen for the official selection at Cannes in 2020. Her first two feature films, Dans les champs de bataille and Un homme perdu, were also shown at Cannes in 2004 and 2007. They won many awards, like the Directors' Fortnight Prize.
Danielle Arbid's documentaries and other film projects have also received great praise. She won the Golden Leopard for Conversations de Salon and the Silver Leopard for Seule avec la Guerre at the Locarno Festival. She also received the Albert Londres Prize, which is like a French Pulitzer Prize.
In 2022, Danielle Arbid represented Lebanon at the 59th Venice Biennale, a big art exhibition. The Lebanese display was named one of the "Top 15 Pavilions not-to-be-missed" by major newspapers.
Early life and education
Danielle Arbid left Lebanon in 1987 when she was 17 years old. This was during the country's civil war. She moved to Paris, France, to study literature at the Sorbonne University. She also studied journalism there.
Career
Danielle Arbid directed her first short film, Raddem, and a documentary called Seule avec la guerre in 1999. She never went to film school. She says she gets her ideas from art, photos, people she sees, and other movies.
Her first three Conversation de Salon films were shown at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. They won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. Danielle Arbid likes to try different ways of telling stories. Her work often mixes fiction, documentaries about her own experiences, and video essays. She was also one of the people who started the Lebanese film festival "Né à Beyrouth" in 2001.
In 2011, Danielle Arbid directed the TV movie Beirut Hotel for Arte, a TV channel. It was very popular and became one of the channel's most-watched fiction shows in 2012.
Her third feature film, Parisienne, won the Académie Lumière foreign press prize. It also won the Best Actress prize at Les Arcs Film Festival in 2016. Parisienne (film) was first shown at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Simple Passion is her fourth feature film. It is based on a famous book by the French writer Annie Ernaux. Simple Passion was chosen for the Cannes Film Festival in 2020. It was also shown at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and Busan International Film Festival. The movie received excellent reviews from international newspapers and magazines.
Danielle Arbid's films have been featured in special collections called "retrospectives" five times. These events celebrate her work and have been held at film festivals in Gijón, Bastia, Paris, La Rochelle, and Florence.
Her video art has been shown in important museums. These include the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Vienna Museum of Art.
In 2018, she directed a short film called Le Feu au cœur for the Paris Opera.
A documentary about her work, "Danielle Arbid, un chant de bataille", was made in 2017. It is part of a famous series called "Cinéastes de notre temps".
Danielle Arbid has also acted in a few movies. These include The Apaches (2013) and Repair the Living (2015).
She is also an art photographer. Her photos have been shown in many galleries, including Galerie Cinéma in Paris.
Filmography
- 1998: Raddem (Short, fiction, 17 minutes)
- 1999: Le passeur (Short, fiction, 13 minutes)
- 2000: Seule avec la guerre (Documentary, 60 minutes)
- 2002: Étrangère (Fiction, 46 minutes)
- 2002: Aux frontières (Documentary, 60 minutes)
- 2004: In the battlefields (Feature film)
- 2004: Nous / Nihna (13 minutes)
- 2004: Conversation de Salon 1, 2 et 3 (3 films, 10 minutes each)
- 2007: A lost man (Feature film)
- 2009: Conversation de salon 4, 5 et 6 (3 films, 10 minutes each)
- 2011: Beirut Hotel (TV Feature, 99 minutes)
- 2015: Parisienne (Peur de rien) (Premiered at TIFF)
- 2020: Simple Passion (Feature film)
Awards and recognition
Danielle Arbid has won many awards for her films and documentaries. Some of the most important ones include:
- Golden Leopard - Video 2004 at Locarno International Film Festival for Conversation de salon 1–2–3.
- Recognition at the Cannes Film Festival 2004, Directors' Fortnight for Dans les Champs de bataille (In the Battlefields).
- Silver Leopard - Video 2000 at Locarno International Film Festival for Seule avec la guerre.
- Albert Londres Prize 2001 (a top French journalism award).
- Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters (a French honor for contributions to art).
- Grand Prize at the Milan Festival 2004.
- Prix de l'Académie Lumière, from the foreign press in France, for Peur de rien / Parisienne.
- Best First Film Prize at Hot Docs Toronto.
- Prix d'interprétation féminine (Best Actress Award) at the Festival des Arcs for Peur de rien / Parisienne.
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