Danielle Arbid

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Danielle Arbid, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danielle Arbid, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Heal the Living

The intersecting lives of teens on a surfing trip, a woman with a weak heart and two teams of doctors and medical experts.

Release Date2016-11-01

Charactersd Elsa

Vote Count221

Les Apaches

While thousands of tourists invade the beaches, camping grounds and clubs, five teenagers from Porto Vecchio hang out. One evening one of them leads the others to an unoccupied luxury villa. They spend the night there. Before they leave, they steal some objects of no value and two prize rifles. When the house owner arrives from Paris, she complains about the theft to a small local boss she knows…

Release Date2013-08-14

Charactersd Sophie

Vote Count19

D’Agata limite(s)

Franck Landron follows photographer Antoine d'Agata wherever he goes, to the edges of the world, in a discreet presence, camera in hand. He has been doing hours and hours of rushes, patiently, without hurrying or rushing, he wants this film as fair, as honest, and as long as it takes: it lasted six years.

Release Date2019-03-27

Charactersd Self

66-5

Release Date2023-09-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count8

Simple Passion

A man and a woman are brought together by chance for several months. He is younger than she is, married, Russian, officially a diplomat stationed in Paris. She is a beautiful teacher and researcher, with her feet firmly on the ground. The film follows the evolution of their love, from the beginning to end.

Release Date2021-01-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count97

Beirut Hotel

One evening, a married young singer Zoha meets the French lawyer Mathieu in a night club in Beirut. Mathieu will become suspected of spying, while Zoha is trying to flee from her husband. Despite these problems, the two will witness a love story for few days mixed with violence and fear.

Release Date2011-03-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

Sud-est

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Parisienne

18-year-old Lina arrives in Paris for her studies. She comes to look for what she has never found in Lebanon, her country of origin: a certain form of freedom. The survival instinct as the only baggage, she sails from one Paris to another to the rhythm of her romantic encounters.

Release Date2016-02-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count54

A Lost Man

Inspired by the photographic travels of Antione d'Agata, Danielle Arbid's worldly drama follows a French photographer who travels the globe to seek out the most extreme experiences imaginable. Thomas is a fearless shutterbug who's always willing to put his life on the line for the sake of a good shot. Upon falling under the spell of an enigmatic old man named Fouad Saleh, the photographer travels to the Far East in hopes of uncovering the secrets of the man who can no longer recall his own past. As the photographer soon finds out, it's often the most innocent endeavors that yield the most profound and transformative results.

Release Date2007-09-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

Un Tueur

Release Date2023-10-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Love Conquers All

Susan, a 65 year old impoverished widow living in Beirut, meets Osman, a young Sudanese immigrant worker without papers. They instantly fall in love, much to the scandal of everyone around them.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Raddem

A young woman searches through war-torn and rebuilding Beirut for a man who took pictures of her home. A home she has only ever known in ruins.

Release Date1999-02-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Le Passeur

Ibrahim, a Kurdish refugee, is hired by a French health care mutual which repatriates the bodies of dead Africans to their countries of origin. The day following his employment, he attends his first body recovery in a Paris-area apartment. All of a sudden Ibrahim is plunged into a baffling universe that will make him a modern Charon, the ferryman who,in Greek mythology, carried the souls of the newly deceased to the world of the dead.

Release Date2000-12-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

In the Battlefields

Lina, a young girl in war-torn Beirut, finds an ally and friend in Sihan, her domineering aunt's maid. Sihan shows Lina what her life could be like, but tests the girl's limits when she asks her to help plot her escape from the city.

Release Date2004-12-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

Alone with War

Beirut is a wonderful town. It's like you're at the center of everything. In Beirut, between 1975 and 1990, there was a civil war, everybody wanted to exterminate everybody. Today, war is over. It stopped a day, like that, after having corrupted our lives. I wanted to shoot the void it had left. Its ghostly presence. That wound...

Release Date2001-04-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Le Feu au cœur

By a miracle, on an autumn day at the 104-Cenquatre Paris, ten dancers came to show what they could do at the event "Fous de danse" initiated by Le Musée de la danse and Boris Charmatz. They looked exalted, unswervingly optimistic, fifteen years old and full of the sophisticated references of Street dance.

Release Date2017-01-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Outside

During the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic, filmmaker Danielle Arbid becomes obsessed with a mysterious girl she sees from the window of her apartment in Paris. Shot from her cellphone, better watched vertically, Outiside is the gripping short film that tells the story of what happened next.

Release Date2020-03-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

I Give My Heart a Medal for Letting Go of You

A photo intended for a lover and never sent

Release Date2022-07-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Love Conquers All

Suzanne, a sixty-year-old Lebanese widow of Palestinian origin, meets Osmane, a young Black Sudanese migrant without papers, and they fall unexpectedly in love amidst Beirut’s unraveling. As the country teeters on the brink, their relationship sparks outrage, but together they refuse to let fear or prejudice tear them apart.

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

This Smell of Sex

Archival footage of prim young girls alternates with darkened shots of men and women discussing their formative experiences and their fantasies. Their words and the visual representations create a highly poetic erotic tension.

Release Date2008-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

On Borders

In this documentary road movie, filmmaker Danielle Arbid tries to conjure up an image of the country that is called Israel or Palestine.

Release Date2002-10-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Blackjack

Release Date2020-02-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector