Danielle Arbid

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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.

Most Popular Danielle Arbid Trailers

Total trailers found: 19

Simple Passion Trailer (2021)

14 January 2021

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.

A Lost Man Trailer (2007)

19 September 2007

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.

Heal the Living Trailer (2016)

01 November 2016

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

On Borders Trailer (2002)

30 October 2002

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

Only Rebels Win Trailer (2026)

24 June 2026

Suzanne and Osmane meet in crisis-ridden Beirut. Osmane is a young Sudanese man without papers, searching for a better future; Suzanne is a widow with Palestinian roots more than twice his age.

Un Tueur Trailer (2023)

22 October 2023

Outside Trailer (2020)

16 March 2020

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.

Parisienne Trailer (2016)

10 February 2016

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.

D’Agata limite(s) Trailer (2019)

27 March 2019

Franck Landron follows photographer Antoine d'Agata wherever he goes, to the edges of the world, in a discreet presence, camera in hand.

This Smell of Sex Trailer (2008)

01 January 2008

Archival footage of prim young girls alternates with darkened shots of men and women discussing their formative experiences and their fantasies.

Blackjack Trailer (2020)

11 February 2020

I Give My Heart a Medal for Letting Go of You Trailer (2022)

06 July 2022

A photo intended for a lover and never sent

Le Feu au cœur Trailer (2017)

04 January 2017

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.

Alone with War Trailer (2001)

02 April 2001

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.

Beirut Hotel Trailer (2011)

08 March 2011

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.

Raddem Trailer (1999)

01 February 1999

A young woman searches through war-torn and rebuilding Beirut for a man who took pictures of her home.

In the Battlefields Trailer (2004)

29 December 2004

Lina, a young girl in war-torn Beirut, finds an ally and friend in Sihan, her domineering aunt's maid.

Les Apaches Trailer (2013)

14 August 2013

While thousands of tourists invade the beaches, camping grounds and clubs, five teenagers from Porto Vecchio hang out.

Le Passeur Trailer (2000)

18 December 2000

Ibrahim, a Kurdish refugee, is hired by a French health care mutual which repatriates the bodies of dead Africans to their countries of origin.