Nadine Labaki Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Director , Screenwriter more
Lebanese nationality
Birth February 18, 1974 (Beirut, Lebanon)

BIOGRAPHY
After audiovisual studies at IESAV in Beirut, Nadine Labaki directed, at the age of twenty-three, a short film entitled “11 rue Pasteur”, which won the Best Short Film Prize at the Arab Cinema Biennial. She then began as a producer of advertisements, then as a director of clips with which she again won prizes such as the Murex d’or .

She joined the Cannes Film Festival Residency for the writing and development of feature films in 2004. Three years later, her first feature film was released, Caramel, presented at the Directors’ Fortnight of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival , with to the casting of non-professional actresses. A great success, it is one of the best-known and internationally appreciated Lebanese films. Nadine Labaki was made a knight of arts and letters

the following year , a distinction which says a lot about the quality of her work. In 2011, she returned to directing to shoot the film And now where do we go? , humorously evoking the religious tensions reigning in Lebanon. Two years later, she directed one of Rio’s short films I Love You in the company of prestigious directors like John Turturro or Fernando Meirelles. Nadine Labaki then starred in the dramatic comedies Rock the Casbah (2013) and La Rançon de la Gloire (2015). Between the two, in 2014, she played the main female character in the French thriller Mea Culpa alongside Vincent Lindon and Gilles Lellouche . A year later, she was a member of the Un Certain Regard jury by Isabella Rossellini at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2018, her new production, Capernaüm , was released , where she follows the destiny of young Zain, 12, at war with his parents. This romantic odyssey, bordering on documentary, won the jury prize at Cannes