Biographies: Nadine Labaki - Actor

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Born in Ba’abdat, Nadine Labaki passed her baccalaureate in Beirut in 1993. She obtained a degree in audiovisual studies at Saint Joseph University in Beirut, directing her graduation film “11 Rue Pasteur (1997)” which won the Best Short Film Award at the Biennale of Arab Cinema at the Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris) in 1998. She then directed adverts and many music videos for famous Arab singers, for which she won several awards in 2002 and 2003. In 2004, she took part in the Festival de Cannes Residence to finish writing “Caramel”, her first feature film that she shot in 2006. Caramel screened in Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes in 2007 and was a commercial success in France in the summer of that year. The film sold worldwide. Her second feature film “Where do we go now?” is the only Arabic film to be chosen in the Official Selection of “Un certain regard i.e. A certain glance” at the Festival de Cannes 2011. The film won the François Chalais prize (dedicated to the values of journalism).

• 23 May 2011
• Achraf Wassim