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'''Danielle Arbid''' (born 26 April 1970) is a French [[filmmaker]] of [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] origin.<ref>https://www.thenationalnews.com/weekend/2022/03/25/how-the-arab-world-is-represented-at-venice-biennale-2022/</ref> She has been directing films since 1997.
'''Danielle Arbid''' (born 26 April 1970) is a French [[filmmaker]] of [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] origin.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/weekend/2022/03/25/how-the-arab-world-is-represented-at-venice-biennale-2022/|title=How the Arab world is represented at Venice Biennale 2022|date=March 25, 2022|website=The National}}</ref> She has been directing films since 1997.


Her work has been selected for numerous film festivals, including [[Cannes Film Festival]] and [[San Sebastián International Film Festival]]. Danielle Arbid's first two features, [[:fr:Dans%20les%20champs%20de%20bataille|Dans les champs de bataille]] and [[Un homme perdu]], were screened at the [[Directors' Fortnight]] at the Cannes Festival in 2004 and in 2007, as well as in around thirty other festivals, picking up numerous awards, including the Directors' Fortnight Prize and the Milan Grand Prize or the Reflet d’Or at Cinéma-tout-écran, Genève.
Her work has been selected for numerous film festivals, including [[Cannes Film Festival]] and [[San Sebastián International Film Festival]]. Danielle Arbid's first two features, [[:fr:Dans%20les%20champs%20de%20bataille|Dans les champs de bataille]] and [[Un homme perdu]], were screened at the [[Directors' Fortnight]] at the Cannes Festival in 2004 and in 2007, as well as in around thirty other festivals, picking up numerous awards, including the Directors' Fortnight Prize and the Milan Grand Prize or the Reflet d’Or at Cinéma-tout-écran, Genève.
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Her documentaries and other filmed essays have been given an excellent reception and won dozens of awards including the [[Golden Leopard|Gold Leopard]] for ''Conversations de Salon'' at the [[Locarno Festival]] and the Silver Leopard for video for ''Seule avec la Guerre'' in 2001 and 2004 respectively, as well as the [[Albert Londres Prize]] and the [[Villa Medici]] Hors les murs Award for ''Aux Frontières''.
Her documentaries and other filmed essays have been given an excellent reception and won dozens of awards including the [[Golden Leopard|Gold Leopard]] for ''Conversations de Salon'' at the [[Locarno Festival]] and the Silver Leopard for video for ''Seule avec la Guerre'' in 2001 and 2004 respectively, as well as the [[Albert Londres Prize]] and the [[Villa Medici]] Hors les murs Award for ''Aux Frontières''.


Danielle Arbid is representing Lebanon at the 2022 Edition of the [[59th Venice Biennale]].<ref>https://executive-bulletin.com/art/the-artist-duo-danielle-arbid-and-ayman-baalbaki-will-represent-lebanon-at-the-59th-international-art-exhibition-la-biennale-di-venezia</ref>
Danielle Arbid is representing Lebanon at the 2022 Edition of the [[59th Venice Biennale]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://executive-bulletin.com/art/the-artist-duo-danielle-arbid-and-ayman-baalbaki-will-represent-lebanon-at-the-59th-international-art-exhibition-la-biennale-di-venezia|title=The artist duo Danielle Arbid and Ayman Baalbaki will represent Lebanon at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia|date=February 2, 2022}}</ref>


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
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==Career==
==Career==
She directed her first short ''Raddem'' and the documentary ''Seule ave la guerre'' (1999).<ref>https://www.liberation.fr/culture/cinema/danielle-arbid-passion-compliquee-20210216_2PQHDWWRPVAAZLHX5CSVCBCPQU/</ref> Having never studied film in school, Arbid says her inspiration comes from "art, photography, people in the street and of course film".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.europa-cinemas.org/en/News/Highlights/Interview-of-Danielle-Arbid-director-of-In-the-Battlefields|title=Interview with Danielle Arbid|accessdate=Apr 30, 2019}}</ref>
She directed her first short ''Raddem'' and the documentary ''Seule ave la guerre'' (1999).<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.liberation.fr/culture/cinema/danielle-arbid-passion-compliquee-20210216_2PQHDWWRPVAAZLHX5CSVCBCPQU/|title=Danielle Arbid, passion compliquée|first1=Luc Le|last1=Vaillant|first2=photo Jérôme|last2=Bonnet|website=Libération}}</ref> Having never studied film in school, Arbid says her inspiration comes from "art, photography, people in the street and of course film".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.europa-cinemas.org/en/News/Highlights/Interview-of-Danielle-Arbid-director-of-In-the-Battlefields|title=Interview with Danielle Arbid|accessdate=Apr 30, 2019}}</ref>
Her first three Conversation de Salon I-III where featured at the [[Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien|Museum of Applied Arts]] in Vienna, Austria <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gangart.org/GAtemp/output.htm|title=gangart|website=www.gangart.org|accessdate=Apr 30, 2019}}</ref> and received the [[Golden Leopard]] at the Locarno Film Festival. Interested in different narrative forms, her work alternates between; fiction, first person documentaries and video essays; with an experimentation of the intersecting of genres. She was one of the founding members of the Lebanese film festival Né à Beyrouth in 2001.<ref>{{cite book|last=Westmoreland|first=Mark Ryan|title=Crisis of Representation: Experimental Documentary in Postwar Lebanon|year=2008|publisher=University of Texas|location=Austin|pages=164–165}}</ref>
Her first three Conversation de Salon I-III where featured at the [[Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien|Museum of Applied Arts]] in Vienna, Austria <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gangart.org/GAtemp/output.htm|title=gangart|website=www.gangart.org|accessdate=Apr 30, 2019}}</ref> and received the [[Golden Leopard]] at the Locarno Film Festival. Interested in different narrative forms, her work alternates between; fiction, first person documentaries and video essays; with an experimentation of the intersecting of genres. She was one of the founding members of the Lebanese film festival Né à Beyrouth in 2001.<ref>{{cite book|last=Westmoreland|first=Mark Ryan|title=Crisis of Representation: Experimental Documentary in Postwar Lebanon|year=2008|publisher=University of Texas|location=Austin|pages=164–165}}</ref>


In 2011, Danielle Arbid also directed the ''[[Beirut Hotel]]'' TV-movie for Arte aired during prime time, becoming one of the channel's most popular fiction broadcasts in 2012.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120618085425/http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/%C3%80+La+Une/article/735546/La_censure_fait_a_nouveau_des_siennes+%3A_le_film%3C%3C+Beirut_Hotel+%3E%3E_de_Danielle_Arbid_interdit_de_projection.html</ref>
In 2011, Danielle Arbid also directed the ''[[Beirut Hotel]]'' TV-movie for Arte aired during prime time, becoming one of the channel's most popular fiction broadcasts in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618085425/http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/%C3%80+La+Une/article/735546/La_censure_fait_a_nouveau_des_siennes+:_le_film%3C%3C+Beirut_Hotel+%3E%3E_de_Danielle_Arbid_interdit_de_projection.html|title=La censure fait à nouveau des siennes : le film« Beirut Hotel » de Danielle Arbid interdit de projection &#124; À La Une|date=June 18, 2012|website=L'Orient-Le Jour}}</ref>


Her third fiction feature, ''[[Parisienne (film)|Parisienne]]'' won the Académie Lumière foreign press prize, as well as other awards including the Best Actress prize at Les Arcs in 2016. [[Parisienne (film)]] had its world première at the [[Toronto International Film Festival]].
Her third fiction feature, ''[[Parisienne (film)|Parisienne]]'' won the Académie Lumière foreign press prize, as well as other awards including the Best Actress prize at Les Arcs in 2016. [[Parisienne (film)]] had its world première at the [[Toronto International Film Festival]].


''[[Simple Passion]]'' is her fourth feature film.<ref>https://www.liberation.fr/culture/cinema/danielle-arbid-passion-compliquee-20210216_2PQHDWWRPVAAZLHX5CSVCBCPQU/</ref> It's an adaptation of the major French writer [[Annie Ernaux]]s best-seller book was selected by the [[Cannes Film Festival]] in 2020.<ref>https://cineuropa.org/en/interview/392877/</ref> It was also selected in the [[San Sebastián International Film Festival]], [[Toronto International Film Festival]], [[Zurich Film Festival]], [[Busan International Film Festival]], Les Arcs Film Festival, Lisboa & Cintra Film Festival, and the Lumière Festival.
''[[Simple Passion]]'' is her fourth feature film.<ref name="auto"/> It's an adaptation of the major French writer [[Annie Ernaux]]s best-seller book was selected by the [[Cannes Film Festival]] in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cineuropa.org/en/interview/392877/|title=Danielle Arbid • Director of Simple Passion|website=Cineuropa - the best of european cinema}}</ref> It was also selected in the [[San Sebastián International Film Festival]], [[Toronto International Film Festival]], [[Zurich Film Festival]], [[Busan International Film Festival]], Les Arcs Film Festival, Lisboa & Cintra Film Festival, and the Lumière Festival.


Five retrospectives have been held around Danielle Arbid's films at the [[Gijón International Film Festival]] in 2007, Bastia Festival in 2007, Paris Cinéma in 2007, the La Rochelle Festival in 2008 and Festival Dei Popoli Florence in 2016.
Five retrospectives have been held around Danielle Arbid's films at the [[Gijón International Film Festival]] in 2007, Bastia Festival in 2007, Paris Cinéma in 2007, the La Rochelle Festival in 2008 and Festival Dei Popoli Florence in 2016.
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Her videos were presented at the [[Centre Pompidou]], the [[Vienna Museum of Art]], the [[Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne|MAC VAL]], Fondation Boghossian (Belgium), and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (France).
Her videos were presented at the [[Centre Pompidou]], the [[Vienna Museum of Art]], the [[Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne|MAC VAL]], Fondation Boghossian (Belgium), and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (France).


In 2018, she also directed ''Le Feu au cœur'', a short film for Paris Opéra.<ref>https://chezsoi.operadeparis.fr/3e-scene/videos/le-feu-au-coeur-danielle-arbid</ref>
In 2018, she also directed ''Le Feu au cœur'', a short film for Paris Opéra.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chezsoi.operadeparis.fr/3e-scene/videos/le-feu-au-coeur-danielle-arbid|title=Le feu au cœur - Danielle Arbid - 3e Scène|website=l'Opéra chez soi}}</ref>


She is also a [[fine-art photography|art photographer]] who exhibited at numerous galeries, including the Galerie Cinéma in Paris, Photomed Beirut, and Rouge L'expo.
She is also a [[fine-art photography|art photographer]] who exhibited at numerous galeries, including the Galerie Cinéma in Paris, Photomed Beirut, and Rouge L'expo.
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A documentary about her work titled "Danielle Arbid, un chant de bataille" was produced in 2017 in the prestigious collection "Cinéastes de notre temps" created by André S. Labarthe, former critic of [[Cahiers du Cinéma]].
A documentary about her work titled "Danielle Arbid, un chant de bataille" was produced in 2017 in the prestigious collection "Cinéastes de notre temps" created by André S. Labarthe, former critic of [[Cahiers du Cinéma]].


As an actress, she has worked in multiple films, including ''[[:fr:Les Apaches (film, 2013)|The Apaches]]'' (2013) and ''[[:fr:Réparer les vivants (film)|Repair the living]]'' (2015).<ref>https://www.telerama.fr/cinema/films/reparer-les-vivants,510399.php</ref>
As an actress, she has worked in multiple films, including ''[[:fr:Les Apaches (film, 2013)|The Apaches]]'' (2013) and ''[[:fr:Réparer les vivants (film)|Repair the living]]'' (2015).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telerama.fr/cinema/films/reparer-les-vivants,510399.php|title=Réparer les vivants de Katell Quillévéré (Drame) : la critique Télérama|date=November 5, 2016|website=Télérama}}</ref>


== Filmography ==
== Filmography ==
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==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170324041337/http://www.cinemadureel.org/fr/programme-2017/seances-speciales/cinema-de-notre-temps-danielle-arbid-2013-un-chant-de-bataille ] [archive]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170324041337/http://www.cinemadureel.org/fr/programme-2017/seances-speciales/cinema-de-notre-temps-danielle-arbid-2013-un-chant-de-bataille Cinéma de Notre Temps : Danielle Arbid – Un chant de bataille — Cinéma du Réel] [archive]
* Armes, Roy. "Danielle Arbid." Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East: A Dictionary. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 2010. 68–69.
* Armes, Roy. "Danielle Arbid." Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East: A Dictionary. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 2010. 68–69.
* Hillauer, Rebecca. Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. Cairo: American University in Cairo, 2005. 142–143.
* Hillauer, Rebecca. Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. Cairo: American University in Cairo, 2005. 142–143.

Revision as of 17:17, 10 April 2022

Danielle Arbid
Born
Danielle Arbid

(1970-04-26) 26 April 1970 (age 54)
Beyrouth, Lebanon
CitizenshipFrench
OccupationFilm director

Danielle Arbid (born 26 April 1970) is a French filmmaker of Lebanese origin.[1] She has been directing films since 1997.

Her work has been selected for numerous film festivals, including Cannes Film Festival and San Sebastián International Film Festival. Danielle Arbid's first two features, Dans les champs de bataille and Un homme perdu, were screened at the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Festival in 2004 and in 2007, as well as in around thirty other festivals, picking up numerous awards, including the Directors' Fortnight Prize and the Milan Grand Prize or the Reflet d’Or at Cinéma-tout-écran, Genève.

Her documentaries and other filmed essays have been given an excellent reception and won dozens of awards including the Gold Leopard for Conversations de Salon at the Locarno Festival and the Silver Leopard for video for Seule avec la Guerre in 2001 and 2004 respectively, as well as the Albert Londres Prize and the Villa Medici Hors les murs Award for Aux Frontières.

Danielle Arbid is representing Lebanon at the 2022 Edition of the 59th Venice Biennale.[2]

Early life and education

Arbid left Lebanon at the height of the civil war in 1987, at the age of 17, to study literature at a faculty of letters in Paris, France.[3] She also studied journalism while working as a freelance.

Career

She directed her first short Raddem and the documentary Seule ave la guerre (1999).[4] Having never studied film in school, Arbid says her inspiration comes from "art, photography, people in the street and of course film".[5] Her first three Conversation de Salon I-III where featured at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria [6] and received the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. Interested in different narrative forms, her work alternates between; fiction, first person documentaries and video essays; with an experimentation of the intersecting of genres. She was one of the founding members of the Lebanese film festival Né à Beyrouth in 2001.[7]

In 2011, Danielle Arbid also directed the Beirut Hotel TV-movie for Arte aired during prime time, becoming one of the channel's most popular fiction broadcasts in 2012.[8]

Her third fiction feature, Parisienne won the Académie Lumière foreign press prize, as well as other awards including the Best Actress prize at Les Arcs in 2016. Parisienne (film) had its world première at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Simple Passion is her fourth feature film.[4] It's an adaptation of the major French writer Annie Ernauxs best-seller book was selected by the Cannes Film Festival in 2020.[9] It was also selected in the San Sebastián International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Zurich Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Les Arcs Film Festival, Lisboa & Cintra Film Festival, and the Lumière Festival.

Five retrospectives have been held around Danielle Arbid's films at the Gijón International Film Festival in 2007, Bastia Festival in 2007, Paris Cinéma in 2007, the La Rochelle Festival in 2008 and Festival Dei Popoli Florence in 2016.

Her videos were presented at the Centre Pompidou, the Vienna Museum of Art, the MAC VAL, Fondation Boghossian (Belgium), and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (France).

In 2018, she also directed Le Feu au cœur, a short film for Paris Opéra.[10]

She is also a art photographer who exhibited at numerous galeries, including the Galerie Cinéma in Paris, Photomed Beirut, and Rouge L'expo.

A documentary about her work titled "Danielle Arbid, un chant de bataille" was produced in 2017 in the prestigious collection "Cinéastes de notre temps" created by André S. Labarthe, former critic of Cahiers du Cinéma.

As an actress, she has worked in multiple films, including The Apaches (2013) and Repair the living (2015).[11]

Filmography

  • 1998: Raddem (Short, fiction,17')
  • 1999: Le passeur (Short, fiction, 13')
  • 2000: Seule avec la guerre [60'] (documentary)
  • 2002: Étrangère (Fiction, 46')
  • 2002: Aux frontières [60'](Documentary)
  • 2004: In the battlefields (Feature)
  • 2004: Nous / Nihna [2004, 13']
  • 2004: Conversation de Salon 1, 2 et 3 [3x10']
  • 2007: A lost man (Feature)
  • 2008: This smell of sex [21']
  • 2009: Conversation de salon 4, 5 et 6 [3x10']
  • 2011: Beirut Hotel [99'] ( TV Feature)
  • 2015: Parisienne (Peur de rien) (Premiere in TIFF)
  • 2020: Simple Passion

Awards and recognition

See also

References

  1. ^ "How the Arab world is represented at Venice Biennale 2022". The National. March 25, 2022.
  2. ^ "The artist duo Danielle Arbid and Ayman Baalbaki will represent Lebanon at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia". February 2, 2022.
  3. ^ iniva | Danielle Arbid Profile | http://www.iniva.org/library/archive/people/a/arbid_danielle Archived 2014-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b Vaillant, Luc Le; Bonnet, photo Jérôme. "Danielle Arbid, passion compliquée". Libération.
  5. ^ "Interview with Danielle Arbid". Retrieved Apr 30, 2019.
  6. ^ "gangart". www.gangart.org. Retrieved Apr 30, 2019.
  7. ^ Westmoreland, Mark Ryan (2008). Crisis of Representation: Experimental Documentary in Postwar Lebanon. Austin: University of Texas. pp. 164–165.
  8. ^ "La censure fait à nouveau des siennes : le film« Beirut Hotel » de Danielle Arbid interdit de projection | À La Une". L'Orient-Le Jour. June 18, 2012. {{cite web}}: no-break space character in |title= at position 38 (help)
  9. ^ "Danielle Arbid • Director of Simple Passion". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema.
  10. ^ "Le feu au cœur - Danielle Arbid - 3e Scène". l'Opéra chez soi.
  11. ^ "Réparer les vivants de Katell Quillévéré (Drame) : la critique Télérama". Télérama. November 5, 2016.

Bibliography

  • Cinéma de Notre Temps : Danielle Arbid – Un chant de bataille — Cinéma du Réel [archive]
  • Armes, Roy. "Danielle Arbid." Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East: A Dictionary. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 2010. 68–69.
  • Hillauer, Rebecca. Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. Cairo: American University in Cairo, 2005. 142–143.
  • Westmoreland, Mark Ryan. Crisis of Representation: Experimental Documentary in Postwar Lebanon. University of Texas, 2008 164-165

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