DANIELLE ARBID

Born in Beirut and based in France, the Lebanese director Danielle Arbid has made films since the late 1990s, moving freely between documentary, essay and fiction, and returning constantly to bodies, desire and the way war and exile mark them. Seule avec la guerre won the Silver Leopard at Locarno, and her series Conversations de salon took the video Golden Leopard there. Dans les champs de bataille and Un homme perdu were both selected at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes, and Peur de rien followed a young Lebanese woman arriving in 1990s Paris. Passion simple, adapted from Annie Ernaux, carried the Cannes Official Selection label and competed at San Sebastián. She represented Lebanon at the Venice Biennale.