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Danielle Arbid

Danielle Arbidis a FrenchfilmmakerofLebaneseorigin who has been directing films since 1997.

Danielle Arbid
Born
Danielle Arbid

Beirut,Lebanon
CitizenshipFrench
OccupationFilm director

Her work has been selected for numerous film festivals, includingCannes Film Festival,Toronto FF, New York FF, San Francisco,Locarno Festival,Busan andSan Sebastián Film Festival.Danielle Arbid's Simple Passion, her fourth feature, was listed in the Cannes official selection, in 2020. Her first two features,Dans les champs de bataille[fr]andUn homme perdu,were screened at theDirectors' Fortnightat 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 theGold LeopardforConversations de Salonat theLocarno Festivaland the Silver Leopard also at theLocarno Festivalfor video forSeule avec la Guerrein 2001 and 2004 respectively, as well as theAlbert Londres Prize,and theVilla MediciHors les murs Award forAux Frontières.

Danielle Arbid is representing Lebanon at the 2022 Edition of the59th Venice Biennale.[1][2]- The Lebanese pavilion has been nominated as one of the "Top 15 Pavilions not-to-be-missed" by theFinancial Times,Le Monde,[3]theArt Newspaper[4]and the Quotidien de l'Art.[5][6][7]

Early life and education

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Danielle Arbid left Lebanon at the height of the civil war in 1987, at the age of 17, to study literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France.[8]She also studied journalism.

Career

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She directed her first shortRaddemand the documentarySeule avec la guerre(1999).[9]Having never studied film in school, Arbid says her inspiration comes from "art, photography, people in the street and of course film".[10]

Her first three Conversation de Salon I-III where featured at theMuseum of Applied Artsin Vienna, Austria[11]and received theGolden Leopardat 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.[12]

In 2011, Danielle Arbid also directed theBeirut HotelTV-movie for Arte aired during prime time, becoming one of the channel's most popular fiction broadcasts in 2012.[13]

Her third fiction feature,Parisiennewon the Académie Lumière foreign press prize, as well as other awards including the Best Actress prize atLes Arcsin 2016.Parisienne (film)had its world première at theToronto International Film Festival.

Simple Passionis her fourth feature film.[9]It's an adaptation from the major French writerAnnie Ernauxsbest-seller book. Simple Passion was selected by theCannes Film Festivalin 2020.[14]It was also selected in theSan 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 obtained rave reviews from the international press - including The Telegraph,[15]the Guardian,[16]TimeOut,[17]Culture Fix,[18]Sight and Sound,[19]Film Hounds,[20]Film Threat.[21]

Five retrospectives have been held around Danielle Arbid's films at theGijón International Film Festivalin 2007, Bastia Festival in 2007, Paris Cinéma in 2007, theFestival de la FictionatLa Rochelle,France, in 2008 and Festival Dei Popoli Florence in 2016.

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

In 2018, she also directedLe Feu au cœur,a short film for theParis Opéra.[22]

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 ofCahiers du Cinéma.

As an actress, she has worked in few films, includingThe Apaches[fr](2013) andRepair the Living[fr](2015).

She is also aart photographerwho exhibited at numerous galleries, including the Galerie Cinéma in Paris, Photomed Beirut, andRougeL'Expo.

Filmography

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  • 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

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See also

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References

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  1. ^"The artist duo Danielle Arbid and Ayman Baalbaki will represent Lebanon at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia".2 February 2022.
  2. ^"Biennale Arte 2022 | National Participations".15 April 2022.
  3. ^"La Biennale de Venise met les femmes à l'honneur".Le Monde.fr(in French). 22 April 2022.
  4. ^"Venice Biennale 2022: the must-see pavilions in the Arsenale".The Art Newspaper - International art news and events.20 April 2022.
  5. ^Foster, Kristina; Dawood, Dalia (14 April 2022)."What not to miss in and around the Venice Biennale".Financial Times.
  6. ^"Danielle Arbid et Ayman Baalbaki au pavillon libanais".Le Quotidien de l'Art(in French).
  7. ^"Hors-série du 16 avril 2022".Le Quotidien de l'Art(in French).Retrieved18 April2022.
  8. ^iniva | Danielle Arbid Profile |http:// iniva.org/library/archive/people/a/arbid_danielleArchived2014-12-22 at theWayback Machine
  9. ^abVaillant, Luc Le; Bonnet, photo Jérôme."Danielle Arbid, passion compliquée".Libération.
  10. ^"Interview with Danielle Arbid".Archived fromthe originalon 29 October 2016.Retrieved30 April2019.
  11. ^"gangart".gangart.org.Retrieved30 April2019.
  12. ^Westmoreland, Mark Ryan (2008).Crisis of Representation: Experimental Documentary in Postwar Lebanon.Austin: University of Texas. pp. 164–165.
  13. ^"La censure fait a nouveau des siennes: le film Beirut Hotel de Danielle Arbid interdit de projection".L'Orient-Le Jour.18 June 2012. Archived fromthe originalon 18 June 2012.
  14. ^Arbid, Danielle (22 September 2020)."Danielle Arbid • Director ofSimple Passion".Cineuropa.Interviewed by Lemercier, Fabien.Retrieved20 January2024.
  15. ^Robey, Tim (4 February 2021)."Simple Passion, review: Sergei Polunin steams up a Fifty Shades with Gallic soul".The Telegraph.ISSN0307-1235.Retrieved18 April2022.
  16. ^"Simple Passion review – sensitive French study of erotic obsession".the Guardian.3 February 2021.Retrieved18 April2022.
  17. ^Oliver, Huw."Simple Passion review: A probing character study of a woman lost in lust".Time Out Worldwide.Retrieved18 April2022.
  18. ^"Danielle Arbid – Culture Fix".Retrieved18 April2022.
  19. ^"Simple Passion review: a woman in the thrall of love".Sight and Sound.
  20. ^"Submissive Fantasia – Simple Passion (Film Review)".Filmhounds Magazine.15 January 2021.Retrieved18 April2022.
  21. ^"Simple Passion | Film Threat".26 March 2022.
  22. ^"Le feu au cœur - Danielle Arbid - 3e Scène".l'Opéra chez soi.

Bibliography

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  • 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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