Danielle Arbid

Directing

Danielle Arbid

Born 1970-04-26 · Beyrouth, Liban

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Danielle Arbid, born 26 April 1970 in Beirut, is a Lebanese film director. She left her country at the age of 17 to study literature in Paris. In 1997 she started making films. Interested in different narrative forms, her work alternates between fiction, first person documentaries and video essays; and sometimes she experiments with mixing different genres. Selected by a number of festivals in France and around the world, her films like Alone with war or On borders and the serie Living room conversations have received both critical and public acclaim as well as several awards including the golden leopard and silver leopard at the Locarno film festival as well as the Albert Londres prize and a grant from the Villa Medicis. Her two feature films In the Battlefields and A lost man have successively been selected for the Quinzaine des réalisateurs at the Cannes film festival and many others. Her work has been the focus of several retrospective screenings, notably the Bastia festival in 2006, Paris Cinéma in 2007, and the 2007 Gijon festival, and at the La Rochelle festival in 2008. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danielle Arbid, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Simple Passion poster
5.8

A man and a woman are brought together by chance for several months. He is younger than she is, married, Russian, officially a diplomat stationed in Paris. She is a beautiful teacher and researcher, with her feet firmly on the ground. The film follows the evolution of their love, from the beginning to end.

Simple Passion

2021

On Borders poster
8.0

In this documentary road movie, filmmaker Danielle Arbid tries to conjure up an image of the country that is called Israel or Palestine.

On Borders

2002

Only Rebels Win poster
7.0

Suzanne and Osmane meet in crisis-ridden Beirut. Osmane is a young Sudanese man without papers, searching for a better future; Suzanne is a widow with Palestinian roots more than twice his age. Against all odds, they fall in love.

Only Rebels Win

2026

Only Rebels Win poster
7.0

Suzanne and Osmane meet in crisis-ridden Beirut. Osmane is a young Sudanese man without papers, searching for a better future; Suzanne is a widow with Palestinian roots more than twice his age. Against all odds, they fall in love.

Only Rebels Win

2026

No artwork available
NR

During the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic, filmmaker Danielle Arbid becomes obsessed with a mysterious girl she sees from the window of her apartment in Paris. Shot from her cellphone, better watched vertically, Outiside is the gripping short film that tells the story of what happened next.

Outside

2020

In the Battlefields poster
6.1

Lina, a young girl in war-torn Beirut, finds an ally and friend in Sihan, her domineering aunt's maid. Sihan shows Lina what her life could be like, but tests the girl's limits when she asks her to help plot her escape from the city.

In the Battlefields

2004

In the Battlefields poster
6.1

Lina, a young girl in war-torn Beirut, finds an ally and friend in Sihan, her domineering aunt's maid. Sihan shows Lina what her life could be like, but tests the girl's limits when she asks her to help plot her escape from the city.

In the Battlefields

2004

Beirut Hotel poster
4.8

One evening, a married young singer Zoha meets the French lawyer Mathieu in a night club in Beirut. Mathieu will become suspected of spying, while Zoha is trying to flee from her husband. Despite these problems, the two will witness a love story for few days mixed with violence and fear.

Beirut Hotel

2011

Beirut Hotel poster
4.8

One evening, a married young singer Zoha meets the French lawyer Mathieu in a night club in Beirut. Mathieu will become suspected of spying, while Zoha is trying to flee from her husband. Despite these problems, the two will witness a love story for few days mixed with violence and fear.

Beirut Hotel

2011

Parisienne poster
5.9

18-year-old Lina arrives in Paris for her studies. She comes to look for what she has never found in Lebanon, her country of origin: a certain form of freedom. The survival instinct as the only baggage, she sails from one Paris to another to the rhythm of her romantic encounters.

Parisienne

2016

Parisienne poster
5.9

18-year-old Lina arrives in Paris for her studies. She comes to look for what she has never found in Lebanon, her country of origin: a certain form of freedom. The survival instinct as the only baggage, she sails from one Paris to another to the rhythm of her romantic encounters.

Parisienne

2016

Raddem poster
8.0

A young woman searches through war-torn and rebuilding Beirut for a man who took pictures of her home. A home she has only ever known in ruins.

Raddem

1999

A Lost Man poster
4.0

Inspired by the photographic travels of Antione d'Agata, Danielle Arbid's worldly drama follows a French photographer who travels the globe to seek out the most extreme experiences imaginable. Thomas is a fearless shutterbug who's always willing to put his life on the line for the sake of a good shot. Upon falling under the spell of an enigmatic old man named Fouad Saleh, the photographer travels to the Far East in hopes of uncovering the secrets of the man who can no longer recall his own past. As the photographer soon finds out, it's often the most innocent endeavors that yield the most profound and transformative results.

A Lost Man

2007

A Lost Man poster
4.0

Inspired by the photographic travels of Antione d'Agata, Danielle Arbid's worldly drama follows a French photographer who travels the globe to seek out the most extreme experiences imaginable. Thomas is a fearless shutterbug who's always willing to put his life on the line for the sake of a good shot. Upon falling under the spell of an enigmatic old man named Fouad Saleh, the photographer travels to the Far East in hopes of uncovering the secrets of the man who can no longer recall his own past. As the photographer soon finds out, it's often the most innocent endeavors that yield the most profound and transformative results.

A Lost Man

2007

Un Tueur poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un Tueur

2023

No artwork available
8.0

Ibrahim, a Kurdish refugee, is hired by a French health care mutual which repatriates the bodies of dead Africans to their countries of origin. The day following his employment, he attends his first body recovery in a Paris-area apartment. All of a sudden Ibrahim is plunged into a baffling universe that will make him a modern Charon, the ferryman who,in Greek mythology, carried the souls of the newly deceased to the world of the dead.

Le Passeur

2000

This Smell of Sex poster
6.0

Archival footage of prim young girls alternates with darkened shots of men and women discussing their formative experiences and their fantasies. Their words and the visual representations create a highly poetic erotic tension.

This Smell of Sex

2008

This Smell of Sex poster
6.0

Archival footage of prim young girls alternates with darkened shots of men and women discussing their formative experiences and their fantasies. Their words and the visual representations create a highly poetic erotic tension.

This Smell of Sex

2008

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Blackjack

2020

No artwork available
NR

By a miracle, on an autumn day at the 104-Cenquatre Paris, ten dancers came to show what they could do at the event "Fous de danse" initiated by Le Musée de la danse and Boris Charmatz. They looked exalted, unswervingly optimistic, fifteen years old and full of the sophisticated references of Street dance.

Le Feu au cœur

2017

No artwork available
NR

By a miracle, on an autumn day at the 104-Cenquatre Paris, ten dancers came to show what they could do at the event "Fous de danse" initiated by Le Musée de la danse and Boris Charmatz. They looked exalted, unswervingly optimistic, fifteen years old and full of the sophisticated references of Street dance.

Le Feu au cœur

2017

Alone with War poster
7.3

Beirut is a wonderful town. It's like you're at the center of everything. In Beirut, between 1975 and 1990, there was a civil war, everybody wanted to exterminate everybody. Today, war is over. It stopped a day, like that, after having corrupted our lives. I wanted to shoot the void it had left. Its ghostly presence. That wound...

Alone with War

2001

Alone with War poster
7.3

Beirut is a wonderful town. It's like you're at the center of everything. In Beirut, between 1975 and 1990, there was a civil war, everybody wanted to exterminate everybody. Today, war is over. It stopped a day, like that, after having corrupted our lives. I wanted to shoot the void it had left. Its ghostly presence. That wound...

Alone with War

2001

No artwork available
NR

A photo intended for a lover and never sent

I Give My Heart a Medal for Letting Go of You

2022