Roy Arida

Directing

Roy Arida

Known for

Directing

Credits

26 titles

A Lebanese director born in Beirut, he graduated from La Fémis film and television school of PSL Research University, where he studied directing. After graduating in 2011, Roy started working between Paris and Beirut, and equally focusing on feature films and documentaries. In 2012, he co-founded the company STANK Productions in Paris. His feature directorial debut is Under the Concrete (2020), for which he received the Special Jury Prize at the Tripoli Film Festival, and the Saad El Din Wahba Award for Best Arab Film at the Cairo International Film Festival.

Known for

Behind the camera

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On August 16, 1870, during the final days of the Second Empire, a crowd of peasants beat and tortured a man for several hours before burning him alive. The main perpetrators were people with no criminal record.

Hautefaye

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Bruno Reidal: Confession of a Murderer poster
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Raulhac, Cantal, France, September 1, 1905. In the forest surrounding his hometown, the young seminarian Bruno Reidal murders a child and then surrenders himself to the authorities.

Bruno Reidal: Confession of a Murderer

2022

La Buissonnière poster
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La Buissonnière

2013

Ba'adana poster
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Lebanon. Summer 2010. War is looming. Zeina and Toufic have been together for several years; but Toufic is preparing to leave the country...

Ba'adana

2011

Ba'adana poster
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Lebanon. Summer 2010. War is looming. Zeina and Toufic have been together for several years; but Toufic is preparing to leave the country...

Ba'adana

2011

Lou Ganiou poster
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Lou Ganiou

2018

Lou Ganiou poster
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Lou Ganiou

2018

Les Herbes Folles poster
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An egg. Two men. A rifle. A window. Or the awakening of two snipers in times of civil war

Les Herbes Folles

2009

Les Herbes Folles poster
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An egg. Two men. A rifle. A window. Or the awakening of two snipers in times of civil war

Les Herbes Folles

2009

À l'école des pompes funèbres poster
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À l'école des pompes funèbres

2017

Deaf poster
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Beirut, Lebanon. Hassan is assembling wooden boards. His wife is dead. He is building her coffin. Tamara and Rami, the children, in their twenties, are helping him as best they can to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her childhood village, abandoned for more than 20 years.

Deaf

2022

Deaf poster
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Beirut, Lebanon. Hassan is assembling wooden boards. His wife is dead. He is building her coffin. Tamara and Rami, the children, in their twenties, are helping him as best they can to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her childhood village, abandoned for more than 20 years.

Deaf

2022

Ruines poster
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Assaad, Lebanese settled in Paris, works every day in a foreign exchange office. He was a milician. He became vampire. A Socio-political drift allegory

Ruines

2010

I See Red People poster
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After twenty-five years spent in France, I return to Bulgaria, camera in hand, with a vertiginous suspicion: what if my family had collaborated with the political police of the communist regime? And what if they were part of the "red trash" that the demonstrators on the street want to see disappear? I decide to investigate and to film, constantly, ready for anything. My adventure transforms itself into a tragic comic odyssey; a film that combines espionage with family.

I See Red People

2019

Under The Concrete poster
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Beirut, Lebanon 2017. As the country trembles a man decides to attempt to break the world record of depth in deep diving.

Under The Concrete

2020

Under The Concrete poster
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Beirut, Lebanon 2017. As the country trembles a man decides to attempt to break the world record of depth in deep diving.

Under The Concrete

2020

Hôtel Victoria poster
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Hotel Victoria. 726 chacabuco. San Telmo. Buenos Aires Delving into the daily life of the hotel, meeting people passing through and others who have settled there, the film attempts to portray this place located in the oldest district of the Argentine capital, and its inhabitants.

Hôtel Victoria

2011

Hôtel Victoria poster
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Hotel Victoria. 726 chacabuco. San Telmo. Buenos Aires Delving into the daily life of the hotel, meeting people passing through and others who have settled there, the film attempts to portray this place located in the oldest district of the Argentine capital, and its inhabitants.

Hôtel Victoria

2011

La Vie poster
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Franck is an astrophysicist. His job is to perform laser drillings with the Lynx, an exploration rover on Mars. Assisted by his collegues, he spends the night looking for traces of organic life by examining rocks. In the morning, he will meet with his son who has been traveling around the world after staying with his mother.

La Vie

2022

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Lebanon. A few months after the 2006 war, following violent clashes between football fans, the government banned the public from entering stadiums. Three years later, and a stagnant political situation, matches are still taking place behind closed doors

Attaque

2010

La chaleur des autres ne réchauffe pas poster
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Khalil Yahya was born in 1965 in Hebron, Palestine. Forced to leave his country after the Six-Day War in 1967, Khalil traveled across the Arab world, from city to city, from refugee camp to refugee camp, until he found refuge in France, in Paris, where he still lives today. The film attempts to tell the story of this man's exile and, through his two daughters, addresses the question of the transmission, from one generation to the next, of a story, a cause and an identity

La chaleur des autres ne réchauffe pas

2008

La chaleur des autres ne réchauffe pas poster
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Khalil Yahya was born in 1965 in Hebron, Palestine. Forced to leave his country after the Six-Day War in 1967, Khalil traveled across the Arab world, from city to city, from refugee camp to refugee camp, until he found refuge in France, in Paris, where he still lives today. The film attempts to tell the story of this man's exile and, through his two daughters, addresses the question of the transmission, from one generation to the next, of a story, a cause and an identity

La chaleur des autres ne réchauffe pas

2008

Ali, Hachem and Khaled poster
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On August 4, 2020, an explosion devastated the port of Beirut and part of the city. Two hundred people lost their lives. Five thousand were seriously injured. Three hundred thousand were displaced. Following the disaster, we set out to find three port workers who had appeared in one of our films ten years earlier.

Ali, Hachem and Khaled

2021

Khamsin poster
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Lebanon today. The traces of the civil war are all too tangible as government corruption becomes unbearable. In a country where conflict and peace are caught in an endless cycle, musicians from different backgrounds pool their talents to create an underground music scene. Each evokes his or her representation of Lebanon: its shifting geographical, political, historical and social borders, its painful passage through conflict and instability. A touching portrait of a young generation trying to build an oasis in a hostile environment where the forces of destruction continue to wreak havoc.

Khamsin

2019

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Paul and Anna live together in a remote, small house surrounded by woods. A place out of time. Yet, as the place progressively crumbles down, and the elements start to run amok, Anna has a deep foreboding of the possible end to come...

A L'abri

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Paul and Anna live together in a remote, small house surrounded by woods. A place out of time. Yet, as the place progressively crumbles down, and the elements start to run amok, Anna has a deep foreboding of the possible end to come...

A L'abri

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