NADINE LABAKI

In 2004, Lebanese actor and director Nadine Labaki attended the Festival de Cannes Cinéfondation Residency, where she wrote and developed Caramel, her first feature-length film, A joyous, rebellious ode to female camaraderie, it became the most successful Lebanese film export of all time after its premiere in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2007.
She followed that success with Where Do We Go Now? (2011), a bold, universal fable that had its premiere at Cannes and won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Her Capernaum (2018) was selected for the Official Competition at Cannes, where it won the Jury Prize and went on to receive BAFTA, Golden Globe, César and Academy Award nominations.
Onscreen, Labaki has appeared in her own films as well as in Fred Cavayé’s Mea Culpa (2014), Georges Hachem’s Stray Bullet (2010), Laïla Marrakchi’s Rock the Casbah (2013), Oualid Mouaness’s 1982 (2019), Mounia Akl’s Costa Brava (2021) and Wissam Smayra’s Perfect Strangers (2022), among others.
She is a recipient of the Insignia of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Ministry of Culture.