Danielle Arbid

Born in Beirut in 1970, Danielle Arbid left her country at the age of 17 to study literature in Paris. In 1997 she started making films.
Selected by the most important festivals in France and around the world (Cannes, New York, San Francisco, Locarno, Pusan, Tokyo, etc.) her two first feature films In the Battlefields and A Lost Man have successively been selected for the Quinzaine des réalisateurs at the Cannes film festival in 2004 and 2007 and won numerous prizes including Director's Fortnight-Europa award and Le Grand prix de Milan. Her films like Alone with War or On Borders and the series 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.

Göteborg Film Festival