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Nadine Labaki
Capernaum and other films that place everyday Lebanese lives at the centre of social conflict.
Caramel · Where Do We Go Now?
- Born
- 18 February 1974
- Birthplace
- Baabdat, Lebanon
More people
Nadine Labaki
Nadine Labaki is a Lebanese filmmaker and actor whose stories combine intimate relationships with poverty, displacement and communal tension.
Early life
Civil-war childhood
She grew up during Lebanon’s civil war.
Film studies
She studied audiovisual production at Saint Joseph University in Beirut.
Career
- 1990s–2000s
Music videos
She directed videos and advertisements before feature films.
- 2007
Feature debut
Caramel introduced her ensemble storytelling to international audiences.
- 2018
International breakthrough
Capernaum won the Cannes Jury Prize and received an Oscar nomination.
Selected work
Caramel
Women share personal dilemmas in a Beirut beauty salon.
Where Do We Go Now?
Women in a village try to prevent sectarian conflict.
Capernaum
A neglected child challenges his parents in court.
Beyond work
City politics
She stood with the Beirut Madinati municipal election list in 2016.
Music partnership
Composer Khaled Mouzanar, her husband, has worked on her films.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Biographical dates and identifiers ↗Cannes: 2018 retrospective ↗Photo: Nadine Labaki. CC BY 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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