Nadine Labaki

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Nadine Labaki (born February 18, 1974) is a Lebanese actor, director, and activist.

In the early 2000s, Labaki first came into prominence as an actor.

Since the debut of her debut film, Caramel, at the Cannes 2007 Film Festival, her film career began in 2007.

She is best known for demonstrating daily life in Lebanese and writing about a variety of political topics, such as war, poverty, and feminism.

She is the first female Arab filmmaker to be nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film.

Early life

Labaki was born in Baabdat, Lebanon, to a Maronite family and Antoine and Antoinette Labaki. Her father is an engineer, while her mother is a homemaker. She lived in a war-torn environment for the first seventeen years of her life until 1991, when the civil war in Lebanon had begun in Lebanon. She learned the art of storytelling from her uncle, who was the family's hakawati (storyteller). Her grandfather owned a small theater in Lebanon, where she discovered her passion for film. In 1990, she began working with Studio El Fan, a Lebanese talent showcase. The program debuted during the 1970s and then resurfaced in the early 2000s. Labaki received a prize for directing various music video productions at the talent show.

Labaki earned a bachelor's degree in audiovisual studies at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. 11 Rue Pasteur, Sher's graduation film, was nominated for Best Short Film at the Biennale of Arab Cinema in Paris in 1997. Labaki is unusual among Lebanese and Arab Film Makers in that she was not educated or trained in abroad.

She attended a workshop in Paris on acting at the Cours Florent in 1998. She and her sister Caroline Labaki, a well-known Middle Eastern singer, went on to produce ads and music videos for the renowned Middle Eastern singers for whom she has received numerous awards. "She made Lebanese women who were very at ease in their bodies" in order to portray the contemporary Lebanese woman.

Personal life

Labaki is multilingual, fluent in Arabic, French, English, and Italian. Khaled Mouzanar, a singer and composer, married her in 2007. Walid, Nadine Labaki's first child, was born in 2009. Mayroun, Labaki's daughter, was born seven years ago (2016).

In 2016, Labaki received an honorary degree from the American University of Beirut and was the speaker at the 150th Commencement Ceremony.

Nadine Labaki was one of the candidates on the list for the capital's municipal election in May 2016. Beirut Madinati focuses on social justice and the public's welfare by utilizing a diverse group of people as representatives.

Despite winning around 40% of the popular vote, the party lost to its opponents, the 'Beirutis' list', which Saad Hariri's party, in all 6 of 12 wards, but did not receive a single seat under the election's one-district First-past-the-post system, but not in the popular vote.

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Career

Labaki's name became more popular in Arab media in 2003. Nancy Ajram's 2003 debut was also the year she began directing music videos. The song, "Akhasmak ah" (Yes, I'll fight you), sparked controversy due to its scenes of sexually suggestive dancing. The female protagonist of Ajram, who acts as a waitress to male clients, was seen as ineffective and overthrew. Labaki defended her script, saying that Ajram was actually portraying a "assertive and powerful female figure." Labaki and Ajram worked to reimagine the image of the new Arab woman as feminine, alluring, and in command. "Ya Salam," "Lawn Ouyounak," and "Inta Eih," Ajram continued to collaborate with Labaki on her music videos, "Lawn Ouyounak" and "Inta Eih." The three films were named with the highest music video accolades.

Labaki appeared in the Cannes Film Festival Residence for six months in 2005. She wrote Caramel, her first feature film, during that time. She directed and performed one of Caramel's most prominent roles in 2006, which showcases a Beirut that few people are unfamiliar with. She presents a comedy in Beirut that addresses five Lebanese women in terms of romance, sexuality, tradition, mistrust, and everyday ups and downs rather than addressing political issues that have plagued Lebanon. In 2007, the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival for the fourth year, proving a commercial success in the summer of the same year. It sold around the world and won prestigious awards at many festivals around the world, earning Labaki acclaim as both a producer and actress. It also put her on Variety's Top Directors to Watch list at the Sundance Film Festival, which also placed her on the Sundance Film Festival's Top 10 Directors to Watch list. In 2008, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication awarded Insignia of Chevalier to her as part of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Where Does It Go Now, Labaki's second feature film, directed and starred in 2010. The film plays a lighthearted description of a war-ravaged Middle Eastern village in which Muslim and Christian women are trying to discourage their men from starting a religious war. When Labaki was pregnant with her son in 2008, the idea for this film first emerged. At the time, Lebanon was on the brink of the country's most violent conflict in decades. Outbursts emerged in Beirut's streets as a result of the inter-religious war. Labaki argues that friendships have been hostile as a result of religious inconsistency. She began to wonder what terrible lengths mothers would go to to keep their sons from getting weapons and taking to the streets to fight, while pregnant. This one belief sparked the film's plot, in which a whole town of women begins a campaign to discourage the men from brutally killing each other. The incident takes place in Lebanon, but no details are given. "The film is universal... this conflict does not only occur in Lebanon," Labaki's explanation for it. I see it everywhere. ... . We're afraid of each other as human beings." Non-professional actors appear in Caramel's second feature casts. Labaki says that "normal people should be on the big screen" in an attempt to raise the possibility.

In 2011, the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Uncertain Regard category. At the Toronto International Film Festival, the film received the People's Choice Award. In addition, it has received numerous other accolades in festivals around the world, including Cannes Film Festival, San Sebastián International Film Festival, Stockholm Film Festival, and the Doha Tribeca Film Festival. At the Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles, the film was also recognized for the best foreign film. The film's opening weekend brought in the most ever admissions total for an Arabic-speaking film in Lebanon, totaling 21,475 people for a total of $153,358.

In late 2013, Nadine Labaki began working on her third feature film, Capernaum, which was chosen to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. The film follows a 12-year-old boy who lives in Beirut's slums. He is attempting to sue his parents for bringing him into a world of pain and neglect of children. Labaki, Michelle Kesrouani, Georges Khabbaz, and her husband, Khaled Mouzanar, wrote the screenplay. Mouzanar also produced the film and composed the music. Capernaum means "chaos."

Labaki extensively researched the city's children in order to gather evidence of their experiences, stories, and pasts before deciding to write. In this film, she used mainly non-professional actors, including lead actor Zain Al Rafeea, who was discovered in one of the slums with friends and a Syrian immigrant himself. Labaki identifies her process as "very natural" despite a rather anti-classical style of filmmaking. She wanted to give these "forgotten children" a voice and a cinematic platform to spark lasting change.

Labaki's cinematography style borrows cinematic terms such as illuminations, scene lighting, and silence to help convey the meaning in her films. Labaki continues to write and direct films that do not focus on conflict in the wake of often difficult political situations.

Capernaum received the Jury Prize at Cannes, and Labaki received Best Directing at the 12th Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

She was chosen to be on the jury for the Uncertain Regard segment of the Cannes Film Festival in 2015.

Following the success of Capernaum, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the Labaki has since been in France, but Art Media Agency is still represents her in France.

Capernaum's film was nominated in the international-language Oscars category, marking the first for a female director in 2019. She is the first female Arab director to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Zain Al Rafeea and his family have been resettled in Norway in cooperation with the UNHCR and UNICEF. For the first time in their lives, he and his siblings are attending school in the hopes of regaining their childhoods. Labaki claims that this is the highest reward.

Nadine Labaki began acting in short films in the early 2000s. The Seventh Dog, directed by Zeina Durra, starred her. In 2006, the work received the audience award at the Circuito Of Venice International Short Film Festival.

Labaki appeared in "Bosta," a Lebanese musical comedy, in 2006. The film was a box office hit, with "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" outgrossing.

Labaki appeared in her first feature film, Caramel, the same year.

In 2010, Labaki appeared in Stray Bullet, directed by Georges Hachem.

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She has appeared in her films Where Do We Go Now? and She has appeared in her films Where Do We Go Now? Capernaum and Capernaum.

Labaki is often cast in her films. "When I work with the people I portray, they become more relaxed." I like to improvise a lot, and filming it's like directing the scene from the inside."

In 2021, she was selected as a jury member at the 11th Beijing International Film Festival for Tiantan Awards.

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