NADINE LABAKI
After graduating in audiovisual studies from the University of Beirut, she directed adverts and music videos. In 2004, she embarked on a Festival de Cannes Cinéfondation Residency to write and develop "Caramel", her first feature film, shot two years later and showcased at the Directors' Fortnight in 2007. This joyous, rebellious ode to female camaraderie was distributed worldwide and became the most successful Lebanese film export of all time. Nadine Labaki continued to explore the female condition and religious tensions in "Where do we go now?", a bold, universal fable on tolerance that premiered at Un Certain Regard in 2011. In 2018, Nadine Labaki was in competition at Festival de Cannes with her powerfully moving "Capernaum", and won the Jury Prize. Nominated for a Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, "Capernaum" made its Lebanese director the first woman from the Arabic-speaking world to be nominated in this category.