Danielle Arbid

Only Rebels Win (2026)

Suzanne and Osmane meet in crisis-ridden Beirut. Osmane is a young Sudanese man without papers, searching for a better future; Suzanne is a widow with Palestinian roots more than twice his age. Against all odds, they fall in love. ...

Un Tueur (2023)

I Give My Heart a Medal for Letting Go of You (2022)

A photo intended for a lover and never sent ...

Simple Passion (2021)

A man and a woman are brought together by chance for several months. He is younger than she is, married, Russian, officially a diplomat stationed in Paris. She is a beautiful teacher and researcher, with her feet firmly on the ground. The film follows the ...

Outside (2020)

During the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic, filmmaker Danielle Arbid becomes obsessed with a mysterious girl she sees from the window of her apartment in Paris. Shot from her cellphone, better watched vertically, Outiside is the gripping short film ...

Blackjack (2020)

Le Feu au cœur (2017)

By a miracle, on an autumn day at the 104-Cenquatre Paris, ten dancers came to show what they could do at the event "Fous de danse" initiated by Le Musée de la danse and Boris Charmatz. They looked exalted, unswervingly optimistic, fifteen years old and f ...

Parisienne (2016)

18-year-old Lina arrives in Paris for her studies. She comes to look for what she has never found in Lebanon, her country of origin: a certain form of freedom. The survival instinct as the only baggage, she sails from one Paris to another to the rhythm of ...

Beirut Hotel (2011)

One evening, a married young singer Zoha meets the French lawyer Mathieu in a night club in Beirut. Mathieu will become suspected of spying, while Zoha is trying to flee from her husband. Despite these problems, the two will witness a love story for few da ...

This Smell of Sex (2008)

Archival footage of prim young girls alternates with darkened shots of men and women discussing their formative experiences and their fantasies. Their words and the visual representations create a highly poetic erotic tension. ...

A Lost Man (2007)

Inspired by the photographic travels of Antione d'Agata, Danielle Arbid's worldly drama follows a French photographer who travels the globe to seek out the most extreme experiences imaginable. Thomas is a fearless shutterbug who's always willing to put his ...

In the Battlefields (2004)

Lina, a young girl in war-torn Beirut, finds an ally and friend in Sihan, her domineering aunt's maid. Sihan shows Lina what her life could be like, but tests the girl's limits when she asks her to help plot her escape from the city. ...

On Borders (2002)

In this documentary road movie, filmmaker Danielle Arbid tries to conjure up an image of the country that is called Israel or Palestine. ...

Alone with War (2001)

Beirut is a wonderful town. It's like you're at the center of everything. In Beirut, between 1975 and 1990, there was a civil war, everybody wanted to exterminate everybody. Today, war is over. It stopped a day, like that, after having corrupted our lives. ...

Le Passeur (2000)

Ibrahim, a Kurdish refugee, is hired by a French health care mutual which repatriates the bodies of dead Africans to their countries of origin. The day following his employment, he attends his first body recovery in a Paris-area apartment. All of a sudden ...

Raddem (1999)

A young woman searches through war-torn and rebuilding Beirut for a man who took pictures of her home. A home she has only ever known in ruins. ...

D’Agata limite(s) (2019)

Franck Landron follows photographer Antoine d'Agata wherever he goes, to the edges of the world, in a discreet presence, camera in hand. He has been doing hours and hours of rushes, patiently, without hurrying or rushing, he wants this film as fair, as hon ...

Heal the Living (2016)

The intersecting lives of teens on a surfing trip, a woman with a weak heart and two teams of doctors and medical experts. ...

Les Apaches (2013)

While thousands of tourists invade the beaches, camping grounds and clubs, five teenagers from Porto Vecchio hang out. One evening one of them leads the others to an unoccupied luxury villa. They spend the night there. Before they leave, they steal some ob ...

In the Battlefields (2004)

Lina, a young girl in war-torn Beirut, finds an ally and friend in Sihan, her domineering aunt's maid. Sihan shows Lina what her life could be like, but tests the girl's limits when she asks her to help plot her escape from the city. ...