International festivals have penetrated by presenting unique works of art in which many social and humanitarian issues are discussed in a simplified manner. What prompted her to become a global bounty hunter. She is the multi-talented director Nadine Labaki, whose life contains many secrets that some may not know, so what are the most prominent of them?
She was born on February 18, 1974 in the Lebanese city of Baabdat. She studied media at Saint Joseph University in Beirut, and her graduation project won an award in Paris later. She began her directing career early in the early nineties in the “Studio El Fan” program, during which she presented a video clip for a singer called “Carla”. And titled “Habibi Ya”, before she decided to work as a video clip director for several songs until the beginning of the millennium, the first of which was Pascal Machaalani’s clip “Bird of Love” in 2000. Despite the early start; “Nadine” did not know the path to stardom and fame until 2002, following she produced Nancy Ajram’s first song, “I quarrel with you, ah.” Also, “Look at Me” with Carole Samaha, “With Your Eyes” with Nawal Al Zoghbi, and “I Retired from Love” by Magda Al Roumi.
She also participated as an actress for the first time through the movie “Al-Bosta” in 2006, and left a distinguished impression until 2007 when she participated in writing the movie “Sugar Girls”, which is her first feature film as a director and actress, in which she discussed many political issues in a comic way. Distinguished and achieved great success, it placed it in the list of the 10 best directors at the Sundance Film Festival, which was followed by many successful works, including “Hala Lewin” and “Capernaum”. Nadine speaks many languages besides Arabic, namely French, English and Italian. She received an honorary doctorate in 2016 from the American University of Beirut, and thanks to her artistic creativity, “Nadine” was able to win many international awards, including: the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, and the best director at the “Cannes”, “San Sebastian” and “Stockholm” festivals. Cinematic, it also won 12 awards out of 20 nominations for the movie Sugar Girls, and in 1998 it won the “Paris Biennial” award for the Best Short Film category, and the Golden Horse Award at the Stockholm Film Festival for the same movie.
