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Nadine Labaki photographed by Ammar Abd Rabbo

Nadine Labaki photographed by Ammar Abd Rabbo

Nadine Labaki on Directing, Freedom and Cinema’s True Power

E. Nina Rothe April 15, 2018

A good forty-four years after Lebanese director Heiny Srour had her film featured in the Official Competition at the Festival de Cannes, Nadine Labaki once again breaks all records, foregoes all the unspoken rules and becomes the second woman filmmaker from the Arab world ever to be chosen to be part of the prestigious lineup. And in fact, we can count the women directors who have been on that list on the tips of our fingers... 

It's no wonder that the cool, glamorous and utterly fantastic Labaki and her crew (including her composer husband Khaled Mouzanar, who lends the music to all her cinematic masterpieces) celebrated the news of her latest 'Capernaum' being nominated for a Palme d'Or with a video that has gone viral on her social media.

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In Celebrity, Festivals, Interviews Tags Nadine Labaki, Festival de Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Caramel, Where do we go now?, Ammar Abd Rabbo, cinema, Isabella Rossellini, Tahar Rahim, Haifaa Al Mansour, Panos Koutras, Martin Scorsese, Lebanon, Lebanese cinema, Arab cinema, MeToo, Capharnaum, Official Competition, Khaled Mouzanar, Palme d'Or, Heiny Srour, SAAT EL TAHRIR DAKKAT, BARRA YA ISTI 'MAR, Capernaum
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