Nadine Labaki

Nadine Labaki

Born: February 18, 1974
in Baabdat, Lebanon
Nadine Labaki (born February 18, 1974) is a Lebanese actress and director. She is one of the well known directors in the Arabic music video industry. Nadine is usually credited for bringing artists into the scene.

In 2007, Labaki co-wrote, directed, and starred in her feature-film debut, Caramel, which became an international sensation at film festivals and went on to achieve box office success. It showcases a Beirut that most are not familiar with. Rather than tackle political and religious issues which have plagued Lebanon, she presents a romantic comedy that deals with five Beirut women who gather at a beauty salon and deal with love, sexuality, tradition, disappointment, and everyday ups and downs.

The film garnered Labaki much acclaim as both a director and actress, and put her on Variety's 10 Directors to Look Out for List.

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Swimming Home
Title: Swimming Home
Released: January 28, 2024
Type: Movie
Joe and Isabel’s marriage is dying when Kitti, a naked stranger found floating in the pool at their holiday villa in Greece, is invited to stay. Kitti collects and eats poisonous plants, and Nina, their teenage daughter, is enthralled by her. What kind of relief can Kitti provide for this family in crisis?
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Back to Alexandria
Title: Back to Alexandria
Character: Sue
Released: September 30, 2023
Type: Movie
After more than 20 years, Sue returns from Switzerland to her home country Egypt because her mother Fairouz is in a hospital bed. Sue ran away from the eccentric aristocrat as a young adult. Now she feels compelled to meet her again.
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Costa Brava, Lebanon
Title: Costa Brava, Lebanon
Character: Souraya
Released: January 21, 2022
Type: Movie
Members of a family quit the polluted, rubbish-strewn city of Beirut for an idyllic mountain home. However, their dreams of a utopian existence are shattered by the construction of a landfill on the boundary of their land.
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Perfect Stranger
Title: Perfect Stranger
Character: May
Released: January 20, 2022
Type: Movie
Do we truly know one another? Every one of us has three lives: a public, a private and secret one. What we once stored in our memories is now being stored in our phones - what happens when these are made public?
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1982
Title: 1982
Character: Yasmine
Released: October 1, 2020
Type: Movie
"1982" is a life-affirming coming-of-age tale set at an idyllic school in Lebanon’s mountains on the eve of a looming invasion. It unfolds over a single day and follows an 11-year-old boy’s relentless quest to profess his love to a girl in his class. As the invasion encroaches on Beirut, it upends the day, threatening the entire country and its cohesion. Within the microcosm of the school, the film draws a harrowing portrait of a society torn between its desire for love and peace and the ideological schisms unraveling its seams. In his debut feature, director Oualid Mouaness delivers an ode to innocence in which he revisits one of the most cataclysmic moments in Lebanon's history through the lens of a child and his vibrant imagination. The film demonstrates the complexities of love and war, and the resilience of the human spirit.
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Capernaum
Title: Capernaum
Character: Nadine
Released: September 20, 2018
Type: Movie
Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
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The Idol
Title: The Idol
Character: Shadia
Released: January 21, 2016
Type: Movie
Mohammed Assaf, an aspiring musician living in Gaza, sets a seemingly impossible goal: to compete on the program "Arab Idol."
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The Price of Fame
Title: The Price of Fame
Character: Noor
Released: January 7, 2015
Type: Movie
A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.
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Rio, I Love You
Title: Rio, I Love You
Character: Herself (segment "O Milagre")
Released: September 12, 2014
Type: Movie
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrating the distinctive qualities and character of that location. The film serves to bridge gaps between cultures, educating and entertaining the audience, while celebrating unique and universal expressions of love.
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Mea Culpa
Title: Mea Culpa
Character: Alice
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Franck and Simon are both good cops. They work as partners. But their lives take a tailspin when Simon, driving drunk, causes a tragic car wreck. A few years later, out of the police, he is forced to take matters into his own hands when his family is in danger.
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Rock the Casbah
Title: Rock the Casbah
Character: Miriam
Released: September 11, 2013
Type: Movie
The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.
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Where Do We Go Now?
Title: Where Do We Go Now?
Character: Amale
Released: September 14, 2011
Type: Movie
On a remote, isolated, unnamed Lebanese village inhabited by both Muslims and Christians. The village is surrounded by land mines and only reachable by a small bridge. As civil strife engulfed the country, the women in the village learn of this fact and try, by various means and to varying success, to keep their men in the dark, sabotaging the village radio, then destroying the village TV.
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Stray Bullet
Title: Stray Bullet
Character: Noha
Released: September 2, 2010
Type: Movie
In 1976 Beirut, after a rendezvous with her old flame, soon-to-wed Noha witnesses a violent incident and changes course on a path to self-realization.
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The Father and the Foreigner
Title: The Father and the Foreigner
Character: Zaira
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Caramel
Title: Caramel
Character: Layale
Released: August 9, 2007
Type: Movie
In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes, fears and expectations.
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Bosta
Title: Bosta
Character: Alia
Released: September 24, 2005
Type: Movie
After 15 years in France, Kamal returns to his native Beirut and reassembles his dance crew, striving to modernize traditional Dabke routines.
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The Seventh Dog
Title: The Seventh Dog
Released: March 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Soraya is a French/Palestinian living in New York. Soraya and her Boyfriend Yusif are reported to the office of Homeland Securty by the "super" of Soraya's building after one of her 7 dogs is hit by a car due to Yusif's carelessness.
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Ashes
Title: Ashes
Released: August 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Nabil returns to Beirut with the ashes of his father who died abroad. He tries to overcome his bereavement while his family insists on respecting rites and customs by burying a non-existent corpse.
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Non Métrage Libanais
Title: Non Métrage Libanais
Character: Nina
Released: March 1, 2003
Type: Movie
No description provided.
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The Sand Castle
Title: The Sand Castle
Character: Yasmine
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A family of four is stuck in an idyllic island that hides a shocking reality.