It was a war that broke out in a matter of hours between brothers, between people from the same family, almost,” she said. Where Do We Go Now? came from a deeply personal place when Labaki was pregnant and extreme sectarian violence broke out in the streets. ![]() The pointed figure all the time…By making this film, I was able to understand these women.” I began to understand there was a huge contradiction between what these women were dreaming of becoming and what they ended up becoming because of social pressure, religious pressure, community pressure and family pressure. “I rarely saw around me women that were completely fulfilled or completely happy. “What drove me in the first place was questions about the women I used to see around me,” she said. It starts, she said, “as a theme, questions that keep coming to me…from a sort of frustration or an anger towards a social injustice that I try to turn into something positive.”Ĭaramel began with her questions about the social situation of women in the Middle East. Real life is always the prime source of Labaki’s films. The film, which follows the struggles of a young boy living in the slums of Lebanon, was also an unlikely box office hit, particularly in China, where it grossed more than $40 million, becoming the most successful Arab-language film of all time in the territory. It premiered at Cannes, where it won the festival’s jury prize in 2018 and an Oscar nomination for Lebanon in the best international feature category. ![]() The latter was Labaki’s international breakthrough. In a wide-ranging talk, Labaki traced her career path, first through directing advertising and music videos - “where I learned my craft” - until she was able to make features: Caramel (2007), Where Do We Go Now? (2011) and Capernaum (2018). Jean Boht, Star of the BBC Sitcom 'Bread,' Dies at 91 “Very early on, I knew I wanted to become a filmmaker, to create stories that can allow me to escape my reality.” “The highlight of my day was the moment we had power so that we could watch a film,” she said, speaking onstage at the Glenn Gould Studio at the CBC headquarters in Toronto. The Hollywood Reporter is the media partner of the TIFF Visionaries series.īorn in a small village in Lebanon in 1974, Labaki grew up during the country’s civil war - “which robbed me of my childhood” - where movies were her only escape. The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off its TIFF Visionaries talks, one-on-one discussions with leading figures in international cinema, with Nadine Labaki, the acclaimed Lebanese director of Caramel, Where Do We Go Now? and Capernaum.
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