Caramel France / Lebanon
2007, 96min.
Prod.: Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Script: Nadine Labaki, Rodney El Haddad, Dir.: Nadine Labaki, Dir. of Phot.: Yves Sehnaoui, Compos.: Khaled Mouzannar, Prod. Design: Cynthia Zahar, Sound: Pierre-Yves Lavoué, Edit.: Laure Gardette
Cast: Nadine Labaki, Adel Karam, Yasmine Al Masri, Joanna Moukarzel , Gisèle Aouad, Sihame Haddad , Asiza Semaan, Fatmeh Safa, Ismail Antar, Fadia Stella, Dimitri Staneofski
Caramel revolves around the intersecting lives of five Lebanese women. Layale works in a beauty salon in Beirut along with two other women, Nisrine and Rima. Each one has a problem: Layale is stuck in a dead-end relationship with a married man; Nisrine is no longer a virgin but is set to be married and in the Arab world pre-marital sex is not accepted; Rima is attracted to women; Jamale, a regular customer and wannabe actress, is worried about getting old; Rose, a tailor with a shop next to the salon, is an old woman who had devoted her life to taking care of her mentally unbalanced older sister Lili, but has found her first love. The film paints everyday people with everyday problems.
Production Company
Les Films des Tournelles, Roissy Films
Awards
Youth Award; TCM Audience Award Sebastiane Award (San Sebastian IFF, 2007), Abu Dhabi Black Pearl for Best Actress (Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Al Masri, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisele Aouad, Siham Haddad and Asiza Semaan), Variety Middle East Filmmaker of the Year (Nadine Labaki, Middle East IFF, 2007).
| Labaki, Nadine  Nadine Labaki (born 1974, Lebanon)
Studied media at Saint-Joseph University in Beirut and graduated in 1997. 11 rue Pasteur, her school film project was awarded first prize for short films at Beirut FF and first prize for short films at IMA's Biennale du Cinema arabe in Paris in 1998. She went on to directing commercials and many musical clips for well-known Middle-Eastern entertainers and was awarded several prizes in 2002 and 2003. Caramel is her first feature length film.
Filmography
Caramel (2007).
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