Ziad Doueiri

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Ziad Doueiri
Born (1963-10-07) October 7, 1963 (age 61)
Beirut, Lebanon
Occupations
  • Film director
  • screenwriter
Years active1990–present

Ziad Doueiri (Arabic : زياد دويري ; born October 7, 1963) [1] [2] is a Lebanese film director. He is known for his award-winning films West Beirut (1998) and The Insult (2017), a film that was nominated at the 90th Academy Awards, representing Lebanon in the Best International Feature Film category.

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Personal life and career

Ziad Doueiri was born in Beirut on October 7, 1963, and grew up there during the Lebanese Civil War, where he shot his personal films with an 8 mm camera. At the age of 20, he left Lebanon during the civil war to go study in the United States, and graduated in 1986 from San Diego State University [3] with a degree in cinema, then worked with Quentin Tarantino as camera assistant [4] then cinematographer for movies such as Jackie Brown , From Dusk Till Dawn , Pulp Fiction , and Reservoir Dogs . [5]

In 1998, Ziad Doueiri wrote and directed his first feature film West Beirut, which received international fame, which starrs his brother Rami Doueiri. The film was followed by Lila Says , which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival.

Doueiri worked between Los Angeles and Beirut until 2011 after which he returned to work from Beirut.

Doueiri directed his film The Attack in 2013, which caused controversy and was banned from showing in Lebanon and most Arab countries (except for Morocco and Dubai) because of the scenes that he filmed in Tel Aviv. Doueiri expressed opposition to boycotts of Israel, and in 2013 defended his decision to shoot a film in Israel featuring Israeli actors. [6] [7] The film is based on the story of Yasmina Khadra, with the same title. Its production costed 1.5 million dollars, with French and Egyptian funding and the Doha Film Institute. In September 2017, he was questioned in Beirut after returning from the Venice Film Festival. [8] [9]

His next film, "Foreign Affairs," in which he was assigned the title role of French actor Gérard Depardieu, is about a retired French diplomat who is secretly sent by the American government to negotiate an agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. His new movies are "Case No. 23" or The Insult.

Douiri resides in Paris. [10]

Filmography

Film nameYearGenreRoleRemarks
West Beirut 1998DramaDirector, writerWon the Prix François Chalais at the Directors' fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival in 1998.
Lila Says 2004DramaDirector, writer
Sleeper Cell 2005Terror seriesDirectorEpisode "Immigrant"
The Attack 2012Drama, political thrillerDirector, writerAn Arab surgeon in Tel Aviv discovers something about his wife after a suicide bombing; based on a novel by Yasmina Khadra [5]
Affaire Étrangère
(English title
Foreign Affairs)
2013Drama, political thrillerDirector, writerFrench thriller that centers on a retired French diplomat (Gérard Depardieu), secretly sent by the Americans to negotiate an Israeli-Palestinian agreement [11]
Baron Noir
(English title
Republican Gangsters)
2016Political dramaDirectorFrench TV Series (8 episodes)
Nominated - ACS Award for Best Director
The Insult 2017DramaDirector, writerNominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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References

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