Danielle Arbid was born in Beirut. Her credits include the shorts Raddem (1998) and Le Passeur (1999), the documentaries Alone with War (2000) and Aux Frontiers (2002), and the fiction features Étrangère (2002), which earned the Golden Leopard at Locarno, In the Battlefields (2004), A Lost Man (2007), Beirut Hotel (2011), and Parisienne (2015).