Nadine Naous

Nadine Naous was born in Beirut to a Palestinian mother and Lebanese father.

She began her artistic career with video, super-8 and photo installations.

She has written and directed four films that have been shown and won awards at various international festivals: Chacun sa Palestine, Clichés, Home Sweet Home, Au Kiosque Citoyens!

Navigating between Beirut and Paris, fiction and documentary, she collaborates on various feature film projects as a scriptwriter, dialogue adaptor and actress.

Soudan souviens-toi by Hind Meddeb, Bye Bye Tibériade by Lina Soualem, Sous le ciel d'Alice by Chloé Mazlo, Une famille Syrienne by Philippe Van leuw, Héritage by Hiam Abbass...

In 2018, she created Acting workshops at La Maison des Femmes de Saint Denis. These workshops with women victims of violence will give rise to hybrid projects in collaboration with different artists: video-art, performances, readings.  

In 2022, with First Sight films, she co-produced Rakan Mayassi's latest short film, The key.

Her current research focuses on the relationship between the intimate and the political. Scripwriter and director Nadine Naous was born in Lebanon. After studying film and literature, she was the author of installations that mix super-8 film, video, photos and audio pieces. Her first documentary, ‘My Palestine’ (2007) was broadcast on ARTE and shown in numerous prestigious festivals around the world. ‘Clichés’ (2010), her first short fiction film, was co-produced by ARTE and has shown at festivals internationally. Naous also worked as a scriptwriter with Hiam Abbass on ‘Inheritance’ (2012).