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Roy Arida

Roy Arida

Directing

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A Lebanese director born in Beirut, he graduated from La Fémis film and television school of PSL Research University, where he studied directing. After graduating in 2011, Roy started working between Paris and Beirut, and equally focusing on feature films and documentaries. In 2012, he co-founded the company STANK Productions in Paris. His feature directorial debut is Under the Concrete (2020), for which he received the Special Jury Prize at the Tripoli Film Festival, and the Saad El Din Wahba Award for Best Arab Film at the Cairo International Film Festival.

Known for

Bird People
The Middle of Nowhere
Bruno Reidal: Confession of a Murderer
La Vie
Ruines
The Last of the Frenchmen

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