Roy Arida
Directing
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.
Titles
Bird People
Bruno Reidal: Confession of a Murderer
I See Red People
The Chasm
The Middle of Nowhere
The Last of the Frenchmen
K-Nada
Jesus and Islam
La Vie
Lou Ganiou
Ali, Hachem and Khaled
Deaf
À l'école des pompes funèbres
La Buissonnière
Ba'adana
Ruines
Hôtel Victoria
La chaleur des autres ne réchauffe pas
Les Herbes Folles
Khamsin
Under The Concrete
Le Veilleur