Philippe Aractingi

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Philippe Aractingi (b. 1964) is a Franco-Lebanese filmmaker.

[edit] Career

Aractingi was born in Beirut where he grew up; he has made more than 40 films, around the world, ranging from reports and documentaries to more personal films. A self taught and a humanist, Philippe Aractingi spent 12 years in France before returning to his native Lebanon, to make Bosta.

Bosta, the country’s first post war musical. Bosta a huge success in Lebanon and all over the Arab world, has been released over twenty countries. It was selected to represent Lebanon at the 2006 Oscars Academy Award. In July 2006, as war once again ravaged his country, Philippe Aractingi reacted, in the heat of the moment, by shooting his second feature film: Under the Bombs.

[edit] Awards

The Dream of the Acrobat Child

• Special Jury Prize at the Days of African and Creole Cinema in Montreal in 1995
• The Grand Jury Prize at the Film Festival of Beirut in 1996

Beirut of Stones and Memories

• Gold Medal of the Jeux de la Francophonie in Paris in 1994

[edit] Filmography

• Under the bombs, 2007
• Bosta (L'autobus), 2005
• The Dream of the Acrobat Child, 1995
• Chemin de femmes, 1994
• Beirut of Stones and Memories, (Beyrouth de pierres et de mémoire) 1993
• Libre vol, 1993
• Through Mothers’ Eyes (Min Ouioun el Oumahat), 1992

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