There isn’t a filmmaker out there quite like Danielle Arbid. The French-Lebanese director has crafted films about war, family, isolation, and the perils of love — love that is often expressed through graphic eroticism. Notably, her 2007 film A Lost Man is to date regarded as the most sexually explicit film ever made by an Arab director. Given that filmmakers from the Arab world are often confined to dancing around sex, this feat is considerable. Indeed, three of Arbid’s films...

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