CARAMEL IN POLAND

Lebanese film "Caramel" directed by Nadine Labaki opened on the 4th January 2008 in all major cities in Poland.
"Caramel" had its world premiere this year at the Cannes Film Festival where it was hugely popular with both critics and audience. The film received public award at the San Sebastian Film Festival and it is Lebanon's official submission to the 80th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language. The film was also released in France where to date it attracted record breaking audience for a film from Lebanon-450.000 viewers. Film Caramel", or "Sukkar Banat" as the movie is titled in Arabic, revolves around the lives of five Lebanese women, each burdened with her own social and moral problems.
"Caramel" chooses to focus on modern social themes, its main setting is a beauty salon in Beirut, where women talk frankly about men, love, marriage and happiness. Their conversations are interspersed with touching and comical scene.
The Director, Nadine Labaki is well known in the Arabic music videos industry, she studied at the Universite Saint- Joseph in Beirut where she made in 1997 her graduation film "11 rue Pasteur", she went on to direct many acclaimed music videos and commercial, as well as acting in several short films. Caramel is her feature directorial debut in which she plays Layale (the owner of the beauty salon in Beirut) leading an ensemble cast that generates enormous warmth and wit onscreem.