Nadine Labaki，graduated in audiovisual studies from the University of Beirut. In 2004, she embarked to write and develop Caramel, her first feature film, shot two years later and showcased at the Directors' Fortnight in 2007. This joyous, rebellious ode to female camaraderie was distributed worldwide. Nadine Labaki continued to explore the female condition and religious tensions in Where Do We Go Now? which premiered at Un Certain Regard in 2011 and won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival.

In 2008, she received the Insignia of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Ministry of Culture. In 2018, Nadine Labaki was selected in the official Competition of the Cannes Film Festival with her powerfully moving Capernaum, a poignant manifesto on damaged childhood, refugees and the cracks in a society that turns its back on humanity, which sent shockwaves around the Croisette. Nadine Labaki won the Jury Prize of the Cannes Film Festival that year. Nominated for the Baftas, the Golden Globes, the French Césars and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Capernaum made its Lebanese director the first woman from the Arabic-speaking world to be nominated in this category. In 2019, she was the president of the Un Certain Regard jury at Cannes Film Festival.