Maroun Bagdadi (Arabic: مارون بغدادي; January 21, 1950 – December 11, 1993) was a Lebanese film director known for his vivid portrayal of Lebanon's civil war. Bagdadi was internationally the best-known Lebanese filmmaker of his generation. He worked with American producer/director Francis Coppola and made several films in French that became hits in France. Maroun Bagdadi was arguably Lebanon's most prominent filmmaker, one whose work has been seen all over the world. One of his best-known films, Houroub Saghira (Little Wars), was shown at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, drawing this comment from a prominent film critic: "To make a film about Beirut that eschews polemics for more universal, more human issues is an achievement." His first Lebanese production was for television, an educational program called 7½. In 1975, he directed his first feature film, Beyrouth Ya Beyrouth. Koullouna Lil Watan, a 75-minute documentary produced in 1979, won the Jury Honor Prize at the International Leipzig Festival Documentary and Animated Film.
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Maroun Bagdadi was een vooraanstaande Libanese filmregisseur, internationaal bekend als een belangrijke filmische chroniqueur van de Libanese burgeroorlog.
Hij is vooral bekend van zijn geprezen speelfilms zoals Little Wars en Out of Life, die beiden de realiteit van het conflict in Libanon onderzochten.
Zijn film Little Wars werd geselecteerd voor het filmfestival van Cannes in 1982 en Out of Life won de Jury-prijs op het filmfestival van Cannes in 1991.
