HUSSEIN BAYDOUN

SCENOGRAPHY MENTOR

Hussein Baydoun is a production designer and scenographer based in Beirut.

His work is mostly characterized by an architectural approach, He often uses raw and rough materials such the metal, the concrete, the fiber… that gives his work its industrial aspect.

Hussein has collaborated with many artists in theater such as Issam Bou Khaled, Ahmed El Attar and Sawsan Bou Khaled.

In cinema, he worked with Rashid Masharawi, Abbas Fadhel, Ghassan Salhab, Mai Masri, Robert Guédiguian, Elia Suleiman… He is the production designer of The Insult by Ziad Doueiri nominated in 2018 for the best foreign-language film in the Oscars, and Capharnaüm, Nadine Labaki’s latest film winner of the critic price at the 2018 Cannes festival.

His work has been shown at numerous festivals most notably Cannes festival, Venice film festival, Berlin Festeshpile, Picolo theatro di Milano, the Theatrical Days of Carthage, Europa festival in Lisbon, Das der Welt in Berlin, Avignon festival, World Theatre Festival Shizuoka in Japan