Roy Arida is a director and producer. Born in Beirut, Roy studied cinema at la Fémis, Paris, in the directing department. Since he graduated, he has been pursuing his work as a director still in between France and Lebanon, with an equal interest for fiction and documentary In 2012, Roy founded STANK, a production house based in Paris. Roy has two films in this year’s Festival – Under the Concrete, which he directed; and Khamsin, which he produced.