Born in Lebanon, Carlos Chahine left his native country in 1975 because of the war. After studying science, he discovered theater and entered the TNS school in Strasbourg, group 23. He went on to work under directors including Matthias Langhoff, Sylviu Purcarete, Alain Françon, etc.

It was thanks to the cinema, as an actor and director, that he can return to his native land. He has written and directed a family trilogy, La route du Nord a film about his father, Chekhov in Beirut, a documentary about theater and mother, and finally Le Fils du joueur, a film about children and the beginning of exile. La nuit du verre d'eau is his first feature film.