Lebanon Movies

"Disaster ruins everything while leaving everything as it is," wrote Maurice Blanchot. "Everything." From the southern districts of Beirut to...

After the death of his close uncle, Ali Akil goes down a path of continuous self-destructive coping mechanisms and indulgence to clear his guilty...

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Lebanon, 2018. War, politics or revolution: these are the choices faced by Georges, Joumana and Perla Joe. Three destinies and a shared desire to...

After her father passes away, Emma visits a therapist for the very first time. When, during the session, a pigeon flies straight into the window,...

If the sun drowns in a sea of mist / And a wave of darkness covers the world / And sight vanishes from every eye and gaze / And the path is lost...

A free adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani's short story "A Hero in a Cell." Kanafani's original text explores the difficulties of constructing a...

Depicts the war against Israeli operations in southern Lebanon in 1973.

The story of Aline, a 17 year old girl, rebelling against her mother, who is also her teacher at school. The mother still treats her daughter like a...

Next Sunday explores the unrealized potential for local residents of Tripoli that is inscribed in the unfinished space of the Rachid Karami...

A visual poetry collage reflecting the director's journey as a queer Arab immigrant, exploring identity, belonging, and the aftermath of the Beirut...

A woman attempts to get through her day-to-day tasks in her apartment, but she keeps getting interrupted by the sound of an approaching ambulance.

As instability closes in, a mother clings to a fragile phone call from her son, whose distant voice becomes her only connection to hope and an...

In Beirut, actors audition for a film based on a soldier’s diary written in Jerusalem in 1915. They interpret scenes, reflect on the First...

"Light" is a short film by Ghina Abboud. A meditation on light, life and emotions through an audio visual diary.

A documentary film about the director's mother and her experience in the Lebanese Civil War and how she is now. The theme of the film is the lack of...

At 14 years old, Zinia discreetly steals the spare keys of her own house, after her parents decide to sell it subsequently to a murder of three...

a father will travel the next day to the Diaspora that he came from, and tomorrow will get separated again from his son, who should stay in Beirut,...