Lebanon Movies

A telephone conversation between an expatriate brother and sister tackles the bitterness involved in being uprooted from the olive trees that stood...

Mounir grapples with masculinity and societal expectations. In a surreal exploration of identity and tradition, his attempt to break free leads to a...

A woman lives alone in a hotel room. Dreaming of the city, she gets lost in its intricacies, etching her skin silently, chiseling at the limit of her...

In early September 2011, Leah decided to go to Lebanon to film her grandmother. Two weeks after the end of filming, her grandmother died of...

A short video diary, recorded just days after the war erupted in 2006. Singing, intermittently drowned out by the sounds of gunfire and sirens...

A new devised work combining music and film based on extraordinary archive footage from the 1920s captured in Lebanon by Pathé and Gaumont....

After a twenty year absence, Rawane Nassif returns home in Msaytbeh, Beirut. Msaytbeh, (from the word Mastaba, the elevated place) was home to a...

A letter from Beirut. Spring 2020.

Every year, thousands of Shia Muslims meet in the village of Nabatiyyeh in Lebanon to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, assassinated in 680...

One year in the life of the grand ducal family. What is everyday life like behind closed doors of the grand ducal palace? What tasks do the...

A man, who frequently visits a cruising beach, recalls a traumatic memory by going through his journal and nightmares

I am the all knowing, the deceased. I live among you and have seen the imam Mehdi master of time, may god hasten his arrival I sit with him, he...

Behind the Shield is a reflective and immersive documentary that explores the complex socio-political landscape of Lebanon through the lens of a dash...

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

In the middle of chaotic Beirut, two gay men decide to live openly their sexuality. This is where the dilemma starts; lovers, sex, family, society,...

After Hilton's door had been closed for many years, the light was finally seen when the director decided to send a public invitation to watch his Big...

In Shift, Sherine Raffoul and Moussa Shabandar trace the transformation of a former bird hunter into a passionate conservationist. What emerges is a...

A man and a woman lie in bed after making love. With each passing moment, new emotions surface, shifting the course of their story.

Reem, a domestic abuse hotline operator, has to convince a young caller to report the violence in her house. But their similar family background...

While on a quest for his father’s medicine in Lisbon, a Lebanese filmmaker acquires a secondhand video camera. In the rays of the spring sun,...