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- DirectorKahlil Dreyfus ZaarourStarsVanisa AyyoobJulia KassarKahlil Dreyfus ZaarourWhen fifteen-year-old Nour is forced to marry Maurice whom she despises, her carefree summer days morph into claustrophobic confinement and household chores. Nour mourns her lost childhood and scattered dreams.
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsLuc ArachtingiDiane AractingiPhilippe AractingiWhen director Philippe Aractingi is forced to leave his motherland for the third time, the realisation dawns on him: his ancestors have been fleeing wars for five generations. Exploring his roots, Aractingi goes back to the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of Israel and the Lebanese Civil War. Experimenting with a radical new film-making style, he interlaces directed scenes and archive images with video-filmed personal diaries, family photos and super 8 reels.
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsRodney El HaddadNadine LabakiNada Abou FarhatFifteen years after a traumatic explosion in his native Beirut, Kamal Maf'ouss returns from France, where he was nationalized and become a composer-choreographer. He reassembles youth friends from his late pa's multicultural school. They pimp a decommissioned school bus to tour the country in preparation of Lebanon's annual festival of the choral dance-song genre Debka. Opinions clash on their modern, cosmopolitan version of a traditional genre, even among their friends and family, while other personal problems complicate matters further.
- DirectorElie KhaliféStarsWalid ArakjiNebal AraqjiTania AssiSingle, Married, Divorced (Yalla 3a2belkon) is a social comedy about four women in their late 30's who have to face the pressure of the society for being singles.
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsNada Abou FarhatGeorges KhabbazRawia ElchabIn the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi cab driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.
- DirectorAssad FouladkarStarsDarine HamzeRodrigue SleimanZeinab Hind KhadraFour tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.
- DirectorElie F. HabibStarsMaguy Bou GhosnCarlos AzarChristian El ZoghbySamar (Maguy Bou Ghosn) and her two brothers are a group of loser bandit outlaws who make their living out of burglaries and armed robberies. One day they find themselves obliged to volunteer in the Civil Defense in order to execute a big robbery, however Samar falls in love with the Chief (Carlos Azar), after which the events take a hilarious yet thrilling route that makes the ending unpredictable and full of suspense.
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsNagham AbboudRafik Ali AhmadBshara AtallahDespite living in a doomed country that hangs by a thread, Joud, a handsome sound engineer meets and falls in love with strong and free-spirited Rana. The young lovers, from completely different social and religious backgrounds, are drawn closer to each other, but a drastic turn of events gets between them and Rana suddenly slips away. As her parents forbid Joud from seeing her, the young man determined to see her again, finds new means of communicating with her by convincing Marwa, her sister, to download his voice messages and secretly play them to Rana
- DirectorElie KhaliféAlexandre MonnierStarsZeina DaccacheDana HalabiAlexandra KahwagiYanoosak tells the story of Rudi, an ordinary Swiss German living in Zurich, who decides one day to reside in Beirut in order to meet his soul mate and establish a small business. Between one heartbreak and another, he manages however to open a small pizzeria. The movie follows this segment of his tragic-comic life while revealing how European culture tries to blend into the oriental culture without fully understanding its codes.
- DirectorZeina DaccacheIn 2012, after a 10 months drama therapy workshop, the women inmates of a Beirut prison presented their play Scheherazade in Baabda inside prison to the audience. This film follows the women during these 10 months. The women tell their stories showing how difficult it is to be a woman in Lebanon, and in general in the Arab world, which is governed by a patriarchal mentality. They convey the voices of all women who are imprisoned by oppressive mentalities which in many cases lead women to crime.
- DirectorZeina DaccacheStarsZeina DaccacheFor 15 months, 45 inmates, some completely illiterate, worked together to present an adaptation of Reginald Rose's famous stage play 12 Angry Men (known worldwide through the Sidney Lumet film starring Henry Fonda). The choice of play, which touches upon the themes of forgiveness, self- development, stigma and hope, was no accident. Daccache added monologues, songs and dance routines created by the prisoners to the original text. A must see, this remarkable documentary includes rehearsals, drama therapy sessions and interviews, revealing the tremendous dignity and despair of the prisoners as well as the charismatic Daccache's boundless energy and patience. Winner, Best Documentary, Audience Award, Dubai Film Festival; Audience Award, Dox Box, Damascus.
- DirectorSophie BoutrosStarsJulia KassarAli El KhalilBassam KousaTherese, the mayor's wife in a Lebanese village, joyfully prepares for an overnight visit of her daughter's suitor and his parents. She excitedly shares the happy news of the engagement with pictures of her beloved brother who was killed by a Syrian bomb 20 years ago and is still bizarrely present in every corner of her house. Only when the long-awaited guests are at her doorstep, she discovers they are Syrian; this engagement will only happen over Therese's dead body!
- DirectorMir-Jean Bou ChaayaStarsAlain SaadehFouad YammineWissam FaresIntending to smuggle drugs across the borders, a small-time Lebanese drug-dealer slyly manipulates public opinion with the help of an underrated filmmaker.
- DirectorHenri BargesHenri BargèsStarsDarine HamzeAlexandra KahwagiGabriel YammineJenny was made for love and Lana for gambling. In this old-fashioned country, Lebanon, women have no say. Defying everyone and everything they will fight for their freedom whatever the cost.
- DirectorVatche BoulghourjianStarsBarakat JabbourJulia KassarToufic BarakatRabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. He sings in a choir and edits Braille documents for an income. His life unravels when he tries to apply for a passport and discovers that his identification card, which he has carried his entire life, is a forgery. Traveling across rural Lebanon in search of a record of his own birth, he meets people on the far fringes of society who tell their own stories, open further questions and give Rabih minor clues about his true identity. Descending into a void at the heart of his existence, Rabih encounters a nation incapable of telling his or its own narrative.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsClaude Baz MoussawbaaNadine LabakiYvonne MaaloufA group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.
- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsRami DoueiriNaamar SahliMohamad ChamasIn April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game. His mother wants to leave; his father refuses. Tarek spends time with May, a Christian, orphaned and living in his building. By accident, Tarek goes to an infamous brothel in the war-torn Olive Quarter, meeting its legendary madam, Oum Walid. He then takes Omar and May there using her underwear as a white flag for safe passage. Family tensions rise. As he comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy.
- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsAli SulimanReymonde AmsellemEvgenia DodinaAn Palestinian surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
- DirectorGeorges HachemStarsDana AbedBadih Bou ChakraTakla ChamounNoha is about to get married. Her family is relieved to see her take advantage of this last chance before officially becoming a spinster just like her sister. Everything seems to be going well. However, on this special Sunday of August 1976 in Lebanon, on the same evening her elder brother is organizing a dinner in her honor 15 days prior to the wedding, Noha changes her mind.
- DirectorDanielle ArbidStarsCharles BerlingDarine HamzeFadi Abi SamraOne evening, a married young singer Zoha meets the French lawyer Mathieu in a night club in Beirut. Mathieu will become suspected of spying, while Zoha is trying to flee from her husband. Despite these problems, the two will witness a love story for few days mixed with violence and fear.
- DirectorDanielle ArbidStarsMarianne FeghaliRawia ElchabLaudi ArbidLina, a young girl in war-torn Beirut, finds an ally and friend in Sihan, her domineering aunt's maid. Sihan shows Lina what her life could be like, but tests the girl's limits when she asks her to help plot her escape from the city.
- DirectorFouad AlaywanStarsYara Abou HaidarOmar ChammaaWissam Fares1975, the residents of a traditional building decide to repaint the facade, but the civil war begins leaving it on hold. Peace announced, Karim returns from US with hope to rescue the building of his childhood threatened by the project of the country's reconstruction.
- DirectorLara SabaStarsAlae HamoudGhida NouriCarole HajjThree protagonists, one city... Coming from different backgrounds, they pass each other but they never meet, though, the effect of one incident will drastically alter the lives of the three of them! Three characters, caught at a moment when their lives fell over, in just a matter of seconds... knocked down by a chain of other's actions/reactions...
- DirectorDanielle ArbidStarsMelvil PoupaudAlexander SiddigDarina Al JoundiUN HOMME PERDU stars Melvil Poupaud as Thomas Koré, a French photographer who travels around the world for his research about extreme experiences. During his travels, he crosses paths with Fouad Saleh - played by British-Sudanese actor Alexander Siddig - a solitary and amnesic man. Saleh disappeared from Beirut 17 years ago and never returned. Intrigued, Koré tries to discover the history of this man, and the experience changes him forever. The history and especially the character of Thomas Koré is strongly inspired by the photographic wanderings of Antoine d'Agata, the set consultant for Danielle Arbid.
- DirectorDanielle ArbidStarsManal IssaVincent LacostePaul HamyThe 90s. Lina, 18, arrives to Paris for her studies. She is looking for what she can't find in her home country Lebanon: a taste of freedom. She experiences different sides of the Parisian jungle and becomes conscious of her own place.
- DirectorShady HannaStarsGhida MajzoubDori Al-SamaraniWalid ArakjiYalla 3a2belkon Chabeb shows us through the eyes of men how hard nowadays it is to have a proper relationship, based on love respect, principles and values.
- DirectorMahmoud HojeijStarsCamille SalamehFadi Abi SamraNada Abou FarhatIn an apartment building in Beirut, on the last day of the year, seven characters start their day by visiting their psychologist as part of the weekly ritual. On that couch in their psychologist's office, they face themselves and their loved ones in trying to define what is most important to them. Each of them, from the patients to the residents of the building, has a different story to share, inner secrets and hidden wishes. All keep to themselves, except for the porter Abou Karim, who extends his presence and allows himself to interfere in the lives of others and in their destinies.
- DirectorAdel SerhanStarsDarine HamzeChristine SolomonTamer AlwerfalliBetroit is a portrayal of three couples as their lives become intertwined with one another. An act of violence disturbs the lives of these intertwined couples in which they each realize how precious love and family can be. Leila (Darine Hamze) tries to escape from her abusive husband (Hassan Farhat) in hopes to flee to Detroit where her sister Rola (Christine Solomon) lives. Lisa (Athena Isabel Lebessis ) is desperately seeking a divorce from her husband Sam (Derek Kelly) in order to pursue a Hollywood career. She claims her husband physically abuses her in order to get Sam deported from the States. Rola (Christine Solomon) who is married to a successful lawyer Joe (Tamer Werfalli) both strives to help their friend Sam (Derek Kelly) and her sister's (Darine Hamze) marriage while struggling to have a baby of her own. Betroit addresses issues of domestic violence, culture, love and relationships between both the American and the Middle Eastern culture. A film which takes place in Beirut and Detroit. Betroit is a feature film written and directed by Adel Serhan. Premiering 12-12-12 in Detroit, Beirut and Dubai.
- DirectorJamal ShoorjeStarsCarmen LebbosYoussef El KhalNisreen TafishThe story of lebanese civilians and resistants in a southern village, Ayta ash Shab, in front of the violations of IDF during July War 2006
- DirectorMaria Abdel KarimNaji BecharaJad BeyrouthyStarsCarol AbboudDiamand Abou AbboudTakla ChamounSix Lebanese women, different ages, await the return of their sons, brothers, husbands or lovers, who have been missing since the Civil War. VOID depicts the events that take place on the eve of the Beirut Parliament Square sit-in, where the women petition to renew the cases of their missing men. The lives of these women revolve around waiting for the men in their lives. A wait filled with uncertainty, and hope.
- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsVahina GiocanteMoa KhouasKarim Ben HaddouTwo inner-city teenagers engage in an obsessive, innocent flirtation fueled by Lila's sexually explicit overtures.
- DirectorJosef FaresStarsImad CreidiAntoinette TurkElias GergiA Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.
- DirectorJosef FaresStarsFares FaresTorkel PeterssonTuva NovotnyRoro, a foreign worker in Swedish parks, loves his girlfriend and wants to marry her, but he is about to marry another girl to prevent her from being sent back to her homeland, Lebanon. Meanwhile, Roro's best friend Måns has serious problems getting an erection.
- DirectorSam AndraosHassan JaberStarsAntoinette AkikiJoseph AzouryNada Abou FarhatThe issues of extremism and social prejudice through the scope of sexism and gender equality.
- DirectorSami KoujanStarsHiam Abou ChedidSamer al AchyCarlos AzarA single credit card grabs the attention of many. Who will get it?
- DirectorSami KoujanStarsCarlos AzarAntoine BalabanBoutros FarahCash Flow 2 continues the life of Mazen some years after the story of Cash Flow 1, he now lives a very rich life, he has everything; money, looks and a huge company. However, Mazen finds himself bored out of his mind, he could do anything he wants but he's miserable and waiting for something exciting to happen. Not knowing his wish would come true, he now faces a new enemy, Tony, that takes everything away from him and Mazen's mission is to get everything back using the help of his new friends and old enemies. During the story, Mazen finds a new love interest that spices up the whole story. Mazen and his friends plan and execute their plan to take down Tony and their plan fails and they are lead to a mind bending twist.
- DirectorElie F. HabibStarsKhitam Al LahhamJamal AwarCarlos AzarIn a remote and poor village, three girls decide to change their destiny. They plan to rub a truck assuming its loaded with cash.. but what they never imagined is found in the truck and this changes their village and own lives forever.
- DirectorElie F. HabibStarsZeina MakkiFouad YammineMohammad ChamasAbdo, an elementary school music teacher who hates kids.. He is only left with one choice to get his grandfather's fortune which is to take care of his 7 years old aunt. How would he deal with his young and strange aunt? Would he succeed in his mission and get the fortune? Let's see..
- DirectorPhilippe AsmarIbrahim MoukarzelGeorge DaherStarsMaguy Bou GhosnBassem MoughniehJanah FakhouryDahab and Rida, two young Lebanese who have been in love for 10 years, are still trying to find a suitable job that will open up new horizons for their future and allow them to start a family. One day luck smiles upon them, giving them the chance to work at presidential palace alongside the president and the first lady.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsNadine LabakiJoanna MoukarzelGisèle AouadA romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.
- DirectorJoe Bou EidStarsJoy KaramChady TinehCarol AbboudIt was the summer of 82, when a priest, about to be ordained, was exhausted by temptations and an arrogant girl felt passionately in love... A sifted memory and a personal history of a narrator who tells with nostalgia and poetry the meeting of his parents until their marriage...
- DirectorLayal M. RajhaStarsTakla ChamounZeina MakkiLorraine KodeihIn modern day Lebanon, in a country divided between those who have too little and those who have too much, three women try to defy their social labeling and incapability.
- DirectorLayal M. RajhaStarsTony AadElham Abi RachedSamer al AchyAfter serving his sentence in Carandiru, one of the world's most vicious prisons, Tarek (Adel Karam) sets out to create a new life for himself in Brazil; A life like any normal person. Yet something within him was not satisfied. An urge to finish what is not yet complete drives him back to Lebanon.
- DirectorMounir MaasriStarsCharbel KamelRobert CremonaCarmen BsaibesA band of students from Beirut's Huvelin Street and their fight against political oppression.
- DirectorHady ZaccakThree families of Palestinian Refugees living in gatherings- Tyre, South of Lebanon and a human rights activist make you discover the difficult life conditions of Palestinian Refugees, their daily life, their aspiration to communicate with their relatives in Germany and their continuous waiting.
- DirectorHady Zaccak60 years of the History of Lebanon seen throughout the story of the Mercedes Ponton (the 180 model) and its German-Lebanese "family" locally called "Marcedes". Marcedes: the story of a car, the story of a family, the story of a country.
- DirectorHady ZaccakStarsKamal JoumblattKamal Joumblatt recounts the major events of his life until his assassination on the 16th of March 1977. The film takes us on a global journey from Lebanon, all the way to India, following the footsteps of Kamal Joumblatt, the Founder of the PSP (Progressive Socialist Party), the Leader, the Rebel, the Reformist, the Thinker, the Poet, the spiritualist... Kamal Joumblatt (1917-1977) becomes the last witness... of his own life.
- DirectorGeorges NasserStarsLaura AzarTannous DikShakib KhouriA family lives poorly in a village in the Lebanese mountain. One day the father abandons his family and leaves for Brazil, considered an Eldorado by a great number of his compatriots. Twenty years pass. The mother raised her children with great difficulty: the elder has a family and the younger one is getting ready to immigrate to Brazil. One day a ragged old man arrives to the village.
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiStarsEzzat El AlailiMireille MaaloufJoseph Bou NassarBeirut Oh Beirut (1975) follows four young Lebanese after the defeat of Lebanon by Israeli forces in the Six Day War of 1967.
- DirectorMaroun Bagdadi
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiStarsYasser ArafatKamal JoumblattA documentary film eulogizing the life of Kamal Jumblat.
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiInterviews with mothers and family members who lost loved ones in the Lebanese conflict with Israel.
- DirectorMaroun Bagdadi
- DirectorMaroun Bagdadi
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiAfter the 1979 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, children try to sing the national anthem as citizens search for hope in the war-torn South.
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiA documentary about a Southern Lebanese community torn apart by war.
- DirectorMaroun Bagdadi
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiStarsNabil IsmaïlMarcel KhalifeAt every station, between sites filled with poetry and nostalgia for a bygone era, the poet's dashed dreams and idealized vision of her country coincide with the director's own.
- DirectorMaroun Bagdadi
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiStarsSoraya KhouryNabil IsmaïlRoger HawaLebanon, 1975. How Tahal, an affluent young man becomes a warlord ; how Soraya, the girl he leaves behind, tries to help him in abducting a businessman ; how Nabil, a press photographer deals drugs under the cover of the civil war and poses as the hero he aspires to be but is not at all...
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiA documentary about the effects of the war that destroyed the Lebanese nation.
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiA documentary about life in Lebanon.
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiStarsBernard GiraudeauMichel PiccoliLaure MarsacReturning home after spending four years in Lebanon, a doctor agrees to kill those responsible for a massacre, one of whom is the lover of his daughter.
- DirectorMaroun Bagdadi
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiStarsHippolyte GirardotRafik Ali AhmadHussein SbeityA French photograher is kidnapped and held hostage in a war-torn Beirut. Slowly but surely his integrity and self-respect is broken.
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiStarsBéatrice DalleThierry FortineauHippolyte GirardotA woman, madly in love, decides to organize the escape of her husband who has received a sentence of 18 years in prison.
- DirectorJihane ChouaibStarsGolshifteh FarahaniMaximilien SewerynFrançois NourHow do you come home when everything has changed? Through hidden memories, ambiguous fantasies and violent sensations. The story of a young woman searching for herself in Lebanon.
- DirectorJihane ChouaibStarsPatric ChihaNada ChouaibKatia JarjouraIn today's Lebanon, Lebanese people living abroad, children of the war, are on a mission to find a 'dreamed country'.
- DirectorCarol MansourThe film describes the lives of five refugees in Lebanon. One of them, Mohammad from Darfur, finds his three brothers and three of his sisters killed, his mother moments away from death. He decides to flee the conflict in Sudan and make his way to Lebanon, where he becomes one of the 9,000 non-Palestinian refugees and asylum seekers being cared for by UNHCR.
- DirectorNadine AsmarStarsAya TibaSam KhouryOmar MikatiDespite their apparent differences, Hala and Bachir will meet and live an adventure that will reveal their innocent love. But a dark fate is awaiting them...
- DirectorJihane ChouaibStarsEmeline BecuweClément van den BerghPatrick BonnelMira is sixteen years old. She lives with her parents and she finds it hard to leave the world of childhood. She is scared of sex and kisses put her off. When her parents leave home for their holidays Mira finds herself alone in the house, which soon becomes her enemy ...
- DirectorJihane ChouaibStarsRenan CarteauxAnne Cressent
- DirectorGhassan SalhabStarsAouni KawasDarina Al JoundiRabih MroueLate in the 1980s it seems like the Lebanese conflict will never end. Khalil returns to Beirut after many years. Ten years earlier, during a battle, he took advantage of the confusion and pretended he was dead.
- DirectorGhassan SalhabStarsCarol AbboudAbla KhouryWalid SadekIn Beirut, the destinies of several thirtysomethings (an architect, a tour guide, a mystic, a radio operator, and an exile returned home) collide.
- DirectorGhassan SalhabStarsCarlos ChahineRaia HaidarFaek HomaissiIn Beirut, a doctor (Carlos Chahine) develops links to the victims of an alleged serial killer, only to start to exhibit disturbing symptoms of his own.
- DirectorGhassan SalhabStarsAouni KawasZahia SalhabIn 1958, in Senegal, land of emigration, Zahia Salhab gave birth to her first child Ghassan. During the same period, Lebanon, their homeland, is driven into a significant local conflict, a preamble to the next civil war.
- DirectorGhassan SalhabStarsFadi Abi SamraNight falls over Beirut. Fadi, a forty year old, packs his luggage and sets out to the airport with his friend driving him. He is supposed to leave for a month, but instead of going up the plane, he heads to the arrivals section and rents a car. He takes the highway heading North then continues on a mountainous route. Far from anyone, on a deserted highway, a deviation forces him to quit the main road. A distinct sound coming from far is heard; the sound of a car honk. Fadi gets closer and closer to the sound and sees a wrecked car crashed in a tree alongside the road. A couple lay still inside. Fadi moves the head of the young man that was resting on the horn and the sound faints away. He watches their bloody faces, hears a hiss coming from the motor and then sees it catch fire. Instinctively, he steps back. Flames eat the car up as Fadi watches in horror. After a while, having continued on his way, he pulls over to the side of the road and sleeps off what he experienced earlier. The next morning, he drives to a hotel in the middle of nowhere where he is expected. He is given a room at the highest level. The food, towels and sheets are waiting for him in the hall. Not a soul will bother him. Fadi will isolate himself in that hotel, literally locking himself in his own room.
- DirectorGhassan SalhabStarsCarol AbboudFadi Abi SamraMounzer BaalbakiAfter surviving a car crash in the middle of Lebanon's isolated Beqaa Valley, an amnesiac man finds himself held hostage on a local farm that doubles as an illegal drug-production facility.
- DirectorGhassan SalhabStarsAdel Nassar
- DirectorAmin DoraStarsGeorges KhabbazLara RainEmmanuel KhairallahGhadi is different from other kids; could he be an angel? His father Leba, along with his teammates, tricks the town into believing so.
- DirectorRana SalemStarsGuy ChartouniRana SalemRana and Guy, a young married couple live in today's city of Beirut. A city forced into modernity and constantly transforming to a rhythm of an unstable environment. Rana suddenly quits her job and falls slowly into a state of lingering. Guy decides they need to leave their home and go on a road-trip that leads them to the mountains. The road becomes one of remembrance and nostalgia. A road that might bring them closer to themselves and ultimately to each other.
- DirectorRaed RafeiRania RafeiStarsNassim ArabiYusri El ChamiRita Hedroj1974. Lebanon is in intellectual, cultural and political ferment. Between March and April, for 37 days, a few students from the American University of Beirut occupy the university's premises to protest against rising tuition fees. 2011: in the midst of the Arab Spring, Rania and Raed Rafei decide to step back and reconsider today's situation in the light of that period which was pregnant with hope, but also a prelude to civil war. Should they revive the past? Recall it? Reconstruct it? That's a crucial question. Here the method is decisive. First, make meticulous research. Then launch the experiment, as the film doesn't only reread past events, but also searches for their echo in today's time. Thus yesterday's protagonists are portrayed by their likely modern counterparts, political actors involved in present struggles. What is democracy today, and how can we fight? A few guidelines, a few emblematic accessories as so many signs (a picture of Che Guevara, a megaphone) and here they go, launching into an experiment based on improvisation, in which a form of theatricality accentuated by the enclosed setting interact with cinema. And in this dialectic of past and present, memories go around as freely as words in present time, just like in the interviews which punctuate the film - yesterday's and today's words getting inextricably mixed.
- DirectorHatem AliStarsMyriam FaresGeorges KhabbazA remake of the famous play "Hala & the King" by Assi & Mansour Rahbani with the famous comedian Duraid Lahham, star singer Myriam Fares, Antoine Kerbaj & Georges Khabbaz.
- DirectorSalim HabrStarsKaren BoustanyJamil ZogheibJamil Zogheib, A successful pediatrician who dedicated his life to medicine, meets a life changing event when he gets diagnosed with ALS disease at the peak of his life in 2008; Discover the story of a hero that will change your life.
- DirectorNasri BraxStarsJoseph Bou NassarJulia KassarRifaat TarabayThis feature documentary explores the life and works of the Lebanese Legendary Theater Director Raymond Gebara, and through this, it documents the history of the Lebanese Theater.
- DirectorMaria Abdel KarimStarsKim BarakaZeina MakkiDreams can only be fulfilled when you let go of your reality-Yet, where are you outside the dream? Nadia, a 20 year old Lebanese girl is chasing a lost dream and desperate to discover what lies beyond the echoed music of her little village. Driven by her sense of adventure and triggered by a short argument with her parents, she leaves her town at dawn to chase her secret dream. "To Beirut." Nadia enters in a surreal musical journey as she realizes that the only link she has between her real and imaginary world is love. Can she ever come back to reality where her hope and love lies? Or does she stay lost in a dream that may be her only way of living?
- DirectorTracy KaramStarsNadine ArabRodrigue SleimanSarah Wakeda coincidence drives Cyril into an art exhibition, where he meets Leila; a meeting that revives in them old memories.
- DirectorMark Anthony KaramStarsSergio KolianaJoseph SassineJawad RizkallahTwo soldiers debate the fate of a prisoner of war.
- DirectorTarek KorkomazStarsTarek KorkomazNicole TohmeMohamad RidaThe journey of a sculptor experimenting his thoughts.
- DirectorWissam CharafStarsRaed YassinRodrigue SleimanSaid SerhanAfter 20 years apart, Samir a former militiaman who was presumed dead, reappears in the life of Omar, his little brother who has become a bodyguard in Beirut. Between drama and comedy, Samir has to come to terms with a country he no longer recognizes.
- DirectorJawad MetniThe men and women of South Lebanon race to clear their land of unexploded cluster munitions. Hundreds of thousands deadly bombs remain after the disastrous 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.
- DirectorMahdi FleifelStarsReda Al-SalehLove in the midst of chaos.
- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsAdel KaramKamel El BashaCamille SalamehAfter an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
- DirectorMarc Abi RachedStarsHussein MaatoukJohanna AndraosKhalil El ZeinAli, a delinquent, is living a chaotic life. His life changes when he meets Souraya, a prostitute threatened by Jacques, a mob guy who is having problems at home. One day, while driving him in his cab to his office, Maroun notices their extreme resemblance. The choices of some and the destinies of others meet and change their existences.
- DirectorJean Khalil ChamounStarsMajdi MachmouchiChristine ChoueiriAmmar Shalak12-year-old Rami moves from South Lebanon to Beirut with his family to escape the Israeli bombings. In the city he befriends a few local children and falls in love with his neighbor Yasmine. However, the horrors of war catch up with him when the civil war erupts. His friend is murdered in cold blood; he gets separated from Yasmine when her family moves away to escape the war; and his father gets kidnapped by the militia. Despite his opposition to violence and warfare, Rami finds himself signing up to be a militia fighter for a different faction, in a bid to find his father. He meets Siham, a young mother whose husband was kidnapped; in spite of the obstacles in her way, she is determined to find her husband. When his fellow militia fighters capture a prisoner and decide to kill him, Rami must make a choice between his humanity and his allegiance to his faction, in a war that has pitted him against his own friend.
- DirectorMai MasriStarsManar FarajMona ZaarouraOffering a rare glimpse into one side of the Middle East conflict, Frontiers of Dreams and Fears explores the lives of a group of Palestinian children growing up in refugee camps. The film focuses on two teenage girls, Mona and Manar. Although they live in refugee camps miles apart, the girls manage to communicate and become friends despite the overwhelming barriers that separate them. The film reveals their lives, dreams, and growing relationship, at first through email, culminating in their dramatic meeting at the fence that separates them at the Lebanese/Israeli border.
- DirectorBassem FayadA family of four generations in their house in the Lebanese mountains. A dog. What does it mean to live in war that constantly changes features and never ends? What does it mean to care for a family in such a situation? Which values do you teach your children? What is society in a civil war? Or the nation?