Lebanon Movies

Beirut, civil war. There are checkpoints, arbitrary executions, car bombs, machine guns, handguns, funeral processions, ambushes, hot heads,...

Abjad Ḥawaz takes its name from the ancient ordering of the Arabic alphabet. Through the body of Salma Zahore, each letter is danced and...

The film “Peony” is Christine's graduation project. It tells the story of Omar, a young man haunted by the memory of his parents'...

Beirut seen by 5 artists from different fields and generations: theatre man Jalal Khoury, filmmaker Borhane Alaouié, musician Ahmed Kaabour,...

This story isn't about how ten old men came together and got ready to die. This story isn't about how they cry every night reminiscing about their...

A tour inside the mind of a parkour athlete, where a few seconds spent mid air are enough for time to slow to its absolute stillness, the body to...

Through the stories of Assaad Shaftari, a former high-ranking militia officer, and Maryam Saiidi, the mother of a missing communist fighter, the film...

One of Zaatari’s earliest experiments in documentary video, All Is Well on the Border emerged from the filmmaker’s desire to understand...

A drawing on a blackboard serves as an introduction to the complexity of Lebanon’s past; more and more arrows and directions fill the board,...

our beautiful countries are destroyed

In a valley veiled by fog and tribal codes, two sisters walk into the night not as daughters, but as offerings— where blood, memory, and...

The film revolves around the Lebanese civil war, which took place in the seventies of the last century through a group of young men and girls friends...

Lionel Andres Messi

A lawyer, Eid, is hired to represent a brute in a divorce from his wife. The twist is that the wife of the brute is not unknown to Eid, but he can't...

As an important exam draws near, a teenager's day is consumed by social media, television, and endless distractions. When he finally decides to...

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal...

Performance and scripted exchanges are spliced with protest footage from Brooklyn to Beirut to map the potential for transnational solidarity.