Lebanon Movies

Essay film about Jaffa's history as told by mainstream films.

On August 4, 2020, an explosion devastated the port of Beirut and part of the city. Two hundred people lost their lives. Five thousand were seriously...

A struggle for life and for love.

Within a documentary framework, the film monitors the cinematic careers of three of the most influential directors of Lebanese cinema, as Christian...

Beirut, summer, 2012: Life here seems as normal as this city can provide. Something is bubbling underneath, though. As people go about their normal...

During the July War of 2006, as warships evacuated foreigners and dual-nationality Lebanese, the “State of Israel” intercepted the...

When her father becomes suddenly paralyzed, the filmmaker spends four years in between hospitals finding shelter behind her camera away from a family...

A short documentary that tells the stories of Masrou’ Leila, a Lebanese rock band with an outspoken gay singer, and Sarah Hegazy, an Egyptian...

The lives of two women — Maki, a suicidal Ethiopian migrant worker and Zorro, an out-of-work actress — intersect when a diamond-smuggling...

A filmic dialogue between exiled Syrian writer Samar Yazbek and the filmmaker that tries to ask vital questions about cinema and literature in the...

After the explosion, only silence remains. The land is cracked, the roots exposed, the air heavy with dust. Red flowers once covered this place. Now...

"Nasr Hamed Abou Zayd is not Godot, and the expectation promised by the title is misleading: this great gentleman is present in almost every shot....

A collection of interesting and exciting adventures presented by (Abu Salim Al Tabl), as he returns this time with his comedy troupe once again in a...

A Bedouin girl falls in love with a young man from the city, and one of the tribe members wants to marry her. He shoots her father and plots to have...

Lost in Beirut with his grandfather, who is no longer in his right mind, Abboudi, a young Syrian boy, must now act like an adult and set out in...

An icon of the twentieth century the AK-47, or Kalashnikov is the most used and probably the most lethal machine gun ever. In the recent clashes in...

Amine, a Palestinian elder, is exiled twice: from land and from labour. Displaced from Haifa to Beirut, then again to Zirku Island, an offshore oil...

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

Lebanon. A young woman visits her conservative family. But she's haunted by the end of a relationship with another woman. Can she keep it together?...