Lebanon Movies

Lebanon, 2019-2023: a chronicle of the uprising, its fading and its end. From collective hope to intimate pain, can cinema resist the irreversible?

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

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

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

The Earth Weavers by Rima Kaddissi celebrates rural Lebanese women as they reclaim traditional knowledge and reconnect with the land. Through...

The two brothers Ghassan and Nabil are wrestling champions. As Ghassan prepares to wed Laila, Nabil dedicates himself to the game, but his love for...

Directed by Karim Bustany and Julio de Lucci.

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...

Elektra, My Love (89 min, 2021) is a kammerspiel-film set in the moody, cavernous ruin of the Piccadilly Theater, Beirut’s extravagant art...

The Lebanese filmmaker makes several trips from Germany back to her home city of Beirut over the course of the three years following the onset of a...

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...

Camille is a composer going back to his homeland Lebanon to write a song about his country. Raya is looking for her lost son. They meet, fall in...

Julia Boutros in live concert at Tyre on 2018.

the devil firework

15 years later, Jad faces a self-confrontation and blames himself for not being able to protect it, from the recurring sexual abuse by a family...

Paul and Anna live together in a remote, small house surrounded by woods. A place out of time. Yet, as the place progressively crumbles down, and the...

Abstract images and written text are the two components of this testimony of domestic violence, physical and psychological, that shaped the...

Julia Boutros in live concert at Platea on 2014.