Lebanon Movies

Beyrouth, spring 2020. Is the uprising in Lebanon merely on hold?

Opening with the harrowing 2000 press footage of Palestinian boy Mohamad al-Durra’s death in his father’s arms, Eliane Raheb’s film...

The King of Petra goes to fight the Romans and leaves his wife, Queen Shakila, to assume the duties of government in his absence, and his only...

The film follows a young adult who struggles with his sexual identity. His inner conflict reaches a peak when he attends a party with his mysterious...

Toufic, a widower in his ‘80s, answers the phone to be told of yet another friend who has died. He is lost in mournful contemplation when a...

Jal el Bahr is a personal essai that retraces the history of a 1960’s domain in the South of Lebanon and the family it belongs to. Between...

Back when sexuality was a "source of life" and free from contemporary prejudices. A short essay film documenting a radical historiography of women's...

Facing their imminent separation, Elias and Christiane dive into their memories for one final goodbye

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

When the Beirut explosion occurred, my first thought was that of relief that my grandmother had passed a year and some before. The best hours to sit...

The play takes place in the village of Mays Al-Reem, which Zayoun (Fayruz) arrives on her way to Kazaa Kahlon to attend the wedding of her cousin,...

Yes, you have to scream louder.

Warm-hearted idealist Nino and wounded cynic Yasmina are star-crossed lovers living in Beirut. But as conflict continues to dominate their lives,...

After a big battle with cancer, Carine has only one solution to keep her life: organ donation. In a country where everyone is born a donor,...

Shot in Beirut and released during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the film both portrayed the brutality of the siege and the indiscriminate...

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 lingering intrinsic sorrow igniting embers of longing, ceases to vanish.

A woman, alone in bed at night, starts having weird convulsions after a mysterious phone message. A green stain of mold starts growing on the wall in...

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