Lebanon Movies

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

Following the destruction of the August 4, 2020 explosion in Beirut, this film examines a material politics of glass embedded in the collective Lebane...

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

Far away from home, and after becoming auditorily impaired with a tinnitus as a result of the Beirut blast of August 4th, Tahara, a Lebanese immigrant...

Fouad, a 60-year-old man, goes to the police station to confess to a crime he committed when he was younger. After a lengthy day of investigation, the...

Adonis is a queer seventy-three-year-old man. He currently lives in the Ashrafieh district of Beirut. He continues to water his numerous plants daily...

On August 4th, 2020, an explosion like no other rocked the picturesque city of Beirut just before sunset. It was declared as the sixth-largest non-nuc...

Rayane, a Lebanese woman, talks with her one-night-stands and lovers about how, strangely, she has great memories of the 2006 Israeli-Lebanese war.

Jobless and stripped of any prospects of a normal life in Lebanon, Wael tries to kill himself on August 4th 2020, not knowing that a few moments later...

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 o...

In this depiction of a modern dystopian metropolis, the filmmaker and friends try to make sense of Beirut in the 30 years since the civil war. Nadim M...

Ramzi spends his time alone at home. He found refuge in his studio, crouching over his piano as if it was his last prayer. It was not the noise of the...

Jean, a freshman student, schedules online meetings with Julia, a recommended coach, to help him open up his worries during his isolation. Unbeknownst...

At the age of 28, Faten is pushed by her family to marry a man she has not chosen. Convinced that this new life could bring her a long-awaited freedom...

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

Unfolding against the backdrop of a turbulent political climate, the finest rappers in the Arab-speaking world gather in Beirut, hoping to be crowned...

Combining music and film, this work is based on archival footage from the 1920s captured in Lebanon by Pathé and Gaumont. “Topology of an Absence” pro...

A family finds itself violently ripped apart from their native home and thrown into the sea, in search of a better future. A forest is raised to the g...

Navigating three types of images, shot in three different periods, the film explores the poetics of haunting through compositions of images that creat...