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Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elia Suleiman

Members of a family quit the polluted, rubbish-strewn city of Beirut for an idyllic mountain home. However, their dreams of a utopian existence are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nadine Labaki

Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: notebooks, tapes,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Manal Issa

In 1976 Beirut, after a rendezvous with her old flame, soon-to-wed Noha witnesses a violent incident and changes course on a path to self-realization.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nadine Labaki

Beirut, at night. Said begins his first shift as a security guard. His orders are clear: watch a bridge. However, in the heart of “the city...

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Cast: Toni Kanaan

On August 4th, 2020, the catastrophic explosion at the port of Beirut leaves a large part of the Lebanese capital in ruins. In the midst of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mounia Akl

"1982" is a life-affirming coming-of-age tale set at an idyllic school in Lebanon’s mountains on the eve of a looming invasion. It unfolds over...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nadine Labaki

July 2006. Another war breaks out in Lebanon. The directors decide to follow a movie star, Catherine Deneuve and a friend, actor and artist Rabih...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Catherine Deneuve

A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is heaving with female clients: a bride-to-be, a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiam Abbass

A quintet is an omnibus feature told from the perspective of five international up and coming filmmakers who are searching to find identity in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jelena Stupljanin

Each morning Beirut awakens to a new murder seemingly committed by a serial killer, with victims found emptied of their blood. At the same time a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carlos Chahine

Rabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. He sings in a choir and edits Braille documents for an income. His life unravels when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barakat Jabbour

Nowadays, Beirut is often deprived of electricity. It is not a one-time accident but a new state. In the national museum, visitors find themselves in...

Genre: Documentary

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After surviving a car crash in the middle of Lebanon's isolated Beqaa Valley, an amnesiac man finds himself held hostage on a local farm that doubles...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carol Abboud

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

Genre: Documentary

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A Certain Nasser is the compelling journey of ninety years old Lebanese filmmaker, Georges Nasser, an idealist who couldn't adapt to his country's...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Georges Nasser

Panoptic explores Lebanon's schizophrenia. Depicting a nation thriving for modernity while ignoring the vices preventing it from achieving its goal,...

Genre: Documentary

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The Sabra and Shatila quarters are part of the Lebanese capital Beirut, which was rocked by a violent explosion in 2020, plunging Lebanon into the...

Genre: Documentary

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In 2011 Tunisia, as the Arab Spring awakens, unemployed graduate Aziz, nicknamed Zizou (Zied Ayadi), travels from his Saharan village to the big city...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zied Ayadi

Susan, a 65 year old impoverished widow living in Beirut, meets Osman, a young Sudanese immigrant worker without papers. They instantly fall in love,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hiam Abbass