Lebanon Movies

What starts off as a trip to attend a funeral in Egypt turns into a full-blown treasure hunt for war veteran Abu Riad and his novice, Abbas.

Audiovisual poetic essay film on the empty streets of Beirut.

Roger, a beloved basketball coach, is on his way to work, proudly carrying a chocolate box announcing the birth of his baby boy. His trip is...

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...

"Filmed on location in war-torn Beirut, this straightforward, partisan documentary is an indictment of right-wing terrorism against the Armenian...

Free Waves is a film about all sorts of waves, sea waves, radio waves, waves of human resistance. The public beach in Beirut is under threat of being...

A Lebanese couple spends a sleepless night, fearing an Israeli airstrike could shatter their glass walls. With children nearby, they face the...

Late in the 1980s it seems like the Lebanese conflict will never end. Khalil returns to Beirut after many years. Ten years earlier, during a battle,...

This documentary offers a window onto the life and work of the iconic artist, Huguette Caland. Caland had an epiphany, leaving everything behind and...

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

Through poetic visual and aural fragmentation, This Dissonance navigates the emotional terrain of exile, colonialism, and resistance. The film weaves...

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

As Lebanon faces a devastating economic crisis, its citizens lose access to electricity, transportation, water, and healthcare. In response, Joa...

Anas, a comic sketch artist in his late twenties, confronts grief for the first time following the loss of a cherished individual. This profound...

A mesh between moving image and material practice underscore a mapping, witnessing, sensing and ethnographic practice through which the governing...

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

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...

An intimate and moving short documentary where a young Franco-Lebanese director has a heartfelt exchange with her mother, Kawssar, as they spend time...

In the Lebanese wintery wilderness, a mini-van arrives. Two men get off the van into the cold forest and set off on their quest. The tall trees and...