Pierre is a doctor. He has just returned from Beirut, his head still filled with the images Read More »
Tag Archives: Lebanon
The Kite AKA Le cerf-volant (2003) Randa Chahal Sabag, Flavia Bechara, Maher Bsaibes, Randa Asmar
A young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. Read More »
Phantom Beirut AKA Ashbah Beyrouth (1998) Ghassan Salhab, Aouni Kawas, Darina Al Joundi, Rabih Mroue
Late in the 1980s it seems like the Lebanese conflict will never end. Read More »
The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived AKA Saat el Tahrir Dakkat, Barra ya Isti Mar (1974) Heiny Srour
This film is the one and only testimony shot in the depths of the former Read More »
Freedom Fields (2018) Naziha Arebi
An intimate look at post-revolution Libya through the eyes of an aspiring all-female soccer team Read More »
Insan Hayawan Chay’ (2014) Boudy Sfeir, Issam Al Achkar, Nader Dernaika, Julian Farhat
Three students Ramzi, Sam and Sahar sent by their psychology teacher Nour Read More »
Bitter Bread (2019) Abbas Fahdel
Chronicles of daily life in a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon. Read More »
Hundred Faces for a Single Day AKA Mi’at Wajeh Li Yawm Wahed (1972) Christian Ghazy, Micheline Daou, Madonna Ghazi, Salah Moukhallati
Rejecting all propagandistic or narrative convention Read More »
Leila and the Wolves AKA Leila wa al ziap (1984) Heiny Srour, Rafik Ali Ahmad, Nabila Zeitouni
A film that weaves together re-enactments, archive footage and fairy-tale sequences Read More »
The Ring Seller AKA Biya el-Khawatim (1973) Youssef Chahine, Fairuz, Nasri Shamseddine, Joseph Azar
In a peaceful village, the mayor, seeing that the population is bored with tranquility Read More »
Where To? AKA Ila Ayn (1957) Georges Nasser, Laura Azar, Tannous Dik, Shakib Khouri
A family lives poorly in a village in the Lebanese mountain. Read More »
Yara (2018) Abbas Fahdel, Michelle Wehbe, Elias Freifer, Mary Alkady
Yara lives alone with her grandmother in an isolated valley Read More »
The Message AKA Al-Risâlah (1977) Moustapha Akkad, Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara
This must-see epic depicts the birth of Islam. In the 7th century Mohammed is visited by Angel Gabriel Read More »
Les petites guerres / Little Wars (1982) Maroun Bagdadi, Soraya Khoury, Nabil Ismaïl, Roger Hawa, Drama, War
Lebanon, 1975. How Tahal, an affluent young man becomes a warlord ; how Soraya, the girl he leaves behind, tries to help him in abducting a businessman Read More »
Beyrouth ya Beyrouth / Beirut, Oh Beirut (1975) Maroun Bagdadi, Ezzat El Alaili, Mireille Maalouf, Joseph Bou Nassar, Drama
In the aftermath of the 1967 defeat, four young Lebanese try to figure out their places in a society whose rules seem to have changed. Read More »