Late in the 1980s it seems like the Lebanese conflict will never end. Read More »
Tag Archives: Lebanon
The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived / 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 »
Hundred Faces for a Single Day / Mi’at Wajeh Li Yawm Wahed (1972) Christian Ghazy, Micheline Daou, Madonna Ghazi, Salah Moukhallati
Rejecting all propagandistic or narrative convention 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 »
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 »