Lebanon Movies

This story isn't about how ten old men came together and got ready to die. This story isn't about how they cry every night reminiscing about their past either. This story isn't even about how ten old men decided to rob a bank with zero know-how. It isn't even...

If the sun drowns in a sea of mist / And a wave of darkness covers the world / And sight vanishes from every eye and gaze / And the path is lost among lines and circles / You who wander, who searches, and who understand / Have no guide but the eyes of words. T...

The Lebanese filmmaker makes several trips from Germany back to her home city of Beirut over the course of the three years following the onset of a catastrophic economic collapse in the country in 2019. She tries to make sense of a life enmeshed in crisis, bor...

Produced by the Palestine Cinema Institute in Beirut and directed by Iraqi filmmaker Samir Nimr, the film is titled after the small village of Kufr Shuba in South Lebanon–site of a powerful act of solidarity between the Lebanese people and the Palestinian resi...

‘Objects of War’ is a series of testimonials on the Lebanese war. Each person chooses an object, ordinary or unusual, which serves as a starting point for his / her story. These testimonials while helping to create a collective memory, also show the impossibil...

This documentary tells the story of Ibrahim Mokdad, a queer Lebanese refugee who finds himself in Germany after years of violence in his home country. Following Ibrahim’s narration, we trace his path from prison and hospitals, to refugee camps and a hard-won h...

For over 4 decades now, Beirut has been running under crushing reconstruction policies, its inhabitants witnessing one displacement after the other. The explosion at the port of Beirut in August 2020 is a continuation of corrupt policies and a disastrous...

Oum, a Palestinian grandmother, returns to her hometown of Haifa, where she explores the urban landscape the only way she can: as a digital ghost via Google Streetview.

A woman attempts to get through her day-to-day tasks in her apartment, but she keeps getting interrupted by the sound of an approaching ambulance.

Alain and Mira, a couple that has been together for five years, decide to have a heart-to-heart about life. They plunge into a thought-provoking conversation in which they question their own relationship and its destiny, while simultaneously reflecting on thei...

Tilka is an intimate portrait of five women navigating multiple crises in Lebanon: prolonged economic collapse, a global pandemic and the aftermath of the Beirut port blast. Najah, Tima, Naim, Rania and Fida meet in March 2021 for an artist’s residency in the...

Tensions rise at home when Salma's family braces for a visit from Lebanese relatives. After not having seen them in over 20 years, her mother and teta return to Middle Eastern traditions in order to impress. However, as a high school senior struggling with her...

The story of Aline, a 17 year old girl, rebelling against her mother, who is also her teacher at school. The mother still treats her daughter like a child, which provokes Aline to revolt.

Uninhibited examination of the legacy of Lebanon’s civil war. A reflection on the destinies of comrades who were once bound by ideologies and remain tightly knit friends. The film travels the chimeric and daunting reality of Lebanon's fractured post-war landsc...

In a world shattered by chaos, Rok, a once-passionate sculptor, is turning to stone, paralyzed by the loss of his wife and young daughter. His young son, Ray, who shares the same tragic loss, refuses to surrender.

A documentary filmed in late 2005 that brings the viewer close to the living conditions and unresolved problems for Palestinian refugees in the Lebanese camps. Viewers see the camps with a focus on the issues of health, unemployment, education, and the cultura...

In this two-part tour through the streets of Lebanon, a colorful Palestinian cab driver offers offhand insight into the region’s fraught political and social climate through boisterous serenades and excitable outbursts.

August 4, 2020. A date that shook a country, changed a city and destroyed lives. Zeina was one of them.

A filmic dialogue between exiled Syrian writer Samar Yazbek and the filmmaker that tries to ask vital questions about cinema and literature in the face of war, death and violence. Focusing on the relation between the spoken word, the literary text and the act...

In a valley veiled by fog and tribal codes, two sisters walk into the night not as daughters, but as offerings— where blood, memory, and silence attempt to keep the fire from spreading.