Lebanon Movies

Salma and her mom left their village to escape the bombing. As Salma’s swing got burnt out in the bombing, Salma’s mother first concern is to make a new swing to help her sick daughter get better.

A capsule from Chantal Partamian’s "Katsakh" project, experiments on and with film originally published on Instagram. “Katsakh” means vinegar in Armenian, in reference to the vinegar syndrome, “the chemical degradation that occurs with cellulous acetate film”.

Set to the black and white footage of a journey, Chantal Partamian's "Landing "is a short poem about lovers in transit. With longing and patience in equal measure, the film shows fragments of a long-distance relationship, and what it’s like to be queer and exi...

Based on a research project “Master-Planning in Lebanon: Manufacturing Landscapes of Inequality” by Public Works Studio, the film looks into the inevitable result of policies relying on commodifying and financializing the land, a permanent loss on all levels –...

Raed comes out of prison years later to raise his son and decides to leave the crime path, but he faces problems with the gang boss, who wants him to rob a bank, and with his ex-wife, who wants to take his son from him and live with her rich husband, assisted...

Nourhane was a singer and actress, active between the 1940s and the 1960s. In the mid-1960s, she abruptly ended her career. Her granddaughter, May Kassem, uncovers layer after layer of her grandmother's life to uncover the reason for her departure from the sta...

While on a quest for his father’s medicine in Lisbon, a Lebanese filmmaker acquires a secondhand video camera. In the rays of the spring sun, this short film shares the people, words and ideas he encounters on this rather trivial journey set to a relaxing rhyt...

The explosion was instantaneous, but its destructive energy never faded. Energy does not disappear or disappear, but rather moves from one thing to another. dispersed within us; To turn into anger, pain, hope and despair. But every morning, the light screams a...

A woman is informed of the death of her dream and embarks on a journey meandering between her inner and outer reality. An oneiric quest across land and sea, this video poem is an act of exorcism of a past that failed, where places of constant motion become hom...

On the Damascus Road in Lebanon's beautiful Bekaa Valley, an aging man with late-stage Parkinson's takes one last journey.

Elektra, My Love (89 min, 2021) is a kammerspiel-film set in the moody, cavernous ruin of the Piccadilly Theater, Beirut’s extravagant art palace destroyed after the Lebanese Civil War, the film recounts three days in the life of five actresses. The women seek...

Erotic voice messages and secret night meetings connect two women as they try to live out their forbidden love in Beirut.

A Hungarian oral storyteller, and a Lebanese filmmaker—arriving in Budapest from a different era. Each bringing their own stories and entrusting their words to one another rather rhythmically, they weave a layered visual story.

Directed by Karim Bustany and Julio de Lucci.

A chair passed down from a grandmother becomes the thread that ties one generation to the next. Through this inherited object, Seated Roots follows people in Beirut and their relationship with the city they’ve been handed. This creative documentary takes an a...