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- In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi cab driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.
- Despite living in a doomed country that hangs by a thread, Joud, a handsome sound engineer meets and falls in love with strong and free-spirited Rana. The young lovers, from completely different social and religious backgrounds, are drawn closer to each other, but a drastic turn of events gets between them and Rana suddenly slips away. As her parents forbid Joud from seeing her, the young man determined to see her again, finds new means of communicating with her by convincing Marwa, her sister, to download his voice messages and secretly play them to Rana
- Fifteen years after a traumatic explosion in his native Beirut, Kamal Maf'ouss returns from France, where he was nationalized and become a composer-choreographer. He reassembles youth friends from his late pa's multicultural school. They pimp a decommissioned school bus to tour the country in preparation of Lebanon's annual festival of the choral dance-song genre Debka. Opinions clash on their modern, cosmopolitan version of a traditional genre, even among their friends and family, while other personal problems complicate matters further.
- When director Philippe Aractingi is forced to leave his motherland for the third time, the realisation dawns on him: his ancestors have been fleeing wars for five generations. Exploring his roots, Aractingi goes back to the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of Israel and the Lebanese Civil War. Experimenting with a radical new film-making style, he interlaces directed scenes and archive images with video-filmed personal diaries, family photos and super 8 reels.
- This film ventures on a sacred journey across South Lebanon, from Qana to Mount Hermon, Tyre and Sidon. Accompanied by three of their professors, nine children follow a dream of the heart: to find the traces of Jesus, who traversed Lebanon two thousand years ago. The film is an invitation to immerse in Lebanon's immense spiritual and archaeological heritage.
- I had always dreamed of flying. In 1989, as I was fleeing the war, I did a paragliding internship in France. At that time, the sport was still in its early stages. When I returned to Lebanon, I realized that flying, or living a few moments of freedom, was not exactly an easy task. This is the story of Lebanon's first paraglider, a black comedy that I share with you in an 18-minute film.
- Just as the Lebanese civil war ends, and as the borders are reopening between the Lebanese, Philippe Aractingi embarks on a journey in order to collect the tales of the Lebanese mothers, forgotten witnesses and actors of the events that tore Lebanon apart.
- The director Philippe Aractingi meets a last with Ghassan Tuéni to collect tales about his life and what he believed in.