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- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsAdel KaramKamel El BashaCamille SalamehAfter an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
- DirectorSam AndraosHassan JaberStarsAntoinette AkikiJoseph AzouryNada Abou FarhatThe issues of extremism and social prejudice through the scope of sexism and gender equality.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsNadine LabakiJoanna MoukarzelGisèle AouadA romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsClaude Baz MoussawbaaNadine LabakiYvonne MaaloufA group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.
- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsRami DoueiriNaamar SahliMohamad ChamasIn April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game. His mother wants to leave; his father refuses. Tarek spends time with May, a Christian, orphaned and living in his building. By accident, Tarek goes to an infamous brothel in the war-torn Olive Quarter, meeting its legendary madam, Oum Walid. He then takes Omar and May there using her underwear as a white flag for safe passage. Family tensions rise. As he comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy.
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsNada Abou FarhatGeorges KhabbazRawia ElchabIn 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.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsLubna AzabalMélissa Désormeaux-PoulinMaxim GaudetteTwins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsZain Al RafeeaYordanos ShiferawBoluwatife Treasure BankoleWhile serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsRodney El HaddadNadine LabakiNada Abou FarhatFifteen 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.
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiStarsEzzat El AlailiMireille MaaloufJoseph Bou NassarBeirut Oh Beirut (1975) follows four young Lebanese after the defeat of Lebanon by Israeli forces in the Six Day War of 1967.
- DirectorGeorges HachemStarsDana AbedBadih Bou ChakraTakla ChamounNoha is about to get married. Her family is relieved to see her take advantage of this last chance before officially becoming a spinster just like her sister. Everything seems to be going well. However, on this special Sunday of August 1976 in Lebanon, on the same evening her elder brother is organizing a dinner in her honor 15 days prior to the wedding, Noha changes her mind.
- DirectorAmin DoraStarsGeorges KhabbazLara RainEmmanuel KhairallahGhadi is different from other kids; could he be an angel? His father Leba, along with his teammates, tricks the town into believing so.
- DirectorOualid MouanessStarsNadine LabakiMohamad DalliRodrigue SleimanDuring the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, an 11-year-old boy tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her while their teachers try to hide their fear of the conflict.
- DirectorRanda Chahal SabagStarsFlavia BecharaMaher BsaibesRanda AsmarA young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. She is given in marriage to her cousin on the other side of the border. As Lamia crosses the barbed wire she also passes from childhood into adulthood, as brutal as our countries and the events that are to follow.
- DirectorMir-Jean Bou ChaayaStarsAlain SaadehFouad YammineWissam FaresIntending to smuggle drugs across the borders, a small-time Lebanese drug-dealer slyly manipulates public opinion with the help of an underrated filmmaker.
- DirectorJoana HadjithomasKhalil JoreigeStarsZiad SaadJulia KassarAlexandra KahwagiA day in the life of Malek, a young man who suffers from sleep disorders and is obsessed with thoughts of his ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, his overprotective mother struggles with the disappearance of her husband, who was kidnapped more than 15 years ago during the civil war.
- DirectorLara SabaStarsAlae HamoudGhida NouriCarole HajjThree protagonists, one city... Coming from different backgrounds, they pass each other but they never meet, though, the effect of one incident will drastically alter the lives of the three of them! Three characters, caught at a moment when their lives fell over, in just a matter of seconds... knocked down by a chain of other's actions/reactions...
- DirectorMazen KhaledStarsCarol AbboudHadi Bou AyashMoustafa FahsA young man's tragic death at Beirut's seaside causes his friends to grapple with loss and to partake in his community's rites and ceremonies, exposing the city's schisms and its society's fault lines.
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiAfter the 1979 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, children try to sing the national anthem as citizens search for hope in the war-torn South.
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiStarsNabil IsmaïlMarcel KhalifeAt every station, between sites filled with poetry and nostalgia for a bygone era, the poet's dashed dreams and idealized vision of her country coincide with the director's own.
- DirectorSophie BoutrosStarsJulia KassarAli El KhalilBassam KousaTherese, the mayor's wife in a Lebanese village, joyfully prepares for an overnight visit of her daughter's suitor and his parents. She excitedly shares the happy news of the engagement with pictures of her beloved brother who was killed by a Syrian bomb 20 years ago and is still bizarrely present in every corner of her house. Only when the long-awaited guests are at her doorstep, she discovers they are Syrian; this engagement will only happen over Therese's dead body!
- DirectorJosef FaresStarsImad CreidiAntoinette TurkElias GergiA Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.
- DirectorMichel KammounStarsElie MitriGabrielle Bou RachedCaroline AzzamEverything bad that can happen on the way to a party happens to young Tou on this nighttime trip through Beirut.
- DirectorWissam SmayraStarsNadine LabakiMona ZakiAdel KaramFollows the story of seven friends who stay together for dinner and decide to play a game that involves them placing their cell phones on the dinner table, and accepting to share every call, text and voice message as it comes.
- DirectorAhmad GhosseinStarsKaram GhosseinFlavia BecharaIssam Bou KhaledLebanon, July 2006. War is raging between Hezbollah and Israel. During a 24h ceasefire, Marwan heads out in search of his father who refused to leave his Southern village and leaves his wife Rana preparing alone their immigration to Canada. Marwan finds no traces of his father and the ceasefire is quickly broken, forcing him to take shelter in Najib's house, his father's friend. Marwan finds himself trapped under the rain of bombs with Najib and a group of elders, friends of his father. Tension rises inside and outside of the house. Suddenly, a group of Israeli soldiers enter the first floor. The next three days sees the situation spiral out of control.
- DirectorEliane RahebThrough the stories of Assaad Shaftari, a former high-ranking militia officer, and Maryam Saiidi, the mother of a missing communist fighter, the film digs into war wounds and poses the question of whether or not redemption and forgiveness are possible.
- DirectorHenri BargesHenri BargèsStarsDarine HamzeAlexandra KahwagiGabriel YammineJenny was made for love and Lana for gambling. In this old-fashioned country, Lebanon, women have no say. Defying everyone and everything they will fight for their freedom whatever the cost.
- DirectorAbbas FahdelStarsMichelle WehbeElias FreiferMary AlkadyYara lives alone with her grandmother in an isolated valley, most of whose inhabitants have died or emigrated abroad. One day,Yara meets a young stranger.
- DirectorDania BdeirStarsHassan AqqoulKhansaKamal SalehAway from everyone's eyes, a Beirut crane operator is able to live out his secret passion and find freedom.
- DirectorRana EidPanoptic explores Lebanon's schizophrenia. Depicting a nation thriving for modernity while ignoring the vices preventing it from achieving its goal, director Rana Eid examines this paradox through sound, iconic monuments and secret hideouts.
- DirectorMounia AklStarsYumna MarwanNadine LabakiSaleh BakriA couple decide to leave the toxic pollution of their home city of Beirut, hoping to build a utopian existence in a pristine home in the mountains.
- DirectorDaniel JosephStarsHiam Abou ChedidHabib AlbertoSahar AssafDriving a cab wasn't his first option, but that's a long story.
- DirectorShady HannaStarsRola BeksmatiJunaid ZeineldineAbboudy MallahThe romp revolves around a dinner party hosted by the young and vicacious Nayla to introduce Fares, the love of her life, to Silvio, her new fiancé.
- DirectorAssad FouladkarStarsDarine HamzeRodrigue SleimanZeinab Hind KhadraFour tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.
- DirectorHannah RamyStarsGabriel BasileHind BazMaguy Bou GhosnA woman who works as a DJ is known to live alone and has her own messy world, but when she meets a teacher who is always serious and well organized, the contradiction between their personalities result in many comedic situations.
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiStarsHippolyte GirardotRafik Ali AhmadHussein SbeityA French photograher is kidnapped and held hostage in a war-torn Beirut. Slowly but surely his integrity and self-respect is broken.
- DirectorElie KhaliféStarsFadi Abi SamraMichele AounStephanie AtalaLiving in Beirut adjacent to a highway ramp, a highly enthusiastic filmmaker is in a state of hyper inspiration characterized by an overflow of contrasting ideas. As a consequence, his characters will go through compelling and extraordinary circumstances. To clear his mind, he heads north where a screening of his short films is scheduled in a rural public school. A series of encounters along the way will turn his world upside down.
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsLuc ArachtingiDiane AractingiPhilippe AractingiWhen 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.
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsNagham AbboudRafik Ali AhmadBshara AtallahDespite 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
- DirectorRoy AridaStarsNathalie JapiotToufic KhreichAlain NajmBeirut, Lebanon 2017. As the country trembles a man decides to attempt to break the world record of depth in deep diving.
- DirectorHassiba FreihaKenton OxleyStarsStephanie AtalaMajdi MachmouchiNader Abd AlhayLina sets out on a quest to uncover a web of family secrets and regain her sanity after being medicated by her pharmaceutical director father.
- DirectorNebal AraqjiStarsDori Al-SamaraniWalid ArakjiToni BaroodWanted is a very human comedy about four old people who run away from a nursing home in the name of love and solidarity.
- DirectorHisham BizriStarsDiamand Abou AbboudFlavia BecharaLisa DebsSet in Beirut's war-ravaged Piccadilly Theater, a writer and actors over three days attempt reviving the ghostly venue with Sophocles' Elektra. The actors witness the writer's vivid dreams where she confronts the actors' lies and contempt.
- DirectorMichel KammounStarsFadi Abi SamraRana AlamuddinSaleh BakriA small-time gambler in his 40s, struggling to rebuild his life after a few years in prison.