Lebanon Movies

A child explains what a genocide is.

On August 4th, 2020, an explosion like no other rocked the picturesque city of Beirut just before sunset. It was declared as the sixth-largest...

Farès is a farmer in a small remote village of the Lebanese mountains. He works on the land with the help of his wife Salma and their three...

Jana" (2019) is a Lebanese short film that explores the emotional journey of a young woman caught between tradition and self-expression. Through...

Fatima, Layla’s daughter, after documenting the war in South Lebanon, returns to her home to hide within the folds of her mother's book. As...

In the middle of chaotic Beirut, two gay men decide to live openly their sexuality. This is where the dilemma starts; lovers, sex, family, society,...

The story of the film is centered around three women: virgin, lubna and emotions, each of whom had an experience with marriage, where the first wife...

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...

During the early stages of the Lebanese uprising in 2019, Farah Fayyad and Siwar Kraytem installed a mobile screen-printing station at the heart of...

The Root of the Olive Tree tells the story of five Palestinians living far from their homeland who recount their experiences in the face of the...

Elektra, My Love (89 min, 2021) is a kammerspiel-film set in the moody, cavernous ruin of the Piccadilly Theater, Beirut’s extravagant art...

A mesh between moving image and material practice underscore a mapping, witnessing, sensing and ethnographic practice through which the governing...

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,...

Since 1969, the Modca Café on Hamra Street has been synonymous with Beirut. Now, after more than thirty years, it is being demolished. In the...

Raed discovers by chance that the beautiful tree growing in front of his house is one of the invasive trees that threatens the environmental...

Julia Boutros in live concert at Platea on 2014.

A filmmaker and a patient weave an intimate dialogue on endometriosis, sharing everyday survival strategies for an invisible illness.