Lebanon Movies

Beirut, summer, 2012: Life here seems as normal as this city can provide. Something is bubbling underneath, though. As people go about their normal...

Follows inmates from Roumieh Prison in Lebanon who produce a play about their fellow prisoners who suffer from mental illness and are thus filed...

Yes, you have to scream louder.

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...

Khalil Yahya was born in 1965 in Hebron, Palestine. Forced to leave his country after the Six-Day War in 1967, Khalil traveled across the Arab world,...

A 60-year-old Christian farmer struggles to hold onto the land he has tilled for decades despite mounting tensions in Lebanon's picturesque Akkar...

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

Beirut, civil war. There are checkpoints, arbitrary executions, car bombs, machine guns, handguns, funeral processions, ambushes, hot heads,...

In Beirut, actors audition for a film based on a soldier’s diary written in Jerusalem in 1915. They interpret scenes, reflect on the First...

In 1929, Roger Salardenne wrote Le culte de la nudité based on nudist experiments in Weimar Germany. Accompanied by a troop of completely...

Lebanon's brief flirtation with space travel in the 1960s becomes a poignant metaphor for the Arab world's utopian dreams in this riveting...

Fleeing the war in Syria, a group of women and girls carve out a future that has become a business in the harsh lands of Lebanon.

2023 marked the thirtieth anniversary of Maroun Baghdadi’s sudden and tragic death. Maroun was a Lebanese filmmaker who wrote and directed...

A Hazara film director follows a gravestone maker, a water girl and a man who buried his limb, as their daily lives unfold in a graveyard.

Jude is spending the last days of his summer break with his parents, who are emptying their house in the countryside. He feels distant and detached...

In Clotheslined, the viewer is invited into the intimate chronicle of the lives of Fares, Souad and Mira, a family in modern-day Lebanon as told by...

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...

When the Beirut explosion occurred, my first thought was that of relief that my grandmother had passed a year and some before. The best hours to sit...