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...

Two elderly friends engage in a tense backgammon game, where decades of unspoken truths are confronted.

After a mysterious event, Adam’s house falls apart, trapping him in his past and thoughts. To escape, he must confront the chaos in his mind.

In the Lebanese wintery wilderness, a mini-van arrives. Two men get off the van into the cold forest and set off on their quest. The tall trees and...

Based on a research project “Master-Planning in Lebanon: Manufacturing Landscapes of Inequality” by Public Works Studio, the film looks...

A famed Hollywood actress from Lebanon walks viewers through the pivotal steps she took to achieve international success in her career, until she is...

As mold spreads through the city of Beirut, a woman faced with an auto-immune syndrome questions her ambivalent relationship with her body,...

On a sunny day, 11-year-old Firas resists his father’s gender-based expectations during a bird-hunting trip in the Lebanese mountainside

This documentary tells the story of Ibrahim Mokdad, a queer Lebanese refugee who finds himself in Germany after years of violence in his home...

In July 1982, the Israeli army besieged Beirut. Four days earlier, Jocelyne Saab sees her house burn and 150 years of family existence go up in...

A glass van roams the streets of Beirut. The van houses a camera that explores the city from behind the glass. Through its journey, it becomes a...

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

What is the time gap between the remains and ruins? What did Ariel Amoil do hours after his safe return with his plane? When the faces lose their...

Julia Boutros in live concert at Platea on 2014.

Living’s not for everyone, hold on to your mother tongue

Shot on Gouraud Street in Gemayzeh and edited by Zaatari in Beirut, Lebanon.

A visually striking meditation on loss and a perceptive political critique, this deeply personal work has two subjects: filmmaker Olga Nakkas' ailing...

Back when sexuality was a "source of life" and free from contemporary prejudices. A short essay film documenting a radical historiography of women's...

Rayane, a Lebanese woman, talks with her one-night-stands and lovers about how, strangely, she has great memories of the 2006 Israeli-Lebanese war.