Lebanon

  • Michel Kammoun – Falafel (2006) (DVD)

    2001-2010DramaLebanonMichel KammounPolitics

    A summer evening in Beirut. The life of Toufic, a young Lebanese man, and his nightly strolls. Between his family, friends and love affairs, he tries to seize every day of his life, through pleasures and entertainment. For him, every second is the most important. Soon he discovers that having a normal life, in this country, is a luxury. 15 years after the war had ended, a volcano is lying dormant on every street corner, like a time-ticking bomb that is ready explode… This night will be pivotal in the life of the young man. It was produced by Elle Kensington.Read More »

  • Nadine Labaki – Et maintenant on va où? AKA Where Do We Go Now? (2011)

    Drama2011-2020ComedyLebanonNadine Labaki

    In an isolated Lebanese village, the mosque and the church stand side by side–but religious tension threatens to boil over, particularly as a series of pranks escalates into ever-increasing hostility. The women of the village, both Christian and Muslim, concoct improbable schemes to defuse the tension, including hiring a troupe of Ukrainian belly dancers. Where Do We Go Now? veers back and forth between wrenching drama and cheerful comedy but somehow maintains a balance. Director-actress Nadine Labaki leads her mostly nonprofessional cast with heart and fervor.Read More »

  • Borhane Alaouié – Lettre d’un temps d’exil AKA Letter from a Time of Exile (1988)

    1981-1990ArthouseBorhane AlaouiéDocumentaryLebanon

    Alaouié presents the stories of four exiles from Beirut. Their only connection is the voice of the narrator and their situation of living in exile in Europe. Told with a subtle humor, the film sketches four highly individual portraits of people, whose lives have taken unexpected turns due to the madness of the Civil War.Read More »

  • Nadine Labaki – Sukkar banat (2007)

    2001-2010ComedyDramaLebanonNadine Labaki

    Plot
    A romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut. Layal (Nadine Labaki) works in a beauty salon in Beirut along with 3 other women. Each one has a problem: Layal has a relationship with a married man, Nisrine (Yasmine Al Masri) who is no more a virgin, will soon be married, Rima (Joanna Moukarzel) is lesbian and Jamal (Gisèle Aouad) is worried about getting old. Rose (Sihame Haddad), a tailor with a shop next to the salon, is an old lady who devoted her life to take care of her older sister, have found her first love.Read More »

  • Georges Hachem – Rsasa taycheh AKA Stray Bullet (2010)

    2001-2010DramaGeorges HachemLebanon

    Stray Bullet AKA Rsasa taycheh (Arabic: رصاصة طايشة‎) is the first long feature film by Lebanese director Georges Hachem. starring Nadine Labaki.

    On the end of summer 1976, in the Northern’s suburb of Beirut, Noha is getting married. Her family is relieved for she’s taking her last chance before she becomes an old maid like her older sister. Everything is going for the best until, on that Sunday, Noha changes her mind about the wedding and decides to meet up with her ex-lover. Events of this day will change the family’s life forever.Read More »

  • Akram Zaatari – Fi haza al-bayt aka In This House (2004)

    2001-2010Akram ZaatariDocumentaryLebanonPolitics

    Synopsis
    His film In This House, 2005 records the search in the garden of a house in southern Lebanon for a letter encased and buried there by a former National Front resistance fighter who had occupied the house in the early 1980s. The split-screen format presents, on one side, the resistance member—now a respected photo-journalist—telling the story of his experience in the house and on the other side, the digging up of the garden and the eventual discovery of the canister containing the letter. The running table of text that accompanies the unfolding narrative identifies the owners of the house and a host of security agents who oversee the operation and whose faces, we are told, are not to be filmed. The anxiety about who or what is allowed to be caught on film together with their growing excitement as the letter is unearthed connotes the poignant tension of a country in a constant state of deferral; the dilemma of whether it is better to unpack the still unresolved consequences of events from the past or to simply carry on, and leave them buried.Read More »

  • Jumana Manna – Wild Relatives (2018)

    2011-2020DocumentaryJumana MannaLebanon

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    Wild Relatives follows the matrix of hierarchies and relationships involved in a transaction of seeds between the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen in Svalbard, an island in the Arctic Ocean, and the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon.Read More »

  • Ziad Doueiri – L’insulte AKA The Insult (2017)

    2011-2020DramaLebanonZiad Doueiri

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    After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.Read More »

  • Maroun Bagdadi – Beyrouth ya Beyrouth AKA Beirut, Oh Beirut (1975)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaLebanonMaroun Bagdadi

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    In the aftermath of the 1967 defeat, four young Lebanese try to figure out their places in a society whose rules seem to have changed. It proved to be an extraordinary anticipation of the civil war that would engulf the country while the film was being edited.Read More »

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