Nos guerres imprudentes
Randa Chahal Sabbag
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Remembering Lebanon during its 20 years of war through the experience of the author's mother, sister and brother; Beirut's post-war Trauma throughout the "amnesia of reconstruction". |
Objects of War
Lamia Joreige
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Each person chooses an everyday object from the war years, a Walkman, a jerrycan, a photo, and tells their story through it; an archive of many conflicting versions instead of one official history. |
On Three Posters
Rabih Mroué
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A video reflection on the 2000 performance Three Posters, built on the unedited tape in which resistance fighter Jamal al-Sati recorded three takes of his 1985 'martyr' testimony. |
Panoptic
Rana Eid
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Framed as a letter to her late father, an army general, the sound designer Rana Eid explores the underground spaces of Beirut, detention sites, bunkers and buried layers, and the silence and noise left by the war. |
Perform-Autopsy
Zoukak Theatre Company
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A research-based piece on the unwritten and contested history of the civil war. |
Riding on a Cloud
Rabih Mroué
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Yasser Mroué, shot in the head by a sniper in 1987 and left with aphasia, performs his own story with videos and recordings, on language and representation. |
Sector Zero
Nadim Mishlawi
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A dark meditation on Karantina, the Beirut quarter of quarantine, slums, massacre and abandonment, read as a symptom of Lebanon's unresolved past, with psychoanalyst Chawki Azouri and others. |
Seule avec la Guerre
Danielle Arbid
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Post-war Lebanon, throughout the reconstruction of Beirut; traumatized lives because of the civil conflict - on-site interviews with men who used to be fighters-, the silence due to post-war amnesia, and the collective refusal of the victims to acknowledge and punish those responsible for the war. |
Silence, ça tourne
Chrystèle Khodr, Nadim Deaibes
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Built on the testimony of a Swedish nurse who survived the 1976 siege and massacre of Tel al-Zaatar camp, a Palestinian doctor's log and a reporter's archive; about witnessing and impunity. |
Sleepless Nights (Layali bala noom)
Eliane Raheb
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A former intelligence chief of a Christian militia, Assaad Chaftari, who publicly apologised for his war crimes, is confronted with Maryam Saiidi, a mother still searching for her son Maher, a young communist fighter who disappeared in 1982. The film asks what confession, forgiveness and the 1991 amnesty law mean for victims and perpetrators. |
Someday a Child (Yawman ma walad)
Marie-Rose Osta
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27-minute fiction about an eleven-year-old boy with telekinetic powers living with his elderly uncle in the ruins of the family home in a southern village under constant Israeli overflights. |
Souha: Surviving Hell
Randa Chahal Sabbag
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With a sense of hope for the future - both her own and that of Lebanon-, Souha Beshara shares In this video-documentary, her story about her ten years' imprisonment in the Khiam prison -6 of which were in solitary confinement- for the attempt on the life of Lebanese General Antoine Lahad who was collaborating with the Israeli Army in the South of Lebanon. |
Stop Calling Beirut
Lamia Abi Azar, Omar Abi Azar
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Starting from the death of their brother Ziad in 2012, the Abi Azars revisit childhood memories of the civil war and the Beirut that has been lost. |
Suspended Dreams
Jean Khalil Chamoun, Mai Masri
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"The stories of four people as they attempt to reconstruct their lives after a long devastating civil war: two ex-militia fighters from Beirut, a woman searching for her husband and a playwright from Southern Lebanon." |
Tadmor
Monika Borgmann, Lokman Slim
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Eight Lebanese former political detainees who were held in Syria's Tadmor (Palmyra) prison rebuild the prison in an abandoned Beirut school and re-enact their own torture, playing both prisoners and guards. |
Tales of the Wounded Land
Abbas Fahdel
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A chronicle of a family in Nabatieh during and after the Israeli war on south Lebanon in 2023-2024, as the community tries to rebuild on scorched land. |
Taxi Driver
Elie Khalifeh, Alexandre Monier
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"Tarek is a cab driver in Beirut. When one day a customer wants Tarek to drive him to a loony-bin, the Oisellerie, it is the beginning of an adventure... " |
The Atlas Group (1989-2004)
Walid Raad
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Raad's long-running project presented as an archive of documents, notebooks, photographs and videos about the Lebanese wars of 1975–1990, many attributed to invented authors. It questions how war is recorded, remembered and turned into history. |
The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs
Walid Raad
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Based on false documentaries, this film is an attempt to analyze the problems inherent to all historical, sociological and anthropological representations; particularly those relative to the Lebanese Civil War. |
The Insult (Qadiyya raqam 23)
Ziad Doueiri
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A quarrel over a drainpipe between Tony, a Lebanese Christian, and Yasser, a Palestinian refugee, becomes a national trial that reopens old massacres and the 1991 amnesty. |
The Missing of Lebanon
Dalia Khamissy
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Long-term project with families of the estimated 17,000 people who disappeared during the war, photographing the rooms and belongings they keep and recording their stories. |
The One Man Village (Semaan bil day'ia)
Simon El Habre
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The director's uncle Semaan is the only person to have moved back to Ain al-Halazoun, a mountain village emptied by the war in the 1980s; his daily routine reveals what the war left in the landscape and in people's silence. |
The Sleep of Reason: This Blood Spilled in My Veins
Jalal Toufic
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"The organic dying of a (resurrectable) human is as nothing compared to that of an animal, exemplarily of a bull in a corrida; the only phenomenon that equals in intensity the death of a bull in a corrida or of a cow in a slaughterhouse is the resurrection of a human, Lazarus coming out from the grave. The living woman in T. S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is found settling her pillow to sleep when she encounters the undead. Why are you settling the pillow, why are you so sleepy? What disclosure are you thus trying to elude? “Tell you all,” Lazarus says in Eliot’s poem, and would that “all” not also include himself? Did Lazarus come back to tell himself about death? And did he find himself sleeping then?" |
This Is Not Beirut
Jayce Salloum
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An attempt to make some sense out of 200 hours of "found" film material shot in Lebanon in 1992, highlighting the difficult, often impossible, process of making a film about a constantly reconstructed Lebanon. |
Three Posters (Thalath mulsaqat)
Rabih Mroué, Elias Khoury
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A performance on the unedited video in which a resistance fighter records his martyr testimony three times, questioning martyr videos and posters in Lebanon's political memory. |
To Whom It May Concern
Sabine Sursock
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"Waiting for news of their sons from the war front, two women see in the distance a man in black coming towards their terrace. Will he bring news from the front? . . Whose son is it this time?" |
Tramontane (Rabih)
Vatche Boulghourjian
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A young blind musician discovers, when he applies for a passport, that his identity papers are false, and crosses Lebanon in search of his origins, uncovering war-time silences. |
Unconformities (Discordances)
Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
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Prize-winning installation built from core samples drilled under Beirut, Athens and Paris, reading the city's underground strata as layers of buried history. The jury described the duo's work as an archaeology of memory. |
Under The Rubble
Jean Khalil Chamoun, Mai Masri
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An attempt at telling the real story of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon as it affected Beirut; traumatizing the city and its people. |
Untitled Part I: Everything and Nothing
Jayce Salloum
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"Soha Bechara, a former Lebanese resistance fighter, recently released from 10 years of captivity at the infamous Israeli " El-Khiam" detention centre, in South Lebanon, speaks of her experiences from her cell-like room in Paris." |
Up to the South
Jayce Salloum, Walid Raad
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The Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon and the powerful social, intellectual and popular resistance to this occupation; highlighting conceptions such as the land, culture, and identity in relation to both the East and the West. |
War Generation Beirut
Jean Khalil Chamoun, Mai Masri
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the life experiences of three generations of young people as they struggle to survive in war-torn Beirut. |
Waves '98
Ely Dagher
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In post-war Beirut in 1998, a teenager from the suburbs crosses into a city that is both near and out of reach. Animation and live action combined. |
We Want to Know (Badna na'ref)
Carol Mansour
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High school students interview their parents, grandparents and neighbours about the 1975-1990 war, a history their schools do not teach. |
We Were Communists (Shuyu'iyin kenna)
Maher Abi Samra
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The director and three former comrades from the Communist Party look back at the war they fought, their broken ideals and how they ended up retreating into their sectarian communities. |
What Happened? (Chou sar?)
De Gaulle Eid
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The director returns to Edbel in north Lebanon, where his parents, sister and other relatives were killed in December 1980, and questions family and neighbours, some of whom took part in the killing. |
Wild Flowers, Women of South Lebanon
Jean Khalil Chamoun, Mai Masri
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The poignant stories of women who played a crucial role in fighting the Israeli invasion of South Lebanon. |
Wonder Beirut
Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
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Postcards of pre-war Beirut, still sold after the war, are attributed to a fictional photographer who burns his negatives to match the city's destruction; the second part consists of rolls of film he shot but never developed. A central work on images, latency and post-war memory. |
