1000 and 1000 Nights
Hady Zaccak
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"Sindbad and Ali Baba help Aladdin retrieve his stolen lamp from an Israeli soldier, in a recount of the Israeli-Arab conflict within an Arabian Nights context." |
A Feeling Greater Than Love (Shu'our akbar min el hob)
Mary Jirmanus Saba
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Revisits the strikes of tobacco and chocolate factory workers in early-1970s Lebanon, a forgotten moment of social struggle that the civil war erased from collective memory. Former activists and archive footage reconstruct it. |
A History Lesson (Dars fi al-tarikh)
Hady Zaccak
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Five ninth-graders in Christian, Muslim and secular schools learn from the same official history textbook, yet disagree on Lebanon's enemies, allies and key dates. The unified history curriculum promised by the Taif Agreement was never implemented. |
A Time to Rest (Hudna)
Myriam El Hajj
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The director films her uncle Riad, a gun-shop owner, and other relatives who fought in a Christian militia; for some of them the war years remain the best of their lives. |
About a War
Daniele Rugo, Abi Weaver
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82-minute documentary built on the testimonies of three former fighters (a Lebanese Forces intelligence officer, a Palestinian fighter and a Communist commander) on why they joined, what they did and the silence that followed. |
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
Cyril Aris
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Weeks after the port explosion, the crew of Costa Brava, Lebanon must decide whether to go on filming in a wrecked city; a film about making art inside a disaster. |
De la séduction
Ghassan Salhab, Nesrine Khodr
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Lebanese women of different generations, all marked by the war, discuss desire, seduction and love; showing a feeling of urgency, of wasted time they need to make up for, and time they must not waste. |
Diaries from Lebanon
Myriam El Hajj
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From the 2018 elections through the 2019 uprising, the pandemic and the port explosion, the film follows civil-war veteran Georges Moufarrej, writer Joumana Haddad and activist Perla Joe Maalouli, three generations disputing how Lebanon's story should be told. |
Do You Love Me
Lana Daher
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Built entirely from seventy years of fiction films, newsreels, TV, home movies, photographs and songs, it assembles a memory of Lebanon in the absence of any national archive. |
Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible
Ghassan Halwani
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An essay-documentary on the thousands of people who disappeared during the civil war. Halwani scrapes away layers of posters on Beirut walls and uses painstaking animation to make the faces of the missing reappear. |
Green Line (Ligne verte)
Sylvie Ballyot
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Fida Bizri, who grew up in wartime Beirut, uses figurines and models to ask former fighters from different sides to explain the war she lived through as a child. |
Hostage of Time
Jean Khalil Chamoun
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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... " |
Introduction to the End of an Argument
Jayce Salloum, Elia Suleiman
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A critique of Western representations of the Middle East, Arab Culture, and the Palestinian people." |
Khiam 2000-2007
Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
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Six former detainees of the Khiam prison, run by Israel and its proxy militia in south Lebanon, talk about survival and the objects they made in captivity; filmed in 2000, then again after the camp was destroyed in the 2006 war. |
Liban Bout à Bout
Olga Nakkas
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"Portrait of several generations of Lebanese women wondering how to rebuild their country and their future in the search for an impossible Lebanese identity." |
Massaker
Monika Borgmann, Lokman Slim, Hermann Theissen
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Six former Lebanese Forces militiamen who took part in the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre describe, faces hidden, what they did and how they were made into killers. A rare film built entirely on perpetrators' testimony. |
Miguel's War
Eliane Raheb
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A gay Lebanese man who has lived in Spain for decades as 'Miguel' returns, with the director, to the childhood traumas, the civil war he fought in and the family that drove him away. Re-enactments, animation and archive are used to take a personal history apart. |
Nightfall (Ma hataf li al-masa')
Mohamed Soueid
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Soueid returns to his diaries and to his former comrades of the Fatah-linked 'Student Squad' during the civil war, looking at what is left of their commitment. |
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Ghassan Salhab
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Medium-length film shot from a car driving through the ruins of Beirut's southern suburbs and South Lebanon during the lull after the November 2024 ceasefire. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
