Lebanon Movies

Experimental short movie from 2017

Every year, thousands of Shia Muslims meet in the village of Nabatiyyeh in Lebanon to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, assassinated in 680...

Lebanon is a country hijacked by sects, money, and power. While citizens long for a collective identity to thrive as a community, politicians use the...

Julia Boutros in live concert at Platea on 2014.

Based on the travel diary of the director and his team, Living Icons traces and exposes the ordinary life of the last Christians in Iran.

A visual poetry collage reflecting the director's journey as a queer Arab immigrant, exploring identity, belonging, and the aftermath of the Beirut...

A filmmaker and a patient weave an intimate dialogue on endometriosis, sharing everyday survival strategies for an invisible illness.

In 1956, a young boy named Feris Abou Shaaya teased his crush, Abir, while she was hanging clothes in nature, using a little girl to steal her cloth....

Navigating three types of images, shot in three different periods, the film explores the poetics of haunting through compositions of images that...

Produced by the Palestine Cinema Institute in Beirut and directed by Iraqi filmmaker Samir Nimr, the film is titled after the small village of Kufr...

In Beirut, Jado, a 57-year-old trans woman and a leading figure in the LGBTQIA+ community, has to fight every day just to survive.

Living away from Lebanon and the war happening there, it is hard for the director to live in Belgium, a country at peace. This peace won’t last...

‘Objects of War’ is a series of testimonials on the Lebanese war. Each person chooses an object, ordinary or unusual, which serves as a...

A series of vibrant drawings painted by Palestinian children are brought to life in Blown By the Wind. The montaged still images glimpse at their...

A woman arrives in Lebanon in search of a missing man, whom she met in Iceland a few years ago. Here, the buildings and landscapes still bear the...

Jeem is set in 1983 war-torn Beirut and follows a seven-year-old boy as he wanders through his city during the Lebanese Civil War. With the help of a...

Eat drink and sleep

Zuhdi Al Adawi, a Palestinian artist imprisoned in the occupied territories, uses his art as his means of expression and is helped by the rest of the...

Julia Boutros in live concert at Dbaye Waterfront on 2016.