Lebanon Movies

When her father becomes suddenly paralyzed, the filmmaker spends four years in between hospitals finding shelter behind her camera away from a family...

In early September 2011, Leah decided to go to Lebanon to film her grandmother. Two weeks after the end of filming, her grandmother died of...

A short documentary that tells the stories of Masrou’ Leila, a Lebanese rock band with an outspoken gay singer, and Sarah Hegazy, an Egyptian...

The lives of two women — Maki, a suicidal Ethiopian migrant worker and Zorro, an out-of-work actress — intersect when a diamond-smuggling...

A filmic dialogue between exiled Syrian writer Samar Yazbek and the filmmaker that tries to ask vital questions about cinema and literature in the...

A collection of interesting and exciting adventures presented by (Abu Salim Al Tabl), as he returns this time with his comedy troupe once again in a...

A Bedouin girl falls in love with a young man from the city, and one of the tribe members wants to marry her. He shoots her father and plots to have...

Lost in Beirut with his grandfather, who is no longer in his right mind, Abboudi, a young Syrian boy, must now act like an adult and set out in...

An icon of the twentieth century the AK-47, or Kalashnikov is the most used and probably the most lethal machine gun ever. In the recent clashes in...

What starts off as a trip to attend a funeral in Egypt turns into a full-blown treasure hunt for war veteran Abu Riad and his novice, Abbas.

Lebanon's brief flirtation with space travel in the 1960s becomes a poignant metaphor for the Arab world's utopian dreams in this riveting...

A free adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani's short story "A Hero in a Cell." Kanafani's original text explores the difficulties of constructing a...

From the music of Lebanese composer Gabriel Yared, Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues crafts a story reminiscent of David Lynch's Blue...

Mahdia, Tunisia. Fatma and her daughters, Najeh and Waffeh, work as “machtat”, traditional musicians who play at wedding ceremonies....

Nawal is involved in a boating accident near an island at sea. She wakes up to find herself in the care of two brothers, Ghassan and Adel. They soon...

In this two-part tour through the streets of Lebanon, a colorful Palestinian cab driver offers offhand insight into the region’s fraught...

A DOCUMENT OF LEBANON'S BATTLES AGAINST ZIONISM AND IMPERIALISM

A deeply depressed and emotionally detached man, burdened by years of unresolved trauma and existential despair, reaches the breaking point in his...

This short video was shot in the urgency of the Israeli war against Lebanon in July 2006. It sheds light on how the Lebanese would go about their...