Lebanon Movies

The Root of the Olive Tree tells the story of five Palestinians living far from their homeland who recount their experiences in the face of the...

After a twenty year absence, Rawane Nassif returns home in Msaytbeh, Beirut. Msaytbeh, (from the word Mastaba, the elevated place) was home to a...

The only beautiful daughter of Captain Fouad dies by a gang, so he decides to take revenge on the daughter's killers out of his work, and out of...

Alain and Mira, a couple that has been together for five years, decide to have a heart-to-heart about life. They plunge into a thought-provoking...

In Clotheslined, the viewer is invited into the intimate chronicle of the lives of Fares, Souad and Mira, a family in modern-day Lebanon as told by...

After September 11th, an Iraqi filmmaker living in the west spends her days at home, questioning her own life choices and sense of belonging in a...

History is to be told, and its stories unfold into a territory, where the archeology of times owes its survival to fiction.

A capsule from Chantal Partamian’s "Katsakh" project, experiments on and with film originally published on Instagram. “Katsakh”...

Julia Boutros in live concert at Platea on 2014.

The artist, filmmaker, and archivist Alaa Mansour lives between Marseille and Beirut, and her work focuses on the history of violence and the power...

Abjad Ḥawaz takes its name from the ancient ordering of the Arabic alphabet. Through the body of Salma Zahore, each letter is danced and...

Along the Water is a poetic and reflective journey tracing a stream of water in reverse—from the Mediterranean Sea to the summit of Qornet el...

The Earth Weavers by Rima Kaddissi celebrates rural Lebanese women as they reclaim traditional knowledge and reconnect with the land. Through...

A man, who frequently visits a cruising beach, recalls a traumatic memory by going through his journal and nightmares

Tilka is an intimate portrait of five women navigating multiple crises in Lebanon: prolonged economic collapse, a global pandemic and the aftermath...

A drawing on a blackboard serves as an introduction to the complexity of Lebanon’s past; more and more arrows and directions fill the board,...

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