2022 film program

Comedy Feature

A State of Agitation

A hyper-active Beiruti filmmaker, is bombarded by an onslaught of overflowing and contrasting ideas. Subsequently,...

Short

Baba

Baba/Dad is an 8 minute doco about the reminiscences of Mohamad Abbas Dirani, a Lebanese-Australian...

Documentary Short

Beirut After 40

August 4, 2020, Beirut was hit by the second biggest non-nuclear explosion in history. Anthony...

Documentary

Beirut, La Vie en Rose

Following the lives of four influential Lebanese Christians, in a politically unstable environment, they symbolise...

Feature Political Thriller

Boy from Heaven

A devout young man, the son of a poor fisherman, accepts a scholarship to attend...

Comedy Drama Feature

C-Section

A European styled Lebanese comedy of errors, a social satire that lightly deals with the...

Short

Clotheslined

A simple clotheline, intricate background voices narrate a small tumultuous segment in the lives of...

Environmental Feature Political

Costa Brava

The Badri family escaped the pollution, garbage-strewn streets and corruption of Beirut for the serene...

Documentary

Hiroshima Beirut

A poignant look into the lives of Beirutis intimately affected by the explosion; the fire-...

Drama Feature

I’m not Lakit

Lakit, an illegitimate, abandoned child, a trying existence under most circumstances but magnified exponentially if...

Drama Feature

Memory Box

Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve,...

Documentary Short

Passion

The Cinema Rivoli was established in 1952, falling into disrepair it closed in 1989....

Comedy Romance Short

Room 16

Siham, a non-verbal motel maid, spends her breaks spying from an attic hiding space and...

Comedy Short

Social Notworking

When a Lebanese expat moves back to Beirut, a Facebook glitch starts unintentionally posting his...

Feature

The Insult

After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian Forces supporter and a Palestinian engineer...

Drama Short

Warsha

One morning, Mohammad, a Syrian labourer, volunteers to operate the tallest and most notorious...

Comedy Drama Feature

Weekend

Apparently based on a true story, Omar and Joanna are in a new and passionate...

Drama Short

Ya Mejana

A film that deals with the Lebanese ‘Mawwal’, traditional songs sometimes described as “The Lebanese...

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