Country: Lebanon

Direction Nadine Labaki

Cast Zain Al Rafeea · Yordanos Shiferaw · Boluwatife Treasure Bankole · Kawthar Al Haddad

Synopsis A political and contemporary fable, “Capernaum” centers around a child who rebels against the life he’s been imposed and launches a lawsuit.

Direction Mahdi Fleifel

Cast Mahdi Fleifel

Synopsis An intimate, and often humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ein el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive, and illuminating...

Direction Ziad Doueiri

Cast Adel Karam · Kamel El Basha · Christine Choueiri · Camille Salameh

Synopsis In today’s Beirut, an insult blown out of proportions finds Toni, a Lebanese Christian, and Yasser, a Palestinian refugee, in court. From secret wounds to traumatic revelations, the media circus surrounding the case puts Lebanon through a social explosion, forcing...

Direction Ziad Kalthoum

Synopsis In Beirut, Syrian construction workers are building a skyscraper while at the same time their own houses at home are being shelled. The workers are locked in the building site. They are not allowed to leave it after 7 pm....

Direction Ziad Doueiri

Cast Rami Doueiri · Mohammad Chamas · Rola Al Amin · Carmen Loubbos

Synopsis In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is...

Direction Nadine Labaki

Cast Nadine Labaki · Kevin Abboud · Claude Baz Moussawbaa · Julian Farhat

Synopsis Christians and Muslims lived peacefully together for years in this small Lebanese village, but animosities begin to build among the men as a result of slights and misunderstandings. The women of the village conspire to avert sectarian strife though a...

Direction Ziad Doueiri

Cast Ali Suliman · Evgenia Dodina · Reymond Amsalem · Dvir Benedek

Synopsis Amin Jaafari, an Israeli surgeon of Palestinian origin, is completely at home in the society of Tel Aviv. He has a happy marriage, a brilliant career and numerous Jewish friends. When a restaurant suicide bombing kills 19 people and the...

Direction Nadine Labaki

Cast Nadine Labaki · Yasmine Al Masri · Joanna Moukarzel · Gisèle Aouad

Synopsis In Caramel (2007), director Nadine Labaki crafts a warm, poignant tale set in a Beirut beauty salon where five women navigate love, tradition, and self-discovery. The salon, named after the sweet wax used for hair removal, becomes a sanctuary for...

Direction Jimmy Keyrouz

Cast Tarek Yaacoub · Julian Farhat

Synopsis In a war-ravaged Middle Eastern neighborhood, a musician struggles to rebuild his piano after it is destroyed by terrorists.

Direction Abbas Fahdel

Cast Michelle Wehbe · Elias Freifer · Mary Alkady · Elias Alkady

Synopsis Yara lives alone with her grandmother in an isolated valley, most of whose inhabitants have died or emigrated abroad. One day,Yara meets a young stranger.

Direction Mounia Akl

Cast Nadine Labaki · Yumna Marwan · Saleh Bakri · Nadia Chancel

Synopsis A couple decide to leave the toxic pollution of their home city of Beirut, hoping to build a utopian existence in a pristine home in the mountains.

Direction Philippe Aractingi

Cast Nada Abou Farhat · Georges Khabbaz · Rawia Elchab · Bshara Atallah

Synopsis In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi cab driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son....

Direction Rawan Rahim

Synopsis Lilou is extremely sensitive and curious, but also crippled by an unbearable shyness. She receives the power to see into the past of people, and that will force her out of her introversion.

Direction Joana Hadjithomas · Khalil Joreige

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Rabih Mroue

Direction Randa Chahal Sabag

Cast Flavia Bechara · Maher Bsaibes · Rasma Asmar

Synopsis A young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. She is given in marriage to her cousin on the other side of the border. As Lamia crosses the barbed wire she...

Direction Ely Dagher

Synopsis Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's discovery lures him into the depth of the city. Immersed into a world that is so close yet so isolated from his reality, he eventually loses track and finds...

Direction Amin Dora

Cast Georges Khabbaz · Lara Rain · Emmanuel Khairallah · Camille Salameh

Synopsis In a small neighborhood of a traditional Lebanese coastal town, Leba (Georges Khabbaz), a music instructor, marries his childhood sweetheart Lara. To the dismay of his family, neighbors, and friends, he has a first baby girl and then a second...

Direction Vatche Boulghourjian

Cast Michel Adabachi · Sajed Amer · Abido Bacha · Toufic Barakat

Synopsis Rabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. He sings in a choir and edits Braille documents for an income. His life unravels when he tries to apply for a passport and discovers that his identification...

Direction Joana Hadjithomas · Khalil Joreige

Cast Alexandra Kahwaji · Julia Kassar · Ziad Saad

Synopsis A day in the life of Malek, a young man who suffers from sleep disorders and is obsessed with thoughts of his ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, his overprotective mother struggles with the disappearance of her husband, who was kidnapped more than 15...

Direction Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya

Cast Alain Saadeh · Fouad Yammine · Tarek Yaacoub · Alexandra Kahwaji