Topic: Lebanese Civil War

Direction Denis Villeneuve

Cast Lubna Azabal · Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin · Maxim Gaudette · Rémy Girard

Plot A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey from Canada to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies...

Direction Ari Folman

Plot One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of...

Direction Ziad Doueiri

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

Plot 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...

Direction Ziad Doueiri

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

Plot 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...

Direction Samuel Maoz

Cast Yoav Donat · Itay Tiran · Oshri Cohen · Michael Moshonov

Plot The First Lebanon War, June, 1982. A lone tank and a platoon of paratroopers are dispatched to search a hostile town that has been bombarded by the Israeli Air Force....

Direction Chloé Mazlo

Cast Alba Rohrwacher · Wajdi Mouawad · Isabelle Zighondi · Mariah Tannoury

Plot In the 1950s, Alice leaves her Swiss homeland for Lebanon. There the best years of her life are marred by the threat of war.

Direction Philippe Aractingi

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

Plot 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...

Direction Josef Fares

Cast Imad Creidi · Antoinette Turk · Carmen Loubbos · Elias Gergi

Plot Zozo grows up in Beirut. In spite of the civil war, he leads a normal life with family, friends and school. But one day tragedy strikes and Zozo is torn...

Direction Joana Hadjithomas · Khalil Joreige

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Rabih Mroue

Direction Pierre Dawalibi

Cast Tony Hanna · Hiba El-Kawas

Direction Yariv Mozer

Plot At 28, Yariv Mozer is suddenly drafted as a soldier in the Second Lebanese War between Lebanon and Israel. Instinctively, he grabs his video camera and hangs it around his...

Direction Maroun Bagdadi

Cast Soraya Khoury · Nabil Ismaïl · Roger Hawa · Reda Khoury

Plot Lebanon, 1975. How Tahal, an affluent young man becomes a warlord ; how Soraya, the girl he leaves behind, tries to help him in abducting a businessman ; how Nabil,...

Direction Jocelyn Saab

Cast Emile Accar · Pierre Chamassian · Abou El Abed · Myrna Maakaron

Plot Two young girls of the war generation, Yasmin and Leila, are in search of Beirut. When they meet an elderly film enthusiast with a secret store of Lebanese films, they...

Direction Elie Khalife · Alexandre Monnier

Plot In the Lebanese War, Tarek, a taxi driver who delivers a passenger to an insane asylum called "L'Oisellerie" (aviary) for a brief visit. In this place of peace, whose inmates...

Direction Jawad Metni

Plot In the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel, one million cluster bomb munitions rained down upon the fields, orchards and villages of South Lebanon. An estimated 30% failed to detonate....

Direction Borhane Alaouié

Plot Alaouié presents the stories of four exiles from Beirut. Their only connection is the voice of the narrator and their situation of living in exile in Europe. Told with a...

Direction Yael Katzir

Plot Violins in Wartime is a documentary feature that was shot during the second Lebanon War in 2006. It follows a group of internationally acclaimed conductors who traveled to Israel for...

Direction Jocelyn Saab

Cast Etel Adnan

Plot This is Jocelyn Saab's portrait of her hometown just a few years before the outbreak of the Civil War. Born in 1948 in Beirut, Lebanon, Saab studied economics at university,...

Direction Ghassan Halwani

Plot Ruminate on the thousands who disappeared during the Lebanese Civil War and their still-present absence in the lives of their loved ones.

Direction Mai Masri

Plot In this documentary, two Palestinian girls who both belong to the same cultural center maintain a tight friendship, despite the obstacles imposed by history and circumstance. Mona, 13, lives in...