Topic: Lebanese Civil War

Direction Denis Villeneuve

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

Synopsis Incendies (2010) follows twins Jeanne and Simon as they unravel their mother Nawal's mysterious past after her death. Tasked with delivering letters to a father they thought was dead and a brother they never knew existed, they journey to the...

Direction Ari Folman

Synopsis Waltz with Bashir (2008) is an animated documentary-style film that follows director Ari Folman's quest to recover his lost memories of the 1982 Lebanon War. Haunted by fragmented nightmares, he interviews fellow veterans to piece together his role in the...

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 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 Samuel Maoz

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

Synopsis 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. The mission gets out of control and turns into a...

Direction Chloé Mazlo

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

Synopsis 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

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 Josef Fares

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

Synopsis 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 away from his family and is forced to make his...

Direction Joana Hadjithomas · Khalil Joreige

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Rabih Mroue

Direction Pierre Dawalibi

Cast Tony Hanna · Hiba El-Kawas

Direction Yariv Mozer

Synopsis 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 neck, next to his rifle. As the days drag by,...

Direction Maroun Bagdadi

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

Synopsis 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, a press photographer deals drugs under the cover of the...

Direction Jocelyn Saab

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

Synopsis 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 persuade him to screen his collection for them. So begins...

Direction Elie Khalife · Alexandre Monnier

Synopsis 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 would like nothing better than their freedom, Tarek finds that...

Direction Jawad Metni

Synopsis 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. Three years later, teams of locally recruited and trained deminers...

Direction Borhane Alaouié

Synopsis 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 subtle humor, the film sketches four highly individual portraits of...

Direction Yael Katzir

Synopsis 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 a month long workshop for young classical musicians from around...

Direction Jocelyn Saab

Cast Etel Adnan

Synopsis 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, according to her parents’ wish. In 1973, she began her...

Direction Ghassan Halwani

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 a refugee camp in Beirut, while 14-year-old Manar resides in...