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By focusing on the experiences of 25-year-old Nadine Zaidan, who was one of the thousands of activists who gathered in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square in the chaotic days immediately following the assassination of Prime Ministe
Beirut seen by 5 artists from different fields and generations: theatre man Jalal Khoury, filmmaker Borhane Alaouié, musician Ahmed Kaabour, photographer Hratch Tokatlian and painter Maya el Hage are filmed by Hady Zacca
It’s October 2019, and four progressive women are documenting the uprising in Beirut. They are journalist Hanine, Iraqi camerawoman Lujain, and Noel and Michelle, two artist sisters whose often-ironic songs have made the
The Beirut port explosion on 4 August 2020 ripped through the city, destroying 70,000 homes and much of the port area and leaving over 300,000 people homeless. Caused by the detonation of vast quantities of ammonium nitr
Anya Kneez is an Arab Drag Queen who left Brooklyn in the Summer of 2012, after 23 years in America, and moved back home to live with her parents in Beirut, Lebanon. Five years later, at 28, Anya still struggles with the
August 4, 2020. A date that shook a country, changed a city and destroyed lives. Zeina was one of them.
Film by Fajr Yacoub
A journey into a foreign country begins with a handheld camera looking through the window of a car. Raindrops in the glass abstract the cityscape separating the inside from the outside. Guided by fragmentation we see mir
A moving and graphic portrait of the people of wartorn Beirut in their day-to-day struggle to survive in the rubble and despair. Filmed shortly after the 1982 massacres at Sabra and Chatila, the film gives a vivid pictur
The War of 33 is an intimate, personal and powerful telling of the story of the 2006 war in Lebanon. A series of letters written by Hanady Salman--a mother living through the war in Beirut--carve a narrative arc through
This film at the most fundamental level, a personal project; i) examining the use and production of images/representations of Lebanon and Beirut both in the West and in Lebanon itself, ii) recording the interactions and
For the first time since the Vietnam War, Bob Hope entertains United States armed service members for his classic USO Christmas show.
Deborah Harse directs this documentary that chronicles the Beirut Marathon Association's heroic efforts to put on its annual road race in late 2006, when Lebanon was still reeling from a military invasion and a high-prof
panoramic digital video, resolution 5760 x 1080, ratio 16:3, looped.
Boys dive, cats moan, an old lady smokes, a guardian of the dead sighs, young people dance. They are the people of a ghost town: Beirut, which exists only in dreams.
A short video diary, recorded just days after the war erupted in 2006. Singing, intermittently drowned out by the sounds of gunfire and sirens outside, gradually gives way to fear. This film is far more than a testimony;
Sealed within a liquid tragedy, how does time pass between an uprising and a catastrophe?
Events, people, phenomena that determined the way of life. That, without which it is impossible to imagine us, is even more difficult to understand. Another year - another series. What do you remember about the second ha