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Falafel
Act like Falafel Verkäufer
event2007 star_border 4.3
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Everything bad that can happen on the way to a party happens to young Tou on this nighttime trip though Beirut.
Carlos
Act like Michel Moukharbel
event2010 star_border 7
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The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
Talk to Me
Act like Farid
event2022
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Farid, who works abroad, locks himself on the last day of his stay in Beirut in his son Rawad's room, to find what he is hiding there. Separated by a locked door, the dysfunctional dynamic between them intensifies, and the past resurfaces.
Beirut Hotel
Act like Abbas
event2011 star_border 5.2
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One evening, a married young singer Zoha meets the French lawyer Mathieu in a night club in Beirut. Mathieu will become suspected of spying, while Zoha is trying to flee from her husband. Despite these problems, the two will witness a love story for few days mixed with violence and fear.
A Lost Man
Act like Paysan en chef
event2007 star_border 4.3
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Inspired by the photographic travels of Antione d'Agata, Danielle Arbid's worldly drama follows a French photographer who travels the globe to seek out the most extreme experiences imaginable. Thomas is a fearless shutterbug who's always willing to put his life on the line for the sake of a good shot. Upon falling under the spell of an enigmatic old man named Fouad Saleh, the photographer travels to the Far East in hopes of uncovering the secrets of the man who can no longer recall his own past. As the photographer soon finds out, it's often the most innocent endeavors that yield the most profound and transformative results.
The Sea Ahead
Act like Walid (Jana's Uncle)
event2022 star_border 4.3
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A young woman makes her way back home to her parents’ house in the middle of the night leaving a bad experience behind. Haunting pressures to fit back into the family dynamics as well as revealing details of her life abroad weigh heavy on her. Feeling cornered, her anxieties resurface, leading her to find solace in another part of her Beirut life that she had forsaken. A life that is for her as familiar and foreign now as it ever was.
Everyday Is a Holiday
Act like Pick-up driver
event2010 star_border 4.8
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It's Independence Day in Lebanon: three women who've never met before are on the same bus heading to visit a prison situated in a remote area of the country. Traveling through an arid landscape littered with mines and decapitated dreams, the journey transforms into the women's quest for their own independence.
The Gate of the Sun
Act like Dr. Amgad
event2004 star_border 6
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Yousry Nasrallah's powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession, exile, and resistance. The film follows the flight of Younes, his wife Nahila, and those around them, from their village in northern Palestine to a refugee camp in Lebanon. Some vow to continue the struggle, most simply struggle to survive. Unsparingly detailing the impact of the nakba (disaster) on Palestinian life and society and the refugees' often-contentious relationship with their reluctant Lebanese hosts, Gate of the Sun spans generations, mixing personal stories with historical events.
Stable Unstable
Act like Abou Karim
event2014
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In an apartment building in Beirut, on the last day of the year, seven characters start their day by visiting their psychologist as part of the weekly ritual. On that couch in their psychologist's office, they face themselves and their loved ones in trying to define what is most important to them. Each of them, from the patients to the residents of the building, has a different story to share, inner secrets and hidden wishes. All keep to themselves, except for the porter Abou Karim, who extends his presence and allows himself to interfere in the lives of others and in their destinies.
The Mountain
event2011 star_border 5.7
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Night falls over Beirut. Fadi, a forty year old, packs his luggage and sets out to the airport with his friend driving him. He is supposed to leave for a month, but instead of going up the plane, he heads to the arrivals section and rents a car. He takes the highway heading North then continues on a mountainous route. Far from anyone, on a deserted highway, a deviation forces him to quit the main road. A distinct sound coming from far is heard; the sound of a car honk. Fadi gets closer and closer to the sound and sees a wrecked car crashed in a tree alongside the road. A couple lay still inside.
Arzé
Act like Joseph
event2024 star_border 9
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To find her stolen scooter, Arze drags her rebellious son on an adventurous journey across Beirut, navigating the city’s web of sectarianism with wit and courage while revealing to her son a long- overdue family secret.
Broken Keys
Act like Bassam
event2023 star_border 7.1
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In a war-torn Middle Eastern city where music has been banned by Islamic extremists, Karim, a brilliant musician, struggles to rebuild his destroyed piano while trying to escape to Europe.
Sharaf
Act like Dr. Ramzy Yacoub
event2023 star_border 4
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Sharaf may dream of being fabulously rich, but when he ends up in prison after killing a man in defense of his honor, he has to wake up fast. Prison mirrors the outside world, with all its systemic inequality, injustice and corruption––although, even here, Sharaf believes he can make his fortune.
Beirut Hold'em
event2022
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Beirut Hold’em depicts the life of Ziko, a 40-year old ex-con and petty gambler, and his three boyhood friends, in a seedy, lower-middle class district of Beirut. They’re fighting their way into a country on the edge of war and bankruptcy, where instability makes everyday life feel like Russian roulette, and sheer existence is yet another form of gambling.
Around the Pink House
event1999 star_border 6.5
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One of the most popular Lebanese films of the late 1990s, Around the Pink House is a story that explores the changing urban landscape of Beirut after the Civil War. La maison rose (the pink house) is an old mansion in Beirut where the Nawfal family found shelter during the Civil War. Unfortunately for them, their immediate environment is rapidly changing, as many of the old shell-ridden buildings are being torn down and replaced by new construction projects. When Mattar, the owner of the pink house, decides to sell it to make room for a large commercial centre, the residents of the neighbourhood become divided between the shopkeepers and businessmen in favour of a different kind of modernity.
The Valley
Act like Marwan
event2014 star_border 6.3
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After surviving a car crash in the middle of Lebanon's isolated Beqaa Valley, an amnesiac man finds himself held hostage on a local farm that doubles as an illegal drug-production facility.
Canary in a Coal Mine
event2023 star_border 8.5
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While one evening he is guarding his aunt's house in an isolated village in Lebanon, Anis will have to pretend to be a thief to save his life during a burglary.
Sporting Club
Act like Ali
event2013
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Alex turns 60 in an old-fashioned seaside resort. She's waiting for her guests, but they will not come. Ali, the waiter, and Gina, a Russian dancer fleeing her pimp, will offer her a birthday out of the ordinary. Frank, the long-awaited friend, finally appears. Alex will be able to put his plan into action.
West Beirut
Act like Darwiche
event1998 star_border 7.2
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In 1975, the long slog of civil war has recently begun in Beirut. Two friends, Tarek and Omar, suffer during the Lebanese civil war. Conflicts arise when they decide to cross from West to East, crossing the Muslim-Christian line that divides Beirut.
Still Burning
Act like Walid
event2016
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Still Burning tells the unexpected reunion in Paris in June 1998 of André, a Lebanese filmmaker living and working in France, and Walid, the very close friend he has not seen for years. In their youth, in Beirut, during the civil war, they were both possessed by the same artistic vocation: Cinema, but also by the same woman: Amira. Their reunion, all night long, will not fail to awaken their old repressed demons for better or for worse.
State of Agitation
Act like Camel's Owner
event2020
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Living in Beirut, a highly enthusiastic filmmaker is in a state of hyper inspiration characterized by an overfiow of contrasting ideas. As a consequence, his characters will go through compelling and extraordinary circumstances. To clear his mind, he heads north where a screening of his short films is scheduled in a rural public school. A series of encounters along the way will turn his world upside down.
Hell's Gate
(8 ep.)
event2021 star_border 4.5
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Living under an authoritarian regime in 2052 Beirut, a secluded man's life changes when a technical failure brings a fugitive woman to his doorstep.
Till Death
(90 ep.)
event2021 star_border 6.3
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Fed up with his wife’s distancing from him, Hadi goes on a business trip to Turkey where he meets a special woman, an encounter that changes his life forever.
Rain Over Beirut
(30 ep.)
event2021
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When Abdallah and Amani, a Syrian and a Lebanese living in Beirut, fall in love, they don’t expect the various issues they’ll cause their families.
From ... To
(30 ep.)
event2022 star_border 6.5
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A teacher’s life spirals downwards when a murder takes place in his house and his wife goes missing. As the search begins, dark secrets start unraveling.
النسيان
(1 ep.)
event2024
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The events revolve around a couple who live a happy life with their two children until an accident occurs that turns their lives upside down. Their two sons are kidnapped, so they try to search for them to reunite the family again.
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