Raïa Haïdar

Raïa Haïdar

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Raïa Haïdar

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Zaman Dark
Lebanon on the verge of the abyss. Khattar and Anaïs, two laid-off chemists attempt a unique experiment: to survive by feeding on human flesh. One day, the woman disappears. The man is pulled into a trafficking scheme which entails exporting human meat, and in return, importing high-tech digital sniper weapons…
The Sticky Side of Baklava
Joëlle
The uneventful middle-class life of Lebanese sisters Houwayda and Joëlle spirals into turmoil after Houwayda announces that she is accompanying Pierre, her Québecker husband, on a sabbatical year in France.
It Must Be Heaven
Woman in the park
Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.
Luz, un film de sorcières
Azul
LUZ is an ambulance driver. Her work brings her to discover the inert body of Dorothée. That's when her dreams reveal the identity of the murderer: a malevolent woman who pursues her. There follows a duel between the two women, where the supernatural mixes with lightning.
Rosalie
Jolène
Rosalie's door closes roughly. Her boyfriend Jimmy, a street musician, has just decided to break up with her. For an hour and a half, Rosalie will go through all kind of moods and sink into a destructive madness, while recalling the memorable moments of her story. The film is a deconstruction of the romantic comedy genre and its way of portraying love.
The Other Side of November
Layla (18 ans)
Who would you be today if, a few years ago, you had not chosen the path you took? Another person, in another life. Completely, definitely, irrevocably.
La Permission
At black night in a port of the Mediterranean Sea. For his last evening of permission, Éric, legionary, lets himself be entailed into a costume party.
Everyday Is a Holiday
Tamara
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 Last Man
Each morning Beirut awakens to a new murder seemingly committed by a serial killer, with victims found emptied of their blood. At the same time a doctor, Khalil, begins to experience strange symptoms that destabilise him and transform his life. A connection slowly emerges that seems to link Khalil to these victims. Salhab’s body of films have come to narrate the state of Lebanon – and Beirut in particular – during and after the civil war, and this film is no exception.
Hunger for Communication
In a Beirut apartment, two girls wander around, confronting each other with unspoken words. Mixed-up messages and ambiguous actions take place in an ever-changing place surrounded by abstract and concrete sounds. The two girls break the wall of silence with every human emotions : confusion, desire, violence, appetite, bravery, ecstasy, happiness and separation.