Abdalah
Un pianista trata de escapar de la persecución a la que es sometido en su ciudad de Oriente Medio, donde la música y las modernas maneras de vivir han sido prohibidas por los líderes islamistas extremistas.
Beirut, on an autumn day. The city is on the edge of chaos, but for Maya, Tarek, Yasmina and Rami, aged between 17 and 22 years old, it is just an ordinary day during which they question themselves about sex, love and night time hanging out.
The Beach House is a film about four people from an Arab generation roaming over the ruins of ideologies, causes and virtues of their predecessors. It portrays their intellectual and emotional nonchalance about what is happening around them in their daily lives and relationships. In a house whose architecture is a sixties' experiment in mixing modern and Islamic architecture, a stone and concrete cube suspended over a rocky shore bashed by the waves of the Mediterranean, by famed Iraqi architect Refaat Chaderji, we spend a night with four characters whose non-stop conversations and peculiar actions reflect the void and chaos they are living in.
Hani
Hani returns to his village in Lebanon, which he finds deserted and hostile. In this country, the end of the road for lost souls, Hani must learn to live again.
Elie
Under the imminent threat of Lebanon's garbage crisis, Hala, a wild child inside of a woman, is the only one to refuse evacuation, clinging to whatever remains of home.
The Leader
En un barrio de Oriente Medio devastado por la guerra, un músico lucha para reconstruir su piano después de que éste haya sido destruido por terroristas.
Nader
Three students Ramzi, Sam and Sahar sent by their psychology teacher Nour to a Lebanese village Ain AL Jen to investigate a series of supernatural activities.
Kamal
Faced with an impossible choice, a young man discovers he is dead 8 years earlier to his decided time, that divine mistake can be only corrected by one of two ways.
Rabih
Un cortejo de mujeres vestidas de negro se dirigen al cementerio, bajo un sol abrasador, apretando contra su cuerpo fotos de sus esposos, padres o hijos. Todas comparten el mismo dolor, consecuencia de una guerra funesta e inútil. Al llegar a la entrada del cementerio, el cortejo se divide en dos grupos: uno musulmán y otro cristiano. En un país destrozado por la guerra, estas mujeres muestran la inquebrantable determinación de proteger a sus familias de toda clase de amenaza exterior. Con ingenio, inventando estratagemas esperpénticas, intentarán distraer la atención de los hombres para que olviden el rencor.
Hanna, a melancholic woman, comes to Lebanon after 12 years absence. She wants to find her twin brother who has been kidnapped during the Lebanese civil war.
