Riad
매일 총성이 울리는 전쟁터가 되어 버린 시리아의 세카. 음악마저 금지된 혼란 속 피아니스트 카림은 자신이 가장 아끼는 피아노를 팔아 연주를 마음껏 할 수 있는 오스트리아 빈으로 떠나려 한다. 하지만, 극단주의 무장단체의 총격으로 피아노가 망가져 버리고, 피아노를 고치기 위해선 테러와 폭격을 피해 부품이 남아 있는 도시로 향해야만 하는데...
Joseph
1982년 이스라엘의 레바논 침공 당시, 산골 학교에서의 마지막 날. 11살 위삼은 같은 반 친구 조안나에게 사랑을 고백하려고 한다.
A former Interior Security Forces General of 80 years old, and a former Army doctor of 84, go every day to the same coffee shop, to sip quietly their espresso, and to make crossword puzzles, to avoid loss of memory, Alzheimer's disease.
Zahi
Zahi returns from Germany to Lebanon to receive the corpse of his father who was kidnapped in the Lebanese civil war for 35 years. When he goes to the hospital to collect the corpse to bury it, he discovers that the corpse disappeared again. Zahi finds himself stuck between two worlds where he cannot relate or communicate with either of them while trying to explore the possibility of such a disappearance.
Elie
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.
Adrian
A travel agent who has never travelled is sent on a business trip to Paris, only to find himself confronted by temptations he cannot handle.
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.
Short version of Charaf's feature debut.
Abou Ahmad
Four tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.
After 20 years apart, Samir a former militiaman who was presumed dead, reappears in the life of Omar, his little brother who has become a bodyguard in Beirut. Between drama and comedy, Samir has to come to terms with a country he no longer recognizes.
Armed Man
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.
Gerard
해안 지역의 작은 마을 므샤칼에서 존경 받는 음악 교사 ‘레바’는 학창시절 첫사랑 ‘라라’와의 결혼에 성공하고 눈에 넣어도 아프지 않을 아들 ‘가디’가 탄생한다. 하지만 특수 장애를 안고 태어난 ‘가디’는 매일 밤 발코니에서 괴성에 가까운 노래를 부르다 ‘악마’로 불리기 시작하고, 주민들은 ‘가디’를 내몰기 위한 항의를 시작한다. 아들을 보호 시설로 보낼 수 없는 아빠 ‘레바’는 마을 사람들의 마음을 돌리기 위해 작전을 세운다. 과연 ‘가디’가 마을 사람들을 구원할 천사라는 행복한 거짓말에 성공하고, 무사히 마을에 남을 수 있을까?
Noha is about to marry. Her family is relieved to see her take advantage of this last chance before officially becoming a spinster just like her old sister. All is well in the brave new world and yet, this Sunday in the month of August in the year 1976 in Lebanon, two weeks before the wedding, while the same night his brother organized a dinner in his honor friendly, Noha changes her mind.
Zahi
Zahi returns to Lebanon to arrange a decent funeral of his father who was kidnapped and disappeared during the Lebanese civil war.
