A Letter from a Time of War (1984)

Aos doze anos, Zain carrega uma série de responsabilidades: é ele quem cuida de seus irmãos no cortiço em que vive junto com os pais, que estão sempre ausentes graças ao trabalho em uma mercearia. Quando sua irmã de onze é forçada a se casar com um homem mais velho, o menino fica extremamente revoltado e decide deixar a família. Ele passa a viver nas ruas junto aos refugiados e outras crianças que, diferentemente dele, não chegaram lá por conta própria. Sobrevive graças à sua esperteza nas ruas, cuida da refugiada etíope Rahil e seu bebê Yonas. É preso por um crime violento e, enquanto cumpria uma pena de cinco anos, ele processa seus pais por negligência.

Um diplomata americano foge do Líbano em 1972 depois de um trágico acidente em sua casa. Dez anos depois, ele é chamado de volta para a cidade de Beirute para negociar a vida de um amigo que deixou para trás.

Muito petróleo significa muito dinheiro. Muito dinheiro mesmo. E este fato libera um esquema de corrupção que se estende desde Houston, passando por e Washington, até o Oriente Médio. E envolve industriais, príncipes, espiões, políticos, exploradores de petróleo e terroristas em uma teia mortal de ações e reações enganosas. Este thriller de ação inteligente e envolvente exige toda a atenção e os nervos do espectador, em intensidade narrativa que não permite descuido por um segundo sequer.

Em um bar, um amigo conta ao diretor Ari Folman sobre um sonho constante que tem, no qual é perseguido por 26 cães ferozes. Através da conversa, eles concluem que a imagem tem ligação com sua missão na 1ª Guerra do Líbano, no início dos anos 1980, quando defendia o exército de Israel. Como Ari nada se lembra do evento, ele passa a buscar e entrevistar seus velhos companheiros da época.

In an unprecedented and candid series of interviews, six former heads of the Shin Bet — Israel's intelligence and security agency — speak about their role in Israel's decades-long counterterrorism campaign, discussing their controversial methods and whether the ends ultimately justify the means. (TIFF)

Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.

Leba is a music instructor who lives in a small Lebanese town. Social pressure leads him to get married and have children. Lara, his beloved wife, births a girl, later other one and finally Ghadi, a boy with special needs related with Down Syndrome. Ghadi could have been a burden, but he is a cause of pride and joy for all of them —but a test too that proves the intolerance of other people.

Beirut resident Soraya is drawn to two men: daredevil photographer Nabil and Talal, who must embrace his feudal heritage when his father is kidnapped.

Jenny was made for love and Lana for gambling. In this old-fashioned country, Lebanon, women have no say. Defying everyone and everything they will fight for their freedom whatever the cost.

Yallah! Underground follows some of today’s most influential and progressive artists in Arab underground culture from 2009 to 2013 and documents their work, dreams and fears in a time of great change for Arab societies. In a region full of tension, young Arab artists in the Middle East have struggled for years to express themselves freely and to promote more liberal attitudes within their societies. During the Arab Spring, like many others of this new generation, local artists had high hopes for the future and took part in the protests. However, after years of turmoil and instability, young Arabs now have to challenge both old and new problems, being torn between feelings of disillusion and a vague hope for a better future.

In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.

This action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the machinations of his one-time student - a screw up who goes to work for the Soviets. As his job drags him deeper into a dangerous and under-handed world, the student wants out of the agency and oout of the U.S.S.R. But the man's choices have made him a target and now both the United States and Russia want him dead, sending their mos able hit men to do it.

Lamia, a naive woman of twenty years, lives with her husband, a coach weird and dumb mother of it, drowned in disarray. All three live an unusual and offbeat daily in Lebanon shaken by terror...

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.

July 2006. Another war breaks out in Lebanon. The directors decide to follow a movie star, Catherine Deneuve and a friend, actor and artist Rabih Mroue;, on the roads of South Lebanon. Together, they will drive through the regions devastated by the conflict. It is the beginning of an unpredictable, unexpected adventure...

Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's unusual discovery lures him into the depth of the city. Immersed into a world that is so close yet so isolated from his reality, he finds himself struggling to keep his attachments, his sense of home.

The story of a platoon of Israeli soldiers in Lebanon of 1986, shortly before Israeli withdrawal, and the dilemmas they face in having to fight against Lebanese guerilla in a hostile but civilian area.

Lebanon is a country hijacked by sects, money, and power. While citizens long for a collective identity to thrive as a community, politicians use the sectarianism for their corrupt ambitions. Unless there is a change, Lebanon will be lost forever.

Bahij Hojeij’s documentary studies the infamous Green Line between east and west Beirut during the civil war.

In 1958, in Senegal, land of emigration, Zahia Salhab gave birth to her first child Ghassan. During the same period, Lebanon, their homeland, is driven into a significant local conflict, a preamble to the next civil war.