The Green Line (1998)

Роберт Баер — ветеран ЦРУ, проработавший в агентстве 21 год. Все это время он боролся с терорризмом во всем мире. Однако, после окончания «холодной войны», когда угроза терроризма возросла, ЦРУ урезало финансирование проектов на Ближнем Востоке и в итоге потеряло контроль над стратегически важным регионом. Борьба разгорается с новой силой и приобретает личный характер, когда руководитель нефтяной компании Брайан Вудман готовится совершить сделку с шейхом одной из стран Ближнего Востока, богатой нефтью, и, в то же время, переживает серьезную семейную трагедию со своей женой Джули…

Двенадцатилетний Зейн не может точно ответить на вопрос, сколько у него братьев и сестёр, но уверен, что детей в его семье должно было быть меньше. Несмотря на юный возраст, Зейн нелегально работает, следит за младшими, помогает старшим, ищет деньги и документы на эмиграцию в Швецию. Он смотрит на мир с нескрываемой ненавистью. Ему есть что ненавидеть. Дети на улицах Бейрута попрошайничают, едят посыпанный сахаром лёд и чипсы, девочек как можно раньше продают замуж, сам он вынужден есть что попало, спать, где придётся, и самое главное — он только что получил пятилетний срок. В тюрьме Зейн подаёт в суд на родителей. За то, что они дали ему жизнь.

Бывший американский дипломат возвращается в Бейрут, чтобы спасти своих старых коллег, попавших в заложники к боевикам.

Старый друг Ари Фольмана, сидя ночью в баре, жалуется ему на то, что его преследует один и тот же ужасный сон: за ним гонятся 26 разъяренных собак. Почему 26? «Все очень просто, — отвечает приятель, — когда мы были на войне в Ливане, в 82-м году, в моей роте знали, что я стрелять в людей не смогу. Мне поручили перестрелять всех собак в арабской деревне. Собаки воют и лают, когда чувствуют чужаков и, таким образом, предупреждают террористов. И я перестрелял всех 26 собак, которые были в этой деревне. С тех пор они мне снятся каждую ночь. Ты мог бы что-нибудь с этим сделать?»

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)

In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game. His mother wants to leave; his father refuses. Tarek spends time with May, a Christian, orphaned and living in his building. By accident, Tarek goes to an infamous brothel in the war-torn Olive Quarter, meeting its legendary madam, Oum Walid. He then takes Omar and May there using her underwear as a white flag for safe passage. Family tensions rise. As he comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy.

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.

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.

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

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.

Действие фильма происходит в Ливане в 2006 году. Послевоенное время. Главные герои посещают места, затронутые конфликтом.

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.

Rabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. He sings in a choir and edits Braille documents for an income. His life unravels when he tries to apply for a passport and discovers that his identification card, which he has carried his entire life, is fake. Now he must travel across Lebanon in search of his identity.

WINE and WAR is a documentary about one of the the oldest winemaking regions on earth and the resilience of the Lebanese entrepreneurial spirit seen through the lens of war and instability.

Рассказ о том, как сегодня обращаются с беженцами и мигрантами в Ливане, Италии, Германии и Швейцарии.

Kahlil Gibran remembers his days as a young poet and artist in Lebanon, and of the young woman (Salma) who ignited his passions.

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.

A family lives poorly in a village in the Lebanese mountain. One day the father abandons his family and leaves for Brazil, considered an Eldorado by a great number of his compatriots. Twenty years pass. The mother raised her children with great difficulty: the elder has a family and the younger one is getting ready to immigrate to Brazil. One day a ragged old man arrives to the village.

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.

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.