A Letter from a Time of War (1984)

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.

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…

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)

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.

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

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.