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APELO By Bechara Mouzannar
Bechara is a Lebanese man visiting Brazil Strolling along Copacabana, in Rio de Janeiro, he has an unexpected and very real moment of truth when, having left the hotel at night to withdraw some cash,
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THE VALLEY by Ghassan Salhab
tain road, a middle-aged man loses his down the road, he encounters people with engine trouble and helps them get their leave him stranded, so they take him home to their large estate in the Bekaa valley, a place where production is not only agricultural, and a place he may never leave
28 NIGHTS AND A POEM by Akram Zaatari
Partly a study of the work of a photographer’s studio practice in the mid twentieth century and partly an exploration of the to understand how did this mode of producing images, functioned in the lives of communities it served, and how it seized to exist and what did it lead to?
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THE NARROW FRAME OF MIDNIGHT
A young orphan, Aïcha, is taken and sold from her home in the hills of the Atlas
who has left everything to search for his a journey that will lead them across Mo-
I AM NOJOOM, AGE 10 AND DIVORCED
the family a small income and ‘one less
day after she is wedded, the child works under harsh conditions and every night, -
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MOMMY By Xavier Dolan
mother, Diane, picks him up from a government institution to care for him at home, it is an act of deep maternal comAs Diane tries to manage her son’s mood swings at home, it’s clear that she’s not exbec woman with a messy personal life, in mother and son, a surprising trio
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THE HOUR OF LIBERATION HAS ARRIVED
facts and realities behind this revolutionary movement, showing the methods to build a society that is engaged in all as-
STABLE UNSTABLE
are visiting their psychologist, clinging to ic and on to the couch of their therapist’s ing’s residents, different stories of lonely
LADDER TO DAMASCUS By Mohamad Malas
Ghalia is inhabited by the soul of Zeina, a girl who ina’s past life, Ghalia travels to Damascus to study
ascene house, now converted into a dorm inhabit-
the tumultuous events in Syria start unfolding in the streets around them gradually encroaches on
ILO ILO By Anthony Chen
tionship between a family of three and their
of this stranger, which further threatens their Jiale, the young and troublesome boy she cares continues to develop and soon she becomes an starting to be felt in all the region…
BLOOD TIES By Guillaume Canet
grew up in the same rough neighborhood
inal temptations for the sake of family but job on the line and the fate of his brother
DEATH FOR SALE
friends, small time crooks, decide to rob the town’s biggest jewelry store to escape falls apart, the three friends must face
RUST AND BONE
meets Stephanie, a beautiful, self-conher again, she is crammed into a wheelwith her, without pity, and help her to live
THE LEBANESE ROCKET SOCIETY
their professor, Manoug Manougian, designed and launched rockets for space and was erased from the collective memture and attempts to revive the past in the
GATE #5
nese left their villages and searched for a new life in ipate in the vibrant urban life, to enjoy their time at shrunk to the port where they offer their skills as day -
A SEPARATION
decision to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay -
MY LITTLE PRINCESS
on taking photographs and concentrates on her dreams to become a famous artthen her mother visits her daughter but during these occasions it occurs to her that She starts exploiting her daughter who by transforming into a kind of Lolita becomes increasingly alienated from other children
SECTOR ZERO
On the outskirts of Beirut, between the City’s port and it’s densely populated center, lies the notorious, now derelict, area this neglected urban wasteland, Sector Zero examines the area’s peculiar history, using it as a metaphor for Lebanon’s own a documentation as it is an investigation into the dark corners of modern Lebanon’s collective memory in an attempt to discover how much of who we are is based largely on that part of ourselves we have
THE MOUNTAIN By Ghassan Salhab
old man, packs his luggage and sets out to to leave for a month, but instead, he rents
STRAY BULLET
ly is relieved to see her take advantage of
non, on the same evening her elder broth-
OK ENOUGH GOODBYE
Lebanon, where family bonds run very deep, a forty-something man still lives with his elderly mother and has given up when one day his mother suddenly leaves him, the man is left with nothing but the
YANOOSAK
nary Swiss German living in Zurich, who decides one day to reside in Beirut in order to meet his soul mate and establish a and another, he manages however to this segment of his tragic-comic life while revealing how European culture tries to blend into the oriental culture without ful-
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EVERYDAY IS A HOLIDAY
women who’ve never met before are on the same bus heading to visit a prison tered with mines and decapitated dreams, the journey transforms into the women’s
1958 By Ghassan Salhab
“Everything has been said or almost
Senegal, land of immigration, while Lebanon, her country of origin, is plunged in
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JE VEUX VOIR
the hopes of peace and the dynamism of our gen-
rut with an “icon”, an actress who, to us, symboldrive through the regions devastated by the con-
unexpected adventure…
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MELODRAMA HABIBI
HABIBI
forgotten today, he earns a living as a rebreaking up with his girlfriend, Bruno nessman wants him to come sing in Beiple’s minds…
THE ONE MAN VILLAGE
the crack of dawn, tends to his cows and other animals and prepares the products was completely destroyed and eventually to the village to visit their houses and cultivate their plots of land, but always leave before sunset…
