Two young women, Yasmine and Leïla, one Muslim, one Christian, set off on a search for the memory of their brutalized and amnesiac city, Beirut, and so doing discover a vital resource in the person of Mr. Farouk, an aged cinema owner whose collection of old, discarded film prints, a treasure trove of living Lebanese history, he provides them access to.

Jocelyne Saab’s first nonfiction feature, begun shortly after the slaughter of some six thousand Palestinians by right-wing Christian Phalangists in April 1975, which would spark a 15-year Civil War, is an inquest into this atrocity, charting the chain of events that had led Lebanon to the point of tragic self-immolation.

The Razor’s Edge is a film about, among other things, art’s ability to act as a lifeline in even the worst of times, depicting the blossoming friendship between a middle-aged artist and a teenage refugee who has arrived in the city from the occupied south.

This sprawling biopic explores the life of Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum and the seven decades of triumph, failure, and love that informed one of the most enduring careers in the history of contemporary music.

Teenage Nafisa becomes the center of a power play to determine the future of her cotton-farming village when a foreign businessman arrives with a new development plan and genetically engineered cotton.

Maria’s life is turned upside down when her daughter arrives in Tangier to sell her apartment. She does everything she can to stay and, unexpectedly, rediscovers love and sensuality along the way.

Despite her efforts to avoid getting picked, 9-year-old Lamia is chosen among her classmates to make a cake for President Saddam Hussein’s birthday celebration, and must use her wits to gather the scarcely-available ingredients.

A love letter to Beirut, this personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory spans 70 years of film, TV, home videos, and photography exploring the Lebanese collective psyche—marked by joy and loss.

Haya lives a reckless life plagued by a curse’s promise that she will die before turning thirty, but a budding romance with her emotional foil—the subdued surgeon Youssef—reveals the dichotomy in two ways of living.

Eight-year-old Toha works as a maid for a wealthy family in Cairo, and is set on hosting a successful birthday party for her best friend: her employer’s daughter.

Based on the actual meeting of director Shawky’s parents, this combination of narrative vignettes interspersed with archival footage serves as a decade and nation-spanning time capsule of love in the seventies.

With a lived-in granularity and striking animation style, Bouchra follows the creative journey of a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC and her emotional reckoning with the rift in her identity.

American Doctor is a vérité non-fiction film following three prominent American physicians—Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian—friends who couldn’t be more different but are bound by their shared oath to save lives.

A journey to Mecca for a grandma and her two granddaughters is interrupted when the eldest sister disappears, sending the remaining duo on a search across Saudi Arabia.

Torn between love and survival, two reunited childhood sweethearts must decide whether to build a family and seek happiness in Lebanon, or leave their home amid the country’s unfolding tragedies.

Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl, reached countless listeners around the world after recordings of her desperate calls for help were released online. Combining archival audio with dramatic recreation, this powerful film compels us to face this tragedy with open eyes.

Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl, reached countless listeners around the world after recordings of her desperate calls for help were released online. Combining archival audio with dramatic recreation, this powerful film compels us to face this tragedy with open eyes.

Maria’s life is turned upside down when her daughter arrives in Tangier to sell her apartment. She does everything she can to stay and, unexpectedly, rediscovers love and sensuality along the way.

Torn between love and survival, two reunited childhood sweethearts must decide whether to build a family and seek happiness in Lebanon, or leave their home amid the country’s unfolding tragedies.

A journey to Mecca for a grandma and her two granddaughters is interrupted when the eldest sister disappears, sending the remaining duo on a search across Saudi Arabia.

With a lived-in granularity and striking animation style, Bouchra follows the creative journey of a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC and her emotional reckoning with the rift in her identity.

Eight-year-old Toha works as a maid for a wealthy family in Cairo, and is set on hosting a successful birthday party for her best friend: her employer’s daughter.

A love letter to Beirut, this personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory spans 70 years of film, TV, home videos, and photography exploring the Lebanese collective psyche—marked by joy and loss.

Haya lives a reckless life plagued by a curse’s promise that she will die before turning thirty, but a budding romance with her emotional foil—the subdued surgeon Youssef—reveals the dichotomy in two ways of living.

Teenage Nafisa becomes the center of a power play to determine the future of her cotton-farming village when a foreign businessman arrives with a new development plan and genetically engineered cotton.

Based on the actual meeting of director Shawky’s parents, this combination of narrative vignettes interspersed with archival footage serves as a decade and nation-spanning time capsule of love in the seventies.

Despite her efforts to avoid getting picked, 9-year-old Lamia is chosen among her classmates to make a cake for President Saddam Hussein’s birthday celebration, and must use her wits to gather the scarcely-available ingredients.

This sprawling biopic explores the life of Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum and the seven decades of triumph, failure, and love that informed one of the most enduring careers in the history of contemporary music.

Lina, a young girl in war-torn Beirut, finds an ally and friend in Sihan, her domineering aunt's maid. Sihan shows Lina what her life could be like, but tests the girl's limits when she asks her to help plot her escape from the city.

A playful and personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage. It is a love letter to Beirut, spanning 70 years of film, TV, home videos, and photography, exploring the Lebanese collective psyche – marked by joy and intimacy, destruction and loss.