Tag: Lebanon Cinema

  • Video: What an 1980 AUB Student had to say about Lebanon

    Nadia Tueni meets a student, Haitham Haddad, from the American University of Beirut (AUB) who talks to her about his love for music and his hatred of war.

    Video: What an 1980 AUB Student had to say about Lebanon
  • Video: Woman Dancing in Beirut (1980)

    Beautiful video of a Lebanese woman dancing to the tune of a Oud in 1980

    Video: Woman Dancing in Beirut (1980)
  • Heritages: A Review

    Heritages is the story of Philippe Aractingi and his Franco-Lebanese family as they trace back their own family history and compare, contrast it with the history of Lebanon and the…

    Heritages: A Review
  • Selections from the 11th Lebanese Film Festival | 2014

    A list of my favorite movies screened at the 2014 edition of the Lebanese Film Festival

    Selections from the 11th Lebanese Film Festival | 2014
  • FADE IN:, the Lebanese Cinema Studies Company

    FADE IN: is a Lebanese Cinema Studies Company whose mission is “to help artists express themselves through motion-picture and writing”.

    FADE IN:, the Lebanese Cinema Studies Company
  • Maroun Baghdadi in the Limelight

    “Maroun Baghdadi’s portrayal of everyday Lebanese during the 70s and 80s evokes haunting images of a nation of fractured identities.”

    Maroun Baghdadi in the Limelight
  • Tomorrow We Will See

    “Tomorrow We Will See” offers a window into Lebanon’s flourishing creative culture through the perspective of ten Lebanese artists

    Tomorrow We Will See
  • Review: “I Am Breathing” presented by LAND For Hope

    I just came back from the movie screening of “I am Breathing” which was presented by the Lebanese Association for Neuromuscular Diseases or “LAND” in partnership with the British Council at…

    Review: “I Am Breathing” presented by LAND For Hope
  • Sleepless Nights: A Review

    A movie about two unlikely characters: Maryam, mother of a disappeared of a communist youth. Assaad Chaftari, a senior intelligence officer of the Lebanese Forces during the war.

  • The unbelievable true story of the ‘Lebanese Rocket Society’

    “Before the United States went to the moon, Lebanon had a space program,” wrote IndieWire. Students at Beirut’s Haigaizian University and their Maths and Physics teacher, Manoug Manougian, launched the 1st…

    The unbelievable true story of the ‘Lebanese Rocket Society’
  • Outbox International Film Festival 2012

    By Elia Ayoub This is the program for the 2012 Outbox International Film Festival. It starts on the 14th of June and ends on the 17th  every day at 8pm.…

    Outbox International Film Festival 2012
  • 4th Annual Cabriolet Film Festival: Lebanese and International Short Films

    Today at 8pm. Gemmayze St Nicholas Stairs  For more info, check out their page. The Program: Elia‘s Pick for Day 1: Na wewe – Ivan Goldschmit – Belgium – 18:52…

    4th Annual Cabriolet Film Festival: Lebanese and International Short Films
  • A Love of [Lebanese] Trains

    The short documentary by Guilhem Bertran and Marc-Antoine Bindler was listed at the “Festival Européen des 4 Ecrans” which took place in Paris from the 18th to the 20th of…

    A Love of [Lebanese] Trains
  • Worlds Alike: Irish Film Week

    For the first ever festival of Irish film in Lebanon, Lebanese NGO Nahwa Al Muwatiniya, in association with Metropolis, will screen a series of nine feature length films and twelve…

  • Film Screening of “Beirut” by Rahel Zegeye

    Reblogged from Migrant Workers Task Force Rahel Zegeye, an Ethiopian migrant worker, MWTF member, language student, and filmmaker, is proud to be presenting her first feature film with the support…