Project Title: Arzé
Directors: Mira Shaib
Duration: 90 minutes
Year: 2024
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Synopsis:
Arzé is a struggling single mother living in Beirut with her agoraphobic older sister and teenage son, Kinan. Supporting the family by making homemade pies delivered on foot by her son, Arzé knows that the business can only sustain them for so long. In a move of desperation, she steals her sister’s cherished bracelet to pawn for the down payment on a delivery scooter. But disaster strikes when the scooter is stolen, jeopardizing her only way to provide for her family.
Up against a ticking clock to either find the scooter or a way to pay for it in full, Arzé and Kinan embark on a wild journey through the turbulent but vibrant, multiethnic Levantine capital in pursuit of the pilfered moped.
Project Title: Words Left Unspoken
Directors: Josiane Blanc
Duration: 52 minutes
Year: 2024
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis:
After avoiding speaking at all costs for over two decades, Joze Piranian, who has a severe stutter, decides to confront his fears and make peace with the past by traveling to his home country, Lebanon, to hold the conversations he never dared to have before with his family.
Project Title: Beirut The Encounter
Directors: Borhane Alaouié
Duration: 100 minutes
Year: 1981 (Restored)
Genre: Drama, War
Synopsis:
Zeina is about to leave the country. Haydar hasn’t been in the city for very long; he had to leave his village because of the civil war. The two haven’t seen each other in years, although a sense of longing has endured. The nature of their relationship – whether friendship, romance, or something in between – is deliberately left vague by the film’s director, Borhane Alaouié. The camera follows the two of them for around 24 hours, past checkpoints and ruins, stuck in traffic, waiting in vain in a cafe. Suspense arises from the question of whether they will manage to see each other one last time.
Project Title: Where to?
Directors: Georges Nasser
Duration: 77 minutes
Year: 1957
Genre: Drama
Synopsis:
The first Lebanese film to be featured at the Cannes Festival.
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.
Project Title: Une Femme cachée
Directors: Bachir Bensaddek
Duration: 101 min
Year: 2024
Genre: Drama
Synopsis:
Haunted by a past she hoped to escape, pregnant Halima reluctantly allows her partner Sylvain to join her in the pursuit of her estranged family abroad.
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