Project Title: Arze / Red Carpet
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: Joze Piranian
Duration: 52 minutes
Year: 2024
Genre: (Not specified)
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 al lika2 // Beyrouth La Rencontre // بيروت اللقاء
Directors: Bourhan 3alawiye
Duration: 100 minutes
Year: 1981 / 1982 (restored)
Genre: (Not specified)
Synopsis:
50th anniversary of the Lebanese civil war.
Project Title: ila ayn / Where to
Directors: Jooseph Nasr
Duration: 77 minutes
Year: (Not specified)
Genre: (Not specified)
Synopsis:
The first Lebanese film to be featured at the Cannes Festival.
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.