Adas Felesteen
Director: Hamdi Khalil Elhusseini
Year: 2024
Genre: Short Documentary
Language: Arabic – VOSTA
Duration: 8 minutes
Synopsis: “Palestine Lentils” is a documentary film that tells the story of a Palestinian chef and his role in using his hobby as a shield against the famine caused by the war on Gaza, preserving the spirit of resilience and hope within his community.
All this Death
Director: Fadi Syriani
Year: 2025
Genre: Animation
Language: No Speaking
Duration: 16 minutes
Synopsis: Every day, Vladimir wakes up, checks the obituary section in the newspaper, and leaves to attend a funeral. This “mourning” routine repeats itself with devotion, revealing his deliberate journey to grieve and come to terms with the loss of a beloved wife, a home, and a city slowly collapsing into turmoil.
BOW
Director: Pio Chihane
Year: TBA
Genre: TBA
Language: Arabic – VOSTA
Duration: 8 minutes
Synopsis: TBA
Cage
Director: Matthew Ibrahim
Year: TBA
Genre: Short, Student
Language: Arabic – VOSTA
Duration: 10 minutes
Synopsis: Farid is a young man living alone in his small apartment. As we go with him through his day, we can see the way he isolates himself as he battles his depression and loneliness. In the beginning of the film, Farid gets canned food from the market and postpones his bill. He goes home and stands in front of a window with papers colored in a marker, he takes a marker and adds to the drawings. The night falls, Farid lights up a few candles and sits on his couch, the room is unclean with leftover cans of tuna all around him. He eats in silence as he watches a candle placed where a TV should’ve been. The next day, two men come to Farid’s house, they leave with some of his furniture leaving him only his mirror. Farid looks at his reflection and decides to leave the house. He comes back home with a cage inside of it two little birds, he seems content with their presence. He feeds them as they joyfully play together but Farid turns sad, he touches the cage and decides to open it. When the birds get out Farid finally smiles.
Child in the Frame
Director: Emilio Bou Onk
Year: TBA
Genre: Short, Documentary
Language: Arabic – VOSTFR
Duration: 20 minutes
Synopsis: In a quiet corner of Lebanon, the walls of a family home witness a slow, silent transformation. As dementia begins to blur the lines of memory and identity, a daughter must navigate the emotional weight of a shifting reality. “Child in the Frame” is an intimate portrait of caregiving, exploring the fragile moment when the roles of mother and daughter are irreversibly traded, and love becomes a form of survival.
Death & Other Fears
Director: Marie-Louise Elia
Year: 2024
Genre: Documentary
Language: Arabic – VOSTA
Duration: 11 minutes
Synopsis: Through an inner monologue, collected footage, and texts written at different time intervals, the filmmaker questions her relationship with mortality, death, and other fears.
Dimmed Colors
Director: Clara Freifer
Year: 2025
Genre: Short, Student
Language: Arabic – VOSTA
Duration: 5 minutes
Synopsis: Omar, a balloon seller in his fifties, roams the streets with a fragile smile that hides a troubled mind. As he tries to survive one ordinary day, a series of small but devastating events — especially the theft of his motorbike— unravels his fragile balance between innocence and despair, revealing the quiet tragedy of a man lost between childhood and reality.
How I became “the astray”
Director: Joe Habka
Year: TBA
Genre: Short, Student
Language: Arabic- VOSTA
Duration: 12 minutes
Synopsis: A self portrait documentary that explores how one comment by a school psychologist turned a loud, expressive 11 year old child into a reserved, quiet adult.
“I can’t think of anything right now”
Director: Hussen IBRAHEEM
Year: 2025
Genre: Short, Alternatif
Language: Arabic- VOSTA
Duration: 11 min
Synopsis: A downpour, a taxi, a ride through forgotten pasts and lost futures and a decision: which of these do we want to keep?
Jedo’s Dead
Director: Sara Nimeh
Year: 2023
Genre: Drama
Language: English – VOSTA
Duration: 11 minutes
Synopsis: During the social and political turmoil of 9/11, a young girl and her autistic brother intimately confront loss when they discover their dead grandfather’s body. Jedo’s Dead frames the traditional rituals surrounding death and loss through the eyes of young children. Alone and confused, they work their way through the stages of human grief—from the painfully human to the inescapably transcendent.
Last Days Of the Man of Tomorrow
Director: Fadi Baki
Year: 2017
Genre: Short, Documentary
Language: Arabic – VOSTA
Duration: 29 minutes
Synopsis: A young filmmaker investigates the legend of Manivelle, an automaton gifted to Lebanon in 1945 that still haunts an abandoned mansion in Beirut. After being coaxed back out into the limelight, the people who knew him come forward to speak their mind, and the myth that Manivelle has constructed around himself starts to unravel.
Memory Within A Tree
Director: Wassim Tanios
Year: TBA
Genre: Documentary, Environmental
Language: Arabic – VOSTA
Duration: 15 minutes
Synopsis: It’s a journey in the high arid mountains with two dedicated men to encounter the Juniper tree, revealing their active connection to this tree thus restoring its lost value as a sacred living organism, a keeper of memory and an ecological pillar essential in our present time and to our future.
Play
Director: Jack Mouaykel
Year: TBA
Genre: Short, Student
Language: Arabic – VOSTA
Duration: 13 minutes
Synopsis: From action and voice to hands and craft, the past stays present in the way it’s told
Point(e) Morte
Director: Pamela Nassour
Year: 2026
Genre: TBA
Language: TBA
Duration: 30 min
Synopsis: TBA
Roua
Director: Yasmin Kobeissi
Year: 2024
Genre: Narrative, Drama
Language: Arabic – VOSTA
Duration: 11 minutes
Synopsis: Memories, imaginations, and dreams of a girl who lives in South Lebanon.
Spring Has Come to Prison
Director: Yara Adachi
Year: 2025
Genre: Short, Documentary, Student
Language: Arabic and Japanese- VOSTA
Duration: 24 minutes
Synopsis: “Spring Has Come to Prison” tells the true story of a Japanese film director/guerrilla fighter and a Lebanese acupuncturist who fell in love before his imprisonment and stayed connected through paintings and trust. Blending present-day reflections with archival footage and art, the film traces their journey from an unlikely meeting to a wedding behind bars.
Stay
Director: Jaime Daccache
Year: TBA
Genre: Short, Student
Language: Arabic – VOSTA
Duration: 13 minutes
Synopsis: A grief-stricken son struggles to care for his aging, stubborn father, whose refusal to accept help brings them to a breaking point, forcing each to confront the shadow of their shared loss and find a way forward
Take Care of My Johny
Director: Anthony Bou Rjeily
Year: 2025
Genre: Documentary, Student
Language: Arabic and French- VOSTA
Duration: 24 minutes
Synopsis: Tender, intimate documentary about love, family, and letting go. At its heart is Johny, the only son of a deeply loving Lebanese family, who finds love abroad and chooses to start a new life with his soon-to-be wife, Eloïse. What begins as a wedding film slowly unfolds into a farewell, a prayer, and a quiet plea from a family watching their son leave their home country, perhaps forever. Filmed between Lebanon and France, this story follows Johny and Eloïse’s respective families and the emotional collision of two worlds. Through raw interviews and quiet moments, the film captures the profound joy of union, as well as the ache of distance and the silent fear of being forgotten. It’s a reflection on what it means to belong, especially for Lebanese youth who are forced to build futures far from their roots, in a country that’s been falling apart beneath their feet.
The Earth Weavers
Director: Rima Kaddissi
Year: 2024
Genre: Documentary
Language: Arabic – VOSTA
Duration: 26 minutes
Synopsis: “The Earth Weavers” celebrates the collective journey back to the land. It’s a testament to the transformative power of communal care, where women come together to reclaim their ancestral knowledge, language, culture, and land. Their stories speak volumes about the profound connection between humans and the natural world, portrayed as a form of resistance against the oppressive forces that seek to disconnect us from our roots.
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Director: Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski
Year: 2025
Genre: Animation
Language: TBA
Duration: 17 minutes
Synopsis: A poor boy’s love for a girl whose tears turn to pearls leads him into a perilous bargain between love, greed, and survival
The Other Country
Director: Sylvain Adas
Year: 2024
Genre: Documentary, Short
Language: French – VOSTA
Duration: 24 minutes
Synopsis: On 4 August 2020, the explosion of the port of Beirut suddenly brought Lebanon back into my life. Being French-Lebanese myself, I could not stop thinking about it. For the first time, I decided to go there alone, without my parents, at the same age they left their country. Between diary and family portrait, this film is about my stay in Lebanon, a scarred country that feels so familiar and yet so foreign to me; my other country.
The President’s Visit
Director: Cyril Aris
Year: 2017
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Short
Language: TBA
Duration: 19 minutes
Synopsis: When a small coastal town of fishermen learns about the secret visit of the President of the Republic to its local soap shop, they embark in an everlasting struggle at cleaning up and maintaining the perfect image of their town.
The Space between us
Director: Antoine Gaspard
Year: 2025
Genre: Short, Student
Language: Arabic – VOSTA
Duration: 18 minutes
Synopsis: Salma, a 45-year-old writer, and Marwan, a young man in his twenties, meet in his stargazing garden. They connect through star talk, playful conversations, and intimate moments. They spend the night together. The next day, Marwan wakes to find her gone, with a paper from her post-bound notebook on the floor, indicating a place described in strange words. He goes to the forest and finds her, mesmerized by her unreal aura. He follows her to the lake. The same day, they enter an old house where Salma says she is inspired to live and write. Marwan helps her clean the house, and they spend a second night together. As Marwan sleeps, Salma writes about him and how they met, the passage is very enigmatic. The same night, she wakes up to find Marwan is gone. The two lovers meet again in the forest and enter the lake together again. Marwan reveals he has read her notebook. Is Salma a creature from another world or just a writer of fantasy novels?
The Tree of Hell
Director: Raed Zeno
Year: 2024
Genre: Documentary, Short, Environmental
Language: Arabic – VOSTA
Duration: 20 minutes
Synopsis: Raed discovers by chance that the beautiful tree growing in front of his house is one of the invasive trees that threatens the environmental diversity in the Lebanese forest. He begins the journey of exploring this tree with his friend Hadi and Dr. Muhammad, who specializes in invasive plants, at a time when the country is exposed to another type of invasion represented by Israeli attacks on humans and their environment.
To Fade Away
Director: Camille Hamadé
Year: 2024
Genre: Short
Language: English – VOSTFR
Duration: 16 minutes
Synopsis: Based on a True Story set in 1935 Schenectady, New York. After the company he works for refuses to invest in his solar energy project, Lebanese scientist Camil Al-Sabbah pursues another opportunity to achieve his dream, but becomes increasingly suspicious of forces that seem to be conspiring against him.
When I Remember You
Director: Marlvin Al Kobtawi
Year: TBA
Genre: Short, Student
Language: Arabic – VOSTA
Duration: 6 minutes
Synopsis: Hala, a troubled young woman seeking escape from her suffocating home life, is pulled into a night out by her carefree friend Farah and her boyfriend Omar. As tension builds during the drive, Hala’s unease turns into confrontation, and she chooses to leave.
Alone in the streets, overwhelmed by fear, guilt, and pressure, she runs, until a single distracted moment leads to a tragic end.
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