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All Lebanon articles
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NewsCate Blanchett, Nadine Labaki support Beirut film hub launch
The venue will house screenings, industry training and efforts to preserve film heritage in the region.
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NewsAnthology ‘Disorder’ about life in Lebanon acquired by Front Row ahead of El Gouna
Four shorts blend drama and dark humour to explore Lebanon’s recent tumultuous years.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Rabih El Khoury (Lebanon & Germany)
He is especially passionate about Arab cinema, as well as cinema from the rest of the global south.
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NewsMAD World takes sales on Lebanese thriller ‘In This Darkness I See You’ (exclusive)
The newly launched sales company will launch the ghost story at the Cannes market.
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NewsFront Row planning feature, series around Lebanese bank robber Sally Hafez
Front Row Productions is also exploring a documentary and podcast series.
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Reviews‘Portrait Of A Certain Orient’: Rotterdam Review
A brother and sister depart 1940s Lebanon for a new life in Brazil in the latest from Marcelo Gomes
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NewsMunich Film Up! mentoring programme unveils 2023 participants (exclusive)
The selected participants have all recently graduated from film school and are hoping to develop their feature debut.
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Reviews‘In The Shadow Of Beirut’: Galway Review
Backed by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, this Lebanon-set documentary presents a troubling portrait of life in Sabra and Shatila
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Reviews‘Machtat’: Visions du Reel Review
A trio of female wedding singers find freedom in their art in this involving Tunisian documentary
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2022: Ziad Jallad, actor (Lebanon)
Jallad starred in Venice title ’Dirty Difficult Dangerous’.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2022: Dania Bdeir, writer/director (Lebanon)
Bdeir’s short ‘Warsha’ has picked up over 45 festival awards.
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Reviews‘Riverbed’: Cairo Review
A mother and daughter struggle to reconnect in Bassem Breche’s imagery-led feature debut
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Reviews‘Dirty Difficult Dangerous’: Hamburg Review
Two refugees find love against the odds in modern Beirut
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NewsReclaim the Frame x International unveils participants in Filmonomics training programme (exclusive)
The Filmonomics course will be led by director of Birds’ Eye View Melanie Iredale and training manager Simone Glover,
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Reviews‘The Dam’: Cannes Review
Ali Cherri’s Directors’ Fortnight feature debut about a Sudanese brick-maker is a striking allegorical tale
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NewsIndie Sales boards Ali Cherri’s Directors’ Fortnight title ‘The Dam’ (exclusive)
Lebanese director Cherri is also a celebrated artist whose work is currently showing at The National Gallery and Venice Biennale
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FeaturesQumra mentor Ghassan Salhab talks about his early career and his new Beirut vampire film
Senegalese-born, Lebanese-French director talks about his hands-off mentoring approach.
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Reviews‘Broken Keys’: Red Sea Review
Jimmy Keyrouz’s impressive debut feature chronicles the horrors of war-torn Syria
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NewsFront Row acquires stake in creative agency Operation Unicorn
Companies are already collaborating on an Arabic-language remake of ‘Intouchables’
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Reviews‘The Sea Ahead’: Red Sea Review
Ely Dagher’s striking first feature is a poetic look at a woman who returns home, finding a city she no longer recognises