1976 marks the beginning of Beirut’s calvary. With a child’s eyes the filmmaker follows for six months the daily destruction of the city’s walls. Every morning, between 6 and 10am she roams around Beirut while the militia from both sides rest from their night of fighting.

Inhabitants of Beirut talk about their love for the singer Fairuz.

‘Objects of War’ is a series of testimonials on the Lebanese war. Each person chooses an object, ord...

WINE and WAR is a documentary about one of the the oldest winemaking regions on earth and the resili...

In July 1982, the Israeli army besieged Beirut. Four days earlier, Jocelyne Saab sees her house burn...

Bahij Hojeij’s documentary studies the infamous Green Line between east and west Beirut during the c...

A few months after the incident of April 13, 1975, during which Palestinian civilians were machine-g...

Architecture in Beirut was the second greatest victim of the civil war, with pages of ancient and mo...

“Al Makhtufun” won the 1998 Best Short Documentary Film Award at the Mediterranean Film Festival for...
"When this last war broke out, I was faraway in Paris. I had but one idea: to return to Beirut as qu...
Documentary tracing Hezbollah’s emergence in southern Lebanon after years of Israeli occupation, foc...

In 1975, the long slog of civil war has recently begun in Beirut. Two friends, Tarek and Omar, suffe...

Oum Karim, a 60-year-old Beiruti lady, is used to preparing Lahm Bi Ajin (Lebanese ham pie) once per...

A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their ta...

Samar, a child of the war, finds relief from the chaos around her through Egyptian movies she watche...

Jocelyne Saab toured the city of Beirut devastated by Israeli bombings. She assesses the number of v...

Perched in a tower high above Beirut where they monitor the world below through their sniper lenses,...
KPIX's Emmy Award winning People's 5 report with Don Knapp from November 24th 1979, on the lifestyle...

A return to the fateful year of 1948 in Israel, reframed by a single photograph that is taken up one...