The apocalyptic blast in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, on August 4, 2020, exacerbates anger at those in power: protests cross religious boundaries as the Lebanese people curse corruption, nepotism, gross economic mismanagement and squandering of resources. How did the Land of Cedars, a country with so much to offer, allow itself to get into such a dire situation? And will it be able to bounce back?

A few years ago, the al-Mahamids fled Bashar al-Assad and Syria to settle in Montreal. A nuanced por...

The first documentary to present an unabashed critique of the impact of the Syrian government’s agri...

July 2006. Another war breaks out in Lebanon. The directors decide to follow a movie star, Catherine...

The Israeli filmmaker Shai Corneli Polak records the building of the 'security wall' through Palesti...

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct h...

A verité legal drama about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in t...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

In Breaking Bread, exotic cuisine and a side of politics are on the menu. Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel - t...

Severely battered from the Beirut Port Explosion on August 4th, Minerva passed away eight days later...

On May 8, 1989, Sports Illustrated ran an article about Ultimate frisbee… about a team with no name ...

The film consists of three novels: the first novel about Gobustan, an ancient human settlement. The ...

The meaty saga of Burger Baron, a rogue fast-food chain with mysterious origins and a cult following...

The film documents modern slave trade through a number of African countries, under dictatorship rule...

After the end of the Cold War, the Baltic was viewed almost as a quiet backwater. A nice place to vi...

AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing s...

A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they ris...

A new reading of the historical period that began with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs (1479-1516...

A documentary on how British double-dealing during the First World War ignited the conflict between ...

Raymond Depardon had photographed the city of Beirut before it was destroyed and rebuilt. He films a...

In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the count...