Maroun Bagdadi

A French photographer is kidnapped and held hostage in a war-torn Beirut. Slowly but surely his integrity and self-respect is broken. (imdb)

The camera wanders through streets standing witness to a war that has destroyed a city and an entire nation. Bagdadi goes to war against the Lebanese civil war, exploring different locations and situations in a country faced with its own demise. The poetic text raises questions of life and death through contrasting images of violent death and the will to live. (nadilekolnas.org)

This film gives an account of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon through meetings and interviews with common people and leading personalties from the south of the country. In a satirical twist, We Are All for the Fatherland mixes footage of the war and its ravages with cut scenes of young children trying to sing the Lebanese national anthem amidst armed conflict, military strategies and speeches. (nadilekolnas.org)

This film is inspired by a song by Marcel Khalife based on a poem by Hassan Al-Abdallah. Its starting point is a martyr of the Communist Action Organization (part of Lebanon's National Front) and his mother's pain. It draws an intimate portrait of young idealists who dreamed of establishing a republic based on justice and egalitarianism in the first chapter of the civil war. (nadilekolnas.org)

This film documents the 1978 Israeli invasion of Lebanon through the experiences of Lebanese villagers and their daily sufferings under the occupation. The film was shown at the United Nations upon the request of Lebanon's representative Ghassan Tueini. Its screening was a major influence in the issuance of resolution 425, concerning the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from Lebanon. (nadilekolnas.org)

Lebanon, 1975. How Tahal, an affluent young man becomes a warlord ; how Soraya, the girl he leaves behind, tries to help him in abducting a businessman ; how Nabil, a press photographer deals drugs under the cover of the civil war and poses as the hero he aspires to be but is not at all... (imdb)

In the aftermath of the 1967 defeat, four young Lebanese try to figure out their places in a society whose rules seem to have changed. It proved to be an extraordinary anticipation of the civil war that would engulf the country while the film was being edited. (imdb)

At every station, between sites filled with poetry and nostalgia for a bygone era, the poet's dashed dreams and idealized vision of her country coincide with the director's own. (imdb)

A woman, madly in love, decides to organize the escape of her husband who has received a sentence of 18 years in prison. (imdb)