Simple Passion
A man and a woman are brought together by chance for several months. He is younger than she is, married, Russian, officially a diplomat stationed...
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18-year-old Lina arrives in Paris for her studies. She comes to look for what she has never found in Lebanon, her country of origin: a certain form...
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One evening, a married young singer Zoha meets the French lawyer Mathieu in a night club in Beirut. Mathieu will become suspected of spying, while...
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Inspired by the photographic travels of Antione d'Agata, Danielle Arbid's worldly drama follows a French photographer who travels the globe to seek...
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In the Battlefields
Lina, a young girl in war-torn Beirut, finds an ally and friend in Sihan, her domineering aunt's maid. Sihan shows Lina what her life could be like...
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Susan, a 65 year old impoverished widow living in Beirut, meets Osman, a young Sudanese immigrant worker without papers. They instantly fall in...
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A photo intended for a lover and never sent
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A young woman searches through war-torn and rebuilding Beirut for a man who took pictures of her home. A home she has only ever known in ruins.
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Archival footage of prim young girls alternates with darkened shots of men and women discussing their formative experiences and their fantasies...
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Outside
During the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic, filmmaker Danielle Arbid becomes obsessed with a mysterious girl she sees from the window of...
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By a miracle, on an autumn day at the 104-Cenquatre Paris, ten dancers came to show what they could do at the event "Fous de danse" initiated by Le...
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Beirut is a wonderful town. It's like you're at the center of everything. In Beirut, between 1975 and 1990, there was a civil war, everybody wanted...
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Ibrahim, a Kurdish refugee, is hired by a French health care mutual which repatriates the bodies of dead Africans to their countries of origin. The...
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On Borders
In this documentary road movie, filmmaker Danielle Arbid tries to conjure up an image of the country that is called Israel or Palestine.
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