Simple Passion

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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Parisienne

Parisienne

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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Beirut Hotel

Beirut Hotel

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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A Lost Man

A Lost Man

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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Suzanne et Osmane

Suzanne et Osmane

In the Battlefields

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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Love Conquers All

Love Conquers All

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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I Give My Heart a Medal for Letting Go of You

I Give My Heart a Medal for Letting Go of You

A photo intended for a lover and never sent

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Raddem

Raddem

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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This Smell of Sex

This Smell of Sex

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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Un Tueur

Un Tueur

Outside

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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Le Feu au cœur

Le Feu au cœur

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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Alone with War

Alone with War

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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Le Passeur

Le Passeur

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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Blackjack

Blackjack

On Borders

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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