Lebanese
Heaven Without People
The setting for this family drama is the home of a Lebanese Christian family who for the first time have managed to get their entire clan together for an Easter lunch. The matriarch Josephine (Samira Sarkis) is nominally in charge, but very soon as the lively conversation gets going with several family members talking…
Out Loud : an exceptional queer Lebanese drama
The four young men have been best friends forever and what keeps them together is their need to help each other. Naive and innocent Jason is still dealing with being alone after his parents were assassinated by a car bomb; Elvis is trying to get out of the clutches of his drug dealing father so…
WHERE DO WE GO NOW?
If we believed Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki’s wonderfully preposterous concept that if all the villages in the Middle East were run by women there would by no conflicts or war at all. In this delightful satirical tale she actually has us believe that in one such case, it is more than feasible, it’s actually possible.…
