Shawki Matta

Cat on Fire

Contractor Mahmoud Abdel Majeed is afflicted with cancer, and his children hide the truth about his illness from him. This man has two sons, the eldest, Mukhtar, has a weak personality, while the younger son, Amin, does not covet his father’s money and lives in isolation with his wife, Gigi. She has many ambitions to transfer ownership of the factory to Amin, but he considers her... The reason his gay friend committed suicide.

Nagi El-Ali

After the assassination of the Palestinian artist Naji Al-Ali in London in 1987, the film flashes back to the stops that he went through in his life, starting from his displacement with his family to Lebanon, to his work in Kuwait, to his return to Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war.

Beirut, Oh Beirut

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.

Guitar of Love

Salwa is a poor young woman who sells grilled corn to people on one of the beaches of Lebanon,she falls in love with a guitarist she meets by chance, while looking for her mother and sister who got lost since she was young, and then strange coincidences begin to happen to her.

Women's Game

A police officer is assigned to investigate a mysterious murder. He goes undercover and starts following a girl, he suspects to be the killer. He discovers that behind the murder, is a woman who loved a man. He falls in love with the girl as the clues are pointing to her.

The Captive

A Hero's Return

A group of young athletes in the field of bodybuilding plan to achieve tournaments, but a girl intervenes among them in order to tear them apart, so they won't succeed. She pulls it off at first, and one of them walks away from his friends but a surprise changes the course of events.

Mr. Ayub

Mr. Ayoub is a music teacher who tutors a group of young girls. His life takes an adventurous turn when he meets Tawfiq and his mistress Lola, as Ayoub grows infatuated with Mona, Tawfiq's daughter.

Cats of Hamra Street

A group of hippies lives in Beirut, taking Al-Hamra Street as a spot for them and their adventures. Samy is one of their own who is trying to escape from his past and pushes his girl to live the same wasted life. In order to satisfy him, she agrees but pays a heavy price.

Cinema of War in Lebanon

In 1975, the Lebanese wars started when Maroun Bagdadi ended his first feature film "Beirutya Beirut". Did the war give an identity to Lebanese cinema? Productions of documentaries, action movies, actor films, co-productions, and emigration. Since 1975, the war has remained a major subject for feature fiIms shot in Lebanon. This is a history of stories about war and cinema.