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- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsZain Al RafeeaYordanos ShiferawBoluwatife Treasure BankoleWhile serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.
- DirectorHenry BarakatStarsFairuzElie ChoueiriBerj FazlianDuring the war in 1914, the Ottoman Empire forbade wheat to enter the lands of Lebanon in order to make the Lebanese people starve. In addition to that, the Ottoman Empire was taking men to work for free in forgotten places. From those men, Abdo; Adla's fiancé, who was taken also to work for free, in a place where persecution rules. Adla decides to look for her fiancé who hasn't returned to the village yet. But her decision has a cost that leads her to unpredictable situations.
- DirectorAssad FouladkarStarsBernadette HodeibTalal JurdiRenée DickZiyad and Maryam are a happy young couple in Lebanon, yet after three years of marriage they remain childless. Due to intense family pressure, they try everything they can but eventually learn that Maryam is infertile. Ziyad repeatedly reassures her of his undying love, but family and social pressure, particularly his evil, meddling mother, gradually poison their happy relationship until the love, enthusiasm and humour of their early days soon take a tragic turn.
- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsAdel KaramKamel El BashaCamille SalamehAfter an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsRami DoueiriNaamar SahliMohamad ChamasIn April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game. His mother wants to leave; his father refuses. Tarek spends time with May, a Christian, orphaned and living in his building. By accident, Tarek goes to an infamous brothel in the war-torn Olive Quarter, meeting its legendary madam, Oum Walid. He then takes Omar and May there using her underwear as a white flag for safe passage. Family tensions rise. As he comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsClaude Baz MoussawbaaNadine LabakiYvonne MaaloufA group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.
- DirectorLucien BourjeilyStarsLaeticia SemaanNadim Abou SamraSamira SarkisAs all the children and their spouses gathers for Easter's dinner, conversation flows. When something bad happens, everyone is on edge, especially Josephine, and Serge who wants to uncover the truth!
- DirectorAmin DoraStarsGeorges KhabbazLara RainEmmanuel KhairallahGhadi is different from other kids; could he be an angel? His father Leba, along with his teammates, tricks the town into believing so.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFairuzNasri ShamseddineJoseph AzarIn a peaceful village, the mayor, seeing that the population is bored with tranquility, invents the mystical figure of Rajeh, and tells stories to villagers about the exploits of Rajeh, who kills and maims and steals. One day the mayor (Nasri Shamseddine) tells the villagers that Rajeh is heading to the village itself and they better be careful. Two smart men notice that the mayor was lying and that it is all his imagination. So they go on making good on the fictitious person and steal money and assault the mayor in the dark saying that they were Rajeh. Eventually, an old man with the name of Rajeh arrives in the village, amid public fears. Then it became obvious that Rajeh was merely a seller of rings for weddings and he wanted to marry his son to Fairuz the nephew of the mayor. The two bad guys willingly go to jail for making use of the mayor's joke.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsNadine LabakiJoanna MoukarzelGisèle AouadA romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.
- DirectorShady HannaStarsRola BeksmatiJunaid ZeineldineAbboudy MallahThe romp revolves around a dinner party hosted by the young and vicacious Nayla to introduce Fares, the love of her life, to Silvio, her new fiancé.
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsNada Abou FarhatGeorges KhabbazRawia ElchabIn the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi cab driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.
- DirectorMir-Jean Bou ChaayaStarsAlain SaadehFouad YammineWissam FaresIntending to smuggle drugs across the borders, a small-time Lebanese drug-dealer slyly manipulates public opinion with the help of an underrated filmmaker.
- DirectorNoor GharzeddineStarsTess HarrisonMarwa KhalilNadim DeaibesA millennial American girl befriends a Lebanese housewife and disrupts her ordered life; one night they become accidental partners-in-crime.
- DirectorSophie BoutrosStarsJulia KassarAli El KhalilBassam KousaTherese, the mayor's wife in a Lebanese village, joyfully prepares for an overnight visit of her daughter's suitor and his parents. She excitedly shares the happy news of the engagement with pictures of her beloved brother who was killed by a Syrian bomb 20 years ago and is still bizarrely present in every corner of her house. Only when the long-awaited guests are at her doorstep, she discovers they are Syrian; this engagement will only happen over Therese's dead body!
- DirectorOualid MouanessStarsNadine LabakiMohamad DalliRodrigue SleimanDuring the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, an 11-year-old boy tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her while their teachers try to hide their fear of the conflict.
- DirectorMounia AklStarsYumna MarwanNadine LabakiSaleh BakriA couple decide to leave the toxic pollution of their home city of Beirut, hoping to build a utopian existence in a pristine home in the mountains.
- DirectorJoana HadjithomasKhalil JoreigeStarsRim TurkiManal IssaPaloma VauthierThe lives of three women are connected by a box that resurfaces containing notebooks, photographs and audiotapes.
- DirectorLara SabaStarsAlae HamoudGhida NouriCarole HajjThree protagonists, one city... Coming from different backgrounds, they pass each other but they never meet, though, the effect of one incident will drastically alter the lives of the three of them! Three characters, caught at a moment when their lives fell over, in just a matter of seconds... knocked down by a chain of other's actions/reactions...
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsNagham AbboudRafik Ali AhmadBshara AtallahDespite living in a doomed country that hangs by a thread, Joud, a handsome sound engineer meets and falls in love with strong and free-spirited Rana. The young lovers, from completely different social and religious backgrounds, are drawn closer to each other, but a drastic turn of events gets between them and Rana suddenly slips away. As her parents forbid Joud from seeing her, the young man determined to see her again, finds new means of communicating with her by convincing Marwa, her sister, to download his voice messages and secretly play them to Rana
- DirectorMaroun BagdadiStarsEzzat El AlailiMireille MaaloufJoseph Bou NassarBeirut Oh Beirut (1975) follows four young Lebanese after the defeat of Lebanon by Israeli forces in the Six Day War of 1967.
- DirectorShady HannaStarsGhida MajzoubDori Al-SamaraniWalid ArakjiYalla 3a2belkon Chabeb shows us through the eyes of men how hard nowadays it is to have a proper relationship, based on love respect, principles and values.
- DirectorRanda Chahal SabagStarsFlavia BecharaMaher BsaibesRanda AsmarA young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. She is given in marriage to her cousin on the other side of the border. As Lamia crosses the barbed wire she also passes from childhood into adulthood, as brutal as our countries and the events that are to follow.
- DirectorMazen KhaledStarsCarol AbboudHadi Bou AyashMoustafa FahsA young man's tragic death at Beirut's seaside causes his friends to grapple with loss and to partake in his community's rites and ceremonies, exposing the city's schisms and its society's fault lines.
- DirectorPhilippe AractingiStarsRodney El HaddadNadine LabakiNada Abou FarhatFifteen years after a traumatic explosion in his native Beirut, Kamal Maf'ouss returns from France, where he was nationalized and become a composer-choreographer. He reassembles youth friends from his late pa's multicultural school. They pimp a decommissioned school bus to tour the country in preparation of Lebanon's annual festival of the choral dance-song genre Debka. Opinions clash on their modern, cosmopolitan version of a traditional genre, even among their friends and family, while other personal problems complicate matters further.
- DirectorAssad FouladkarStarsDarine HamzeRodrigue SleimanZeinab Hind KhadraFour tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.
- DirectorDanielle ArbidStarsMarianne FeghaliRawia ElchabLaudi ArbidLina, 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, but tests the girl's limits when she asks her to help plot her escape from the city.
- DirectorLayal M. RajhaStarsTakla ChamounZeina MakkiLorraine KodeihIn modern day Lebanon, in a country divided between those who have too little and those who have too much, three women try to defy their social labeling and incapability.
- DirectorJoana HadjithomasKhalil JoreigeStarsHanane AbboudFadi Abi SamraAnne-Marie AfifLa Maison Rose (The Pink House) is an old mansion in Beirut. It is the place where the Nawfal family found shelter during the Civil War and in which they feel good. Unfortunately for them, their immediate environment is rapidly changing as many of the old shell-ridden buildings are torn down to be replaced by new construction projects. When Mattar, the owner of the Pink House, decides to sell it to make room for a large commercial center, the residents of the neighborhood become divided between the shopkeepers and businessmen in favor of modernity and the families being evicted against the project for sentimental reasons.
- DirectorSamer DaboulStarsRudy MoarbesAli RhayemJad HadidA modern tale of friendship and love in Lebanon today. It is also a bittersweet reflection on the social struggles of the after war generation.
- DirectorWissam SmayraStarsNadine LabakiMona ZakiEyad NassarFollows the story of seven friends who stay together for dinner and decide to play a game that involves them placing their cell phones on the dinner table, and accepting to share every call, text and voice message as it comes.
- DirectorSam AndraosHassan JaberStarsAntoinette AkikiJoseph AzouryNada Abou FarhatThe issues of extremism and social prejudice through the scope of sexism and gender equality.
- DirectorElie KhaliféStarsWalid ArakjiNebal AraqjiTania AssiSingle, Married, Divorced (Yalla 3a2belkon) is a social comedy about four women in their late 30's who have to face the pressure of the society for being singles.
- DirectorJoe Bou EidStarsJoy KaramChady TinehCarol AbboudIt was the summer of 82, when a priest, about to be ordained, was exhausted by temptations and an arrogant girl felt passionately in love... A sifted memory and a personal history of a narrator who tells with nostalgia and poetry the meeting of his parents until their marriage...
- DirectorElie F. HabibStarsKhitam Al LahhamJamal AwarCarlos AzarIn a remote and poor village, three girls decide to change their destiny. They plan to rub a truck assuming its loaded with cash.. but what they never imagined is found in the truck and this changes their village and own lives forever.
- DirectorHenri BargesHenri BargèsStarsDarine HamzeAlexandra KahwagiGabriel YammineJenny was made for love and Lana for gambling. In this old-fashioned country, Lebanon, women have no say. Defying everyone and everything they will fight for their freedom whatever the cost.
- DirectorElie F. HabibStarsJessy AbdoAbeer AounMaguy Bou GhosnA 33 year old Mentally impaired girl leaves her home for the first time alone, with a bag of one million dollars in cash.
- DirectorNebal AraqjiStarsDori Al-SamaraniWalid ArakjiToni BaroodWanted is a very human comedy about four old people who run away from a nursing home in the name of love and solidarity.
- DirectorElie F. HabibStarsMaguy Bou GhosnCarlos AzarChristian El ZoghbySamar (Maguy Bou Ghosn) and her two brothers are a group of loser bandit outlaws who make their living out of burglaries and armed robberies. One day they find themselves obliged to volunteer in the Civil Defense in order to execute a big robbery, however Samar falls in love with the Chief (Carlos Azar), after which the events take a hilarious yet thrilling route that makes the ending unpredictable and full of suspense.
- DirectorElie F. HabibStarsJessy AbdoMaguy Bou GhosnChristian El ZoghbyMaya struggles with the effects of the caramel that gave her the ability to hear men's thoughts.
- DirectorShady HannaStarsIlyas AbboodEsam AbdulnoorShaif AntwanAs Hicham Haddad goes to jail under false accusations, he's in fear of losing his top hit lebanese talk show. When he discovers that his bestfriend and cohost Jad bou Karam backstabbed him and took over the show, he and his other cohosts try and reclaim it. In comdeic hilarious shenanigans, the story follows the battle between the two lebanese stars.
- DirectorMazen KhaledStarsWissam FaresChristine GanniWafa'a Celine HalawiA mother moves in with her thirty-something son, Ramzi, and his life-long friend, Tarek. This new situation precipitates a series of events and realizations that lead the two men to reexamine their relationship. Their attempt to protect their bubble will bring them closer together as they struggle against social and family pressure, taboo and conflict.