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66 articles available in total starting from 18/05/2008. Last article published on 09/09/2025.

Lana Daher • Director of Do You Love Me

Interview: Lana Daher • Director of Do You Love Me

"In Lebanon we do have a lot of pain but we also have a lot of art, music and love"

VENICE 2025: The Lebanese helmer casts an eye over the fragmented historical, social, cultural and political landscapes of Beirut in her debut feature-length documentary  

09/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Do You Love Me

Review: Do You Love Me

VENICE 2025: Using only archival material, Lebanese director Lana Daher composes a vivid and multiform portrait of her beloved village martyred by too many wars  

08/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Cyril Aris • Director of A Sad and Beautiful World

Interview: Cyril Aris • Director of A Sad and Beautiful World

"I try to tell the story of Lebanon today and its ups and downs through the story of a couple with two different worldviews"

VENICE 2025: The Lebanese director talks to us about his debut fiction feature, a love story set against the backdrop of a deeply scarred country, Lebanon  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: A Sad and Beautiful World

Review: A Sad and Beautiful World

VENICE 2025: In his feature-length fiction debut, Cyril Aris tells a love story unfolding in parallel with the joys and deep sorrows of a continually changing Lebanon  

02/09 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Arbid shooting Love Conquers All

EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Arbid shooting Love Conquers All

Hiam Abbass and Mohamat Amine Benrachid lead the cast of the director’s new movie, produced by Easy Riders Films  

09/01 | Production | Funding | France/Lebanon/United Arab Emirates

Mathijs Poppe • Director of The Jacket

Interview: Mathijs Poppe • Director of The Jacket

“We are constantly projecting futures but also pasts, and we are trying to make sense of the world around us through fiction”

The Belgian director speaks about using a blend of documentary and fiction to create a story that reckons with the past, present and Palestinian hopes for the future  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: The Jacket

Review: The Jacket

Belgian director Mathijs Poppe’s documentary is a multilayered narrative tracking a symbolic garment through the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon  

22/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Seyfettin Tokmak • Director of Empire of the Rabbits

Interview: Seyfettin Tokmak • Director of Empire of the Rabbits

"I tried to show how brutal a man's world can be without women in a rural area of Turkey"

The Turkish filmmaker discusses his new feature, a daring boy's journey against the cruel entanglements of deception and disabilities of the adult world  

22/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

Review: Empire of the Rabbits

Review: Empire of the Rabbits

A boy growing up in extreme poverty defies his father and the whole corrupt system in Turkish filmmaker Seyfettin Tokmak's new feature  

15/11/2024 | Black Nights 2024 | Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for IDFA Luminous title The Jacket

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for IDFA Luminous title The Jacket

Mathijs Poppe’s documentary is a portrait of a Palestinian man who lives in exile with his family in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut  

22/10/2024 | IDFA 2024

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