Despite 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…

BLURAY
Main Feature: 1080p High definition Widescreen 2.40:1
Special feature: 1080p high definition
Audio: Arabic DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1. Arabic Dolby Digital 2.0
Movie Subtitles: French, English
DVD Release Date: December 2018

This box includes 15 films on 3 DVDs by filmmaker Jocelyne Saab.

-Les femmes Palestiniennes (1974)
-Le front du refus (1975)
-Le Liban dans la tourmente (1975)
-Les nouveaux croisés d'Orient (1975)
-Les enfants de la guerre (1976)
-Beyrouth, jamais plus (1976)
-Sud-Liban: histoire d'un village assiégé (1976)
-Pour quelques vies (1976)
-Le Sahara n'est pas à vendre (1977)
-Egypte: la cité des morts (1977)
-Lettre de Beyrouth (1978)
-Iran, l'utopie en marche (1981)
-Beyrouth, en ville (1982)
-Le bateau de l'exil (1982)

All Zones
Movie Subtitles: French, Arabic, English, Spanish
DVD Release Date: September 2024

This DVD box includes 3 documentaries by filmmaker Hadi Zaccak that depicts the situation in Lebanon after the July 2006 war through the eyes of several young Lebanese citizens.
'The war of peace' (2007), 'Shi’a echoes from Lebanon' (2007) and 'Sunni echoes from Lebanon' (2008) set out to capture the shades of political movements that we continue to live in till the present day.

Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: English, French
DVD Release Date: 2010
Recording: PAL / All Zones

A theatre director, specializing in working with disadvantaged and traumatized people, Zeina Daccache struggled to set up Lebanon's first prison-based drama project in the country's notorious Roumieh Prison.

For 15 months, 45 adult male inmates, some completely illiterate, found themselves working together to present an adaptation of the famous stage play '12 Angry Men', here re-named '12 Angry Lebanese'.
Through their new-found creative outlet, we witness the prisoners coalesce into a slick, professional ensemble.

The drama therapy sessions, the interviews with the inmates, the moments of crisis, the moments of joy, and the interaction with both Daccache and the external audience, convey an extraordinary message of hope, forgiveness and change.

In the course of their artistic journey, these “murderers, drug dealers and rapists” reveal kindness and faith in life.

Inspiring and honest, this account of the prisoners' journey demonstrates the efficacy of drama therapy and its positive effects on some of the most ostracized individuals in society.

Recording: PAL, All Zones
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
Released: 2009

Also by Zeina Daccache:
DVD: Scheherazade’s Diary.

Beirut Oh Beirut has been done as a graduation film; it’s Maroun Bagdadi's first feature, set against the backdrop of events between the first Israeli raid on Lebanese territories in 1968, and the death of Egyptian president Abdel-Nasser in 1970.

The film was screened on the eve of Lebanon’s civil war and appears to prophesize the looming conflict. It reconstructs the emergence of militant and resistance movements through the lives of individuals from different social and confessional backgrounds.
It is both an impossible love story an account of a country on the verge of war.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Release Date: 1975

More DVDs by director:
We're all for the Fatherland (Koullouna Lil Watan)

The film Bosta (Bus in Arabic), by popular French Lebanese filmmaker Philippe Aractingi, tells the story of seven former schoolmates who meet up again after 15 years, to drive across Lebanese regions in a rundown school bus, which they repaint and renew as a wound they are healing.

The group is trying to introduce a new blend of music in their native villages, a mix of the traditional dance, the Dabkeh, coupled with a techno beat; a mix that embodies this generation that grew up too fast. This group of friends tries to bring a modern twist to the past in a world that has lost all bearings.

The bus thus takes its passengers across Lebanon on an emotionally bumpy journey of self-discovery and re-acquaintance with the multiple identities of their country.

All Zones, PAL 16/9
Language: Arabic, French, Italian
Movie Subtitles: Arabic, French, English, Spanish
Release Date: 2007

In a small coastal town, Leba (Georges Khabbaz), a music instructor, marries his childhood sweetheart Lara. Medical tests show that his newborn has special needs. The town’s people are fast to reject little Ghadi. Leba and his friends must find a way to convince his neighbors to accept his young son. Their solution is genius, heartwarming and redemptive. By Lebanese film director Amin Dora.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Ghadi Movie Subtitles: French, English
Release Date: Theater: 2013, DVD: 2015

As he flees Lebanon again in July 2006, Franco Lebanese film director Philippe Aractingi realizes that, like him, his ancestors have been fleeing wars and massacres for five generations.

In a fresco where photos, archives and home videos of his children subtly interact, he tells the story of his family’s travels through the Levant. Heritages (Mirath) is a film about exile, memory and transmission, filled with emotion and honesty.

All Zones, PAL 16/9
Language: Arabic, French, Italian
Movie Subtitles: Arabic, French, English, Spanish
Release Date: 2014

More DVDs by director:
Bosta (L'Autobus)

2 DVDs.
La Vallée (2014) suivi de la Montagne (2010).
The Valley / The Mountain.
Al Wadi / Al Jabal

La Vallée:
Sur une route de montagne au Liban, un homme se relève d'un accident de voiture. Choqué et en sang, il erre jusqu'à un véhicule en panne et aide ses quatre occupants à le réparer.

Devenu amnesique, le groupe prend soin de lui et l'emmène dans une ferme barricadée de la vallée de la Bekaa, où l'activité n'est pas uniquement agricole.

Qui est cet homme sans passé? Un espion, un mécanicien, un docteur, une menace? Entre suspicion et attirance, ils essaieront de lui faire retrouver la mémoire.

La Montagne:
La nuit tombe sur Beyrouth. Fadi, un homme d'une quarantaine d'années, accompagné par un ami, se rend à l'aéroport. Il est supposé s'absenter pour un mois. Mais au lieu de prendre l'avion, il loue une voiture, quitte Beyrouth, prend l'autoroute du nord et s'engage sur une route montagneuse.

Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Recording: PAL / All Zones
DVDs Release Date: 2019

Despite 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.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
DVD Release Date: December 2018

60 years of the Contemporary History of Lebanon seen throughout the story of the Mercedes Ponton (the 180 model) and its German-Lebanese 'family' locally called 'Marcedes'.
Marcedes: the story of a car, a family, a country, by Lebanese film director Hady Zaccak.

Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: English/ French/ Spanish
Date of Production: 2011
DVD Release Date: 2015
Recording: PAL / All Zones

The Out of Life movie tells the gripping story of a French journalist taken hostage in war torn Beirut. As the man’s captivity period stretches, his dignity and moral fiber erode slowly but surely.

The film is based on the real-life experience of Roger Auque who was abducted in Beirut on the 13th of January 1987, and then released by the ‘Organization for Revolutionary Justice’ on the 27th of November 1987.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Release Date: 1991

The women inmates of Lebanon’s Baabda Prison mine the depths of personal experience and confront patriarchy as they prepare and present the first theatre performance staged inside an Arab women’s prison.

Filmed during and after the ten-month drama therapy/theatre project set up in 2012 in Baabda prison by Lebanese drama therapist and film director Zeina Daccache, this gripping and tragicomic documentary features the women inmates who, through their unprecedented theatre initiative entitled “Scheherazade in Baabda”, challenge societies that oppress women.

In the course of their artistic journey, these “murderers of husbands, adulterers and drug felons” reveal stories of domestic violence, traumatic childhood, failed marriage, forlorn romance and deprivation of motherhood that become the narratives of this self-revelatory film, with flamenco dance to boot.

The film journeys into the quotidian of prison life, follows the women storytellers as they rehearse for the show, and intermingles scenes from the live performance with testimonials and backstage antics.

The women of Baabda Prison speak for all female inmates behind bars in Lebanon just as they convey the plight of all women imprisoned by rigid and oppressive mentalities.

The Scheherazades of Baabda dare not only to reflect on their own wrongdoings and crimes but also to stand up before numerous audiences and bare their personal stories to heal their – and their community’s – wounds and express their sincere desire to change their lives.

In so doing, the women inmates hold up a mirror to Lebanese society, implicating us all in oppression that often leads to crime.

Recording: PAL, All Zones
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: English, French
Released: 2013

Also by Zeina Daccache:
DVD: 12 Angry Lebanese The Documentary

Zeina, a Lebanese woman living in Dubai, sends her son Karim to stay with her sister in Kherbet Selem – a village in the South of Lebanon – to save him from the bickering of the final stages of her divorce.

A few days later, war breaks out. Desperately worried, Zeina heads to Lebanon, via Turkey to find her son.

But because of the blockade, she cannot reach the port of Beirut until the day of the cease-fire. And only one taxi-driver – Tony – will take her to what is now the decimated South.

At first glance, the two are an unlikely match. Although both are originally from South Lebanon, Tony is a Christian whose brother lives in Israel, and Zeina is Shia… But what difference does it really make?

The quest for the missing child sends them on a journey through the war-ravaged South, where their experience of death and tragic loss eventually brings them together.

All Zones, PAL 16/9
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Release Date: 2006

The camera wanders through streets standing witness to a war that has destroyed a city and an entire nation.

Bagdadi goes to war against the Lebanese civil war, exploring different locations and situations in a country faced with its own demise.

The poetic text raises questions of life and death through contrasting images of violent death and the will to live.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Duration: 27 min
Release Date: 1978

Whispers follows the Lebanese poet Nadia Tueni (1935-1983) on a journey across different regions of war-torn Lebanon.

The film depicts the fall of a country struggling to survive and find hope. At every station, between sites filled with poetry and nostalgia for a bygone era, the poet’s dashed dreams and idealized vision of her country coincide with the director’s own.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Release Date: 1980

Hady follows his grandmother Henriette as she ages and crosses the centenarian milestone to reach 104 years.

He witnesses the transformation of her memory, her emigration from Lebanon to Brazil and the stories of love, children and suspended time.

104 WRINKLES is a journey about aging, memory and life.

Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: English, French
DVD Release Date: 2018
Recording: PAL / All Zones

Philippe Aractingi is compiling a collection of his early films, “Courts Métrages et Documentaires,” in which he shares, namely, Beirut of Stone and Memory: images of Beirut accompanied by Nadia Tueni’s poems (Gold Medal at the Jeux de la Francophonie, Paris and Jury’s Merit at the African and Creole Cinema Days, Montreal).

Also included are three movies which he directed for international television stations: The Dream of the Acrobat Child (France 3, B-SKYB, NDR), Grand Jury Award at the Beryte International Festival, Vol Libre (« Envoyé Spécial » France 2), Jury Award at the St Hilaire International Festival of Flight, Chemins de Femmes (« Le Jour du Seigneur » France 2), and La Vallée de Kadicha (« Faut Pas Rêver » France 3).

An entertaining compilation of 5 DVDs in a same box set comprising Bosta, Under the Bombs, Une Terre Pour un Homme, Ghassan Tueni’s last interview, 'Courts Métrages et Documentaires,' and exclusively, Through Mothers’ Eyes, an investigative 52’ documentary produced for “Envoyé Spécial,” that reveals the hidden power of those that we have always assumed to be submissive and on the sidelines. A film that remains alarmingly relevant.

All Zones, PAL

A transparent look at the life of historic leader Kamal Jumblatt (1917-1977) in a film filled with emotion.

This documentary was filmed on the occasion of the commemoration of Jumblatt’s death held at the UNESCO Palace.

It is an account of the man’s life in the public and political spheres that helps cement his place in his country’s collective memory.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Duration: 57 min
Release Date: 1977

Other DVD movie about Kamal Joumblat:
- Kamal Joumblat witness and martyr, by Hady Zaccak

We are All for the Fatherland. Koulloula lil Watan. By Lebanese film director Maroun Baghdadi.

This film gives an account of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon through meetings and interviews with common people and leading personalities from the south of the country.

In a satirical twist, We Are All for the Fatherland, mixes footage of the war and its ravages with cut scenes of young children trying to sing the Lebanese national anthem amidst armed conflict, military strategies and speeches.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Duration: 27 min
Release Date: 1979

All Zones, PAL
Release Date: 2006

Vol Libre au Liban, 18' (1990)
I had always dreamed of flying. In 1989, as I was fleeing the war, I did a paragliding internship in France. At that time, the sport was still in its early stages. When I returned to Lebanon, I realized that flying, or living a few moments of freedom, was not exactly an easy task. This is the story of Lebanon’s first paraglider, a black comedy that I share with you in an 18-minute film.

Beyrouth de Pierre et de Mémoire, 18' (1992)
En 1991, J'ai filmé les dernières images du centre ville de Beyrouth. Les poèmes de Nadia Tueni sont venus habiller ces images. Ou l'inverse qui sait?

Chemins de Femmes, 29' (1994)
A la fin de la guerre dite civile je suis parti à la rencontre de quatre femmes qui étaient en peine recherche et qui m'ont raconté leur appartenance au christianisme.

Le Rêve de l'Enfant Acrobate, 52' (1997)
Mustafa, jeune acrobate au Maroc, cherche l'agent qui pourra le sortir de sa vie de nomade. C'est pour ses yeux pleins de rêves que j'ai choisi de faire ce film.

La Vallée de Kadicha, 12' (1991)
En 1990 alors que tous les reportages sur le Liban diffusés en France ne parlaient que de la guerre j'ai été à la recherche du dernier ermite d'Orient dans la vallée de Kadicha.

All Zones, PAL 4/3
Language: French
Movie Subtitles: Arabic

This is a 5-DVD pack which includes Lebanese filmmaker Maroun Baghdadi's 7 Documentary films: War on war, Achoura, Kamal Jumblatt, Whispers, All For the Motherland, The Most Beautiful of All Mothers, The Story of a Village and a War.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English

This is a 5-DVD pack which includes 5 of Maroun Baghdadi's Fiction films: Beirut Ya Beirut, Ayyam, Little Wars, Out of Life, Lebanon: Land of Honey and Incense.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English

Kamal Joumblatt recounts the major events of his life until his assassination on the 16th of March 1977.

'Kamal Joumblatt witness and martyr' takes us on a global journey from Lebanon, all the way to India, following the footsteps of Kamal Joumblatt, the Founder of the PSP (Progressive Socialist Party), the Leader, the Rebel, the Reformist, the Thinker, the Poet, the spiritualist…

Kamal Joumblatt (1917-1977) becomes the last witness… of his own life. By Lebanese filmmaker Hady Zaccak.

Awards:
-Best Director, Best Music and Best Editing at the 3rd Lebanese Cinema Movie Guide Awards 2016.

-Special mention from the jury at the 18th Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts, Egypt 2016.

-Winner of the Francophone Trophy for the best feature documentary 2016.

Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: Arabic with English and French subtitles
Date of Production: 2015
DVD Release Date: 2015
Recording: All Zones / PAL

Other DVD movie about Kamal Joumblat:
- A Tribute to Kamal Jumblat, by Maroun Baghadi

By né.à Beyrouth..

-Notre Dame des Seins (André Chammas)
-The Tape (Marc Sayegh)
-An Army of Aunts (Wissam Charaf)
-Tomorrow 6:30 (Gilles Tarazi)
-After the Storm (Leila Kanaan)
-Lebanon in the Fall (Nadim Tabet)
-Beirut (Elie Dagher)
-Home movie #9

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: English
Duration: 120 min
Release Date: 2009

Lebanon the Land of Honey and Incense. Liban pays du miel et de l'encens.

Doctor Fournier arrives in Beirut as the civil war is raging. He finds himself with a colleague working in a hospital controlled by a Shiite militia and treating the injured.

Driven by his doctor’s oath, he crosses the demarcation line to treat Christian casualties of the ongoing clashes. This causes Muslims in his neighborhood to brand him a traitor.

He is kidnapped to be exchanged for a fighter captured by Christian militiamen. The film is part of the TV series *Médecins des hommes* (*Doctors of men*). It was considered the best film in the series.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Main Movie Subtitles: French, Arabic
Bonus Movie Subtitles: French, English
Release Date: 1987

Les petites guerres. On the eve of the Lebanese civil war in 1974, three characters’ little stories intertwine to make up the plot of Little Wars. Talal, son of a feudal lord, reluctantly steps into the shoes of a war chief after his father.

His love interests Souraya, who tries to support him and help him kidnap a businessman. Finally, Nabil is a photojournalist posing as a hero when all he really does is use the conflict to trade drugs.

Music by Gabriel Yared.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Release Date: 1981

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In 1991, the borders reopen in Lebanon. Between documentary and patchwork, this film addresses the issue of war and suffering through a different lens, the woman’s. And more specifically, that of the mother’s.

It reveals the hidden power of those that we have always assumed to be submissive and on the sidelines. These mothers who raised a same people, walking straight towards death.

This is the story of several women from very different religious communities. It is the story of the Druze who finds her son three years after his death, reincarnated in another village. It is the story of the Shiite who teaches her son to follow the path of conflict, and that of the Christian who must avenge her murdered son.

To see this film again today is to recognize the extent to which the ethical plurality it highlights is still of actuality.

All Zones, PAL 16/9
Language: French, English, Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English, Arabic
Release Date: 1991

For the first time ever, after 55 years, Lebanese comedian Samy Khayath opens his box with “TireRire”, a wonderful CD / DVD Set with 12 hours of laughter and entertainment (5 shows).

“Tire Rire” includes 4 vintage plays and the famous Golden Jubilee held at UNESCO Palace in 2010. Mostly in Lebanese with some French (Samy calls it “Franbanais”), his DVDs (plays filmed in 1980, 81, 82, 83 and the 2010 Jubile) as well as the 1978 CDs will carry you back to war times where, even under the bombs, comedy was at its best.

This is a testimony that history repeats itself. This is a unique rare and unprecedented collection not to be missed!

Features: 5 plays (4 DVDs + 2 CDs + 2 booklets).
Format: 16:9.
Color: PAL.
Zone Free (No Zone restrictions).
Language: Arabic (Lebanese) and some French.
Subtitles: Resumes automatically word for word the dialogue.
Date of Release: Dec 15, 2015.

The Most Beautiful of All Mothers.

This film is inspired by a song by Marcel Khalifeh based on a poem by Hassan Al Abdallah. Its starting point is a martyr of the Communist Action Organization (part of Lebanon’s National Front) and his mother’s pain.

It draws an intimate portrait of young idealists who dreamed of establishing a republic based on justice and egalitarianism in the first chapter of the civil war.

All Zones, PAL
Language: Arabic
Movie Subtitles: French, English
Release Date: 1978