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Cinema of Lebanon

Thecinema of Lebanon,according to film critic and historian Roy Armes, is the only other cinema in the Arabic-speaking region, beside Egypt's, that could amount to a national cinema.[7]Cinema in Lebanon has been in existence since the 1920s,[8]and the country has produced more than 500 films.[9]

Cinema of Lebanon
City MallBeirut
No.ofscreens154 (2019)[1]
• Per capita4.7 per 100,000 (2009)[2]
Main distributorsHaddad & Co
Italia Film
Fathalla[3]
Produced feature films (2015)[4]
Total31
Fictional17 (56%)
Animated1 (1%)
Documentary14 (42%)
Number of admissions (2010)[5]
Total2,794,708
National films16,666 (0.49%)
Gross box office (2006)[6]
Total£L48.4 million
National films£L2 million (4.1%)

While there has been steady increase in film production since the end of theLebanese Civil War,[10]the number of films produced each year remains relatively small in comparison to what it used to be in the 1960s, and the industry remains heavily dependent on foreign funding, mainly European.[11]The industry also remains reliant on international box office revenues due to the limited size of the domestic market.[12]

Despite that, local films have enjoyed a degree of local and international success. Ziad Doueiry'sThe Insultwas nominated for an Academy Award forBest Foreign Language Film.[12]Nadine Labaki'sthree features have been screened at theCannes Film Festival,starting withCaramelin the Directors' Fortnight.[13]Her second featureWhere Do We Go Now?was screened inUn Certain Regardand later won thePeople's Choice Awardat theToronto International Film Festivalwhile her third feature,Capernaum,was nominated for aPalme D'Orand an Academy Award forBest Foreign Language Film.[14]

History

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The history of film in Lebanon goes back to the 1890s.[15]Two years after theLumière Brotherspublicly projected their first film in December 1895 (Paris, France), they began sending traveling representatives to tour different countries to show their movies. One of the cities that they visited was Lebanon's capital city, Beirut.[15]Several years later, in 1909, the first movie theater was opened in the same city by thePathé Frères.These events helped cultivate a film-viewing culture into the country.[15]The first Lumiere operator who went to Lebanon was Alexandre Promio.

French Mandate

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A sharp increase in the number of theaters was observed between 1923 and 1929.[16]By the end of the 1920s, cinemas were common in Beirut, and some were used as a place for political gatherings. For example, in 1925, the Communist Party met at the Crystal Cinema in Beirut.[17]Cinemas had become so popular that in 1931, students marched in a protest, demanding that prices of movie tickets be lowered.[17]To compete against Hollywood, France decreed that all American films that were being imported to Lebanon be dubbed into French.[18]

The first local film,The Adventures of Elias Mabruk,was made in 1929.[19]It was a silent film, directed by Jordano Pidutti.[20]Pidutti was an Italian immigrant who worked as a chauffeur for theSursock familybefore devoting his life to film.[21]His first film,The Adventures of Elias Mabruktells the story of a Lebanese emigrant who returns to Lebanon after a long absence in America in search of his family.[22]This tale of an emigrant's homecoming, captured nostalgic feelings in a country of emigrants and would become a recurrent theme in Lebanese cinema.[23]Jordano Pidutti's second film wasThe Adventures of Abu Abed.[24]The comedy is considered the first film made with Lebanese funding.[19]The financier was Rachid Ali Chaaban, who was also the star of the film.[25][26]

Lebanese women, likeAssia DagherandMary Queeny,played pioneering roles inEgyptian cinema.In Lebanon, Herta Gargour, who managed the film studio, Luminar Films, is credited with establishing filmmaking in Lebanon after the silent era.[27]In the Ruins of Baalbeck(1936), which was produced by Luminar Films,[27]was the first sound film.[28]It was a hit with audiences and profitable.[29]The film, which was directed by Julio De Luca and Karam Boustany, depicted the love story of a local prince who falls in love with a foreigner.[23]The film is considered the first Arab film produced entirely in an Arab country and featuring theLebanese dialect.[30]

Ali Al-Ariss became the first Lebanese-born to direct a film on his own when he madeThe Rose Sellerin 1940, which was followed byPlanet of the Desert Princess[25]

Documentaries were also being made during this period, but they were heavily censored by the French.[18]

Post-Independence

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After Lebanon gained its independence from France, filmmakers began to examine local themes, especially rural life and folklore.[31]During the post-independence period, Lebanon witnessed an economic boom that made its capital,Beirut,the financial center of the eastern Mediterranean.[32]Lebanon's economic success, along with the presence of 38 banks and its open, multi-cultural and liberal society, made the country an alternative production choice to Egypt, which was at the time the center of filmmaking in the Arabic-speaking world.[33]Additionally, "Lebanon had the region's best technical facilities" for film production.[34]Fully equipped studios were set up in 1952, such as Haroun Studio owned by Michel Haroun and Al-Arz Studio[35]

For the first half of the twentieth century, Lebanese cinema was very closely associated with Egyptian cinema.[36]In addition to exporting numerous Lebanese actors and actresses, such asNour Al HodaandSabah,belly dancers like Badia Massabni and producers likeAssia Dagher,Lebanese distributors monopolized export of Egyptian film from 1930s – 1970s.[37]

The first Lebanese film to be featured In Selection atCannes Film FestivalGeorges Nasser'sIla Ayn?(English Title: Where To?) in 1958.[38]Despite its success abroad and having been screened at numerous film festivals, such as in Moscow and Beijing, the movie theaters in Lebanon hesitated to screen the film, and it only received a limited screening in Cinema Opera.[39]For its sixty-year anniversary, the film was screened again in its restored print version as part of the Cannes Classics events in 2017.[40]George Nasser's work has been more appreciated in recent years, and the filmmaker, who taught at theLebanese Academy of Fine Artshas been showered with accolades, including at the Tripoli Film Festival, which was held in his honor in 2017.[41]

Co-productions with Egypt and Syria were common in this period, which was considered the "Golden Age" of the Lebanese film industry.[31]Additionally, Lebanese producers from 1945 up to 1951 played an influential role in the first stages of production of Iraqi cinema.[42]

The Golden Age

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The film industry continued to prosper in the 1960s. AfterGamal Abdel Nassernationalized the film industry in Egypt in 1963, many private producers, distributors and directors, includingYoussef Chahine,moved to Lebanon.[43]The migration of film production to Beirut ushered a Golden Age, making Lebanon the film set for almost all Egyptian movies and establishing the Lebanese film industry as the second largest in the Arab world.[44]Beirut rivaled Cairo's dominance of Arab filmmaking, and even briefly replaced it as the center for Arab filmmaking;[45]however, films produced in the sixties, for the most part, lacked a sense of national identity and were merely commercial films, targeting a pan-Arab audience.[31]For instance, Lebanese filmmaker, Mohammed Selmane made a series of Bedouin-themed films, likeBedouin in Paris(1964) andBedouin in Rome(1965), both starringSamira Tewfikand targeting not only local but also Syrian, Iraqi, Jordanian and Gulf audiences.[46]Mohamed Selmane, who was trained in Egypt and returned to Lebanon to make 30 films in 25 years, was one of the most successful directors of this period.[31]

The musicals of theRahbani Brothersthat starredFairuzwere an exception to the films that lacked a national identity. The Rahbani films were centered around nostalgic themes of life inMount Lebanonvillages.[47]Nostalgia was a common theme in Lebanese film since 1929.[23]While many films in the sixties were filmed in the Egyptian vernacular to cater to the large Egyptian market, the Rahbani films were filmed in the Lebanese dialect.[48]The Seller of Rings(Arabic: بياع الخواتم) (1965), set in a village and displaying folkloristic elements, was an adaption of one of their operettas to the screen.[43]Another Rahbani film,Safar Barlik,which was set in 1912, depicted Lebanon's struggle against the Ottoman occupation. The film became a staple rerun on Lebanese television, especially on Independence Day.[49]

Giuseppe Vincenti launched Italia Film in Beirut in 1962, turning it into one of the region’s biggest independent film distributors, and in 1993 becoming Disney’s key West Asian partner.[50]

There were other exceptions like the auteur films of George Nasser and Youssef Maalouf. Georges Nasser's second feature,The Small Strangerwas also selected for Cannes in 1962.[40]Youssef Maalouf adapted to filmKahlil Gibran'snovel,The Broken Wingsin 1962.[51]Prints of the filmThe Broken Wingswere believed to have been destroyed during the war, but one was found after the war stored in a church, and the film, starring stage actress Nidal Al-Askhar, was restored.[52]

Lebanon became a filming location for international productions. For example, in 1965,Val Guest'sWhere the Spies Are,starringDavid NivenandFrançoise Dorléac,was filmed in Beirut.[53]Twenty-Four Hours to Kill,[54]starringMickey Rooney,andSecret Agent Fireball,starringRichard Harrison,were also filmed in Beirut the same year.[54]The following year in 1966, the German director, Manfred R. Köhler, filmed his film,Agent 505: Death Trap in Beirut.George Lautner'sLa grande sauterellewas also filmed in Beirut in 1967.[55]Rebus,starringAnn-Margretwas filmed on location at theCasino du Libanin 1969. WhileHoneybaby, Honeybabywas shot in 1974 in Beirut, the producers ofThe Man with the Golden Gun,which was partially set in Beirut, decided not to film in the Lebanese capital due to the burgeoning political problems.[53]

In 1965,UNESCOestablished the Arab Cinema Liaison Center[56]at the National Cinema Center in Beirut as a regional hub for linking cinema activities across the Arab world.[25]Beirut hosted the first international film festival in the Arab world in 1971.[31]Until the mid-1970s, the film industry in Lebanon was flourishing with market appeal that extended to neighboring Arabic-speaking countries as the films included plenty of Egyptian film stars,[57]such asParis and Lovein 1972, starringSalah ZulfikarandSabah.[58]Lebanon was producing "a string of sexually indulgent films" such asCats of Hamra Street[59]andThe Guitar of Lovein 1973,[60]starringGeorgina Rizk,the Lebanese beauty queen who won Miss Universe in 1971.[61]In the 1970s, cinema attendance in Lebanon was the highest among Arabic-speaking countries.[62]

Heiny Srourbecame not only the first Lebanese and Arab woman to have her film in competition at the1974 Cannes Film Festival,[63]but her documentary filmThe Hour of Liberation Has Arrivedwas actually the first film by any female filmmaker to be screened at the festival.[64]

Civil War

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Prior to the civil war, 161 films, mostly commercial melodramas, were produced in Lebanon and exported to various Arab countries, but when the civil war began, film production decreased tremendously.[65]

Despite the war, there was an "emergence of a new wave of Lebanese filmmakers – fostering, unusually, equal numbers of women and men".[57]The female filmmakers, who emerged during this period, made highly acclaimed and internationally renowned films.[66]Some of the filmmakers who emerged during this period were "Maroun Baghdadi,Jocelyne Saab,Borhane Alaouié,Heiny Srour,Randa Chahal Sabag"and Jean Chamoun.[67]In the 1970s, film themes in Lebanon were concentrated around the political conflicts that the country was undergoing.[62]Displacement was also a recurrent theme as evident in Borhane Alaouie'sBeirut, the Encounter(1981).[68]Films of this period were characterized by a lack of closure, reflective of the seemingly endless war at the time.[69]

One of the most important directors to emerge during this period was Maroun Baghdadi. According toLina Khatib,author ofLebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond,Baghdadi's films were "considered the cornerstone of Lebanese cinema".[70]Maroun Baghdadi madeLittle Wars(1982) with aid provided by the American filmmaker, Francis Coppola.[71]The film was screened in theUn Certain Regardsection at the1982 Cannes Film Festival.[72]The film also screened at New York Film Festival on 2 October 1982.[73]

Documentaries by filmmakers like Jocelyne Saab who "adopted a mainly journalistic style" also developed rapidly and successfully during this period.[57]Lebanese and Palestinian documentaries produced in Lebanon during the 1970s caused a surge of documentary production across the Arab world.[7]These documentaries contributed to the development of feature film production in the early eighties.[7]

Many filmmakers from this era, such as Jocelyne Saab, Jean Chamoun, Randa Chahal Sabbag, and Maroun Baghdadi settled in France due to the prolonged conflict in Lebanon.[74]

Beirut: The Last Home Movieis a 1987 documentary film that was directed byJennifer Foxand shot on location at the historicBustrosmansion in Beirut. The documentary, which told the story of one of Lebanon's wealthiest families, was awarded the Excellence In Cinematography Award and won the Grand Jury Prize Documentary at the 1988 Sundance Film Festival.[75]

Despite the war, Lebanon submitted a film for the first time for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film whenPromise of Love(1978) an Armenian-language film by Sarky Mouradian was submitted to the51st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.[76]

In addition to the wave of festival films and documentaries, a series of commercial films, mostly mimicking actionB moviesfrom Hollywood, were made in the early 1980s.[77]Prominent directors such as Youssef Charafeddine and Samir El-Ghoussaini aspired for escapism in their films to take their audiences out of the context of the war.[78]Films such asThe Last Passage(1981),The Decision(1981), andThe Leap of Death(1982) were popular because they depicted a society free of war where law and order actually existed.[66]Other commercial films, likeGhazl Al-Banat,incorporated the war in the narrative.[66]The era of commercial film production ended with theIsraeli war on Lebanon.[66]

Post-War Revival

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After the war, Beirut reemerged as one of the centers of mass media production in the Arab world.[79]While media production was concentrated around television, there were attempts to revive the film industry in Lebanon, especially by fresh graduates of Lebanese film schools. While filmmaking schools are a rarity in the region, by the mid-1990s, six of Beirut's universities were offering degrees in cinema and television and that attracted an influx of students from Arab countries who chose to receive some or all of their media training in Lebanon.[80]Financing of film production in Lebanon in this period was mainly dependent on foreign support, both European and from the Lebanese diaspora.[80]

The civil war was a major theme for Lebanese filmmakers since 1975, and this trend continued in the early post-war era where films continued to be affected thematically by the war.[81]Films made after the war had a common theme of returning to the war setting and dealing with trauma common to post-conflict societies.[82]

Many films, such as Jocelyne Saab's experimental film,Once Upon a Time in Beirut,examined the destruction that was left after the war.[83]Maroun Baghdadi's BeyrouthHors la Viewon the Special Jury Prize at Canned in 1991.[84]Other's like Jean-Claude Codsi'sHistoire d'un retoureexamined the issue of returning to the country after years of exile and war.[85]In 1994, Codsi's film won the jury award at theFestival international du film Francophonede Namur in Belgium.[86]

In 1997, Youssef Chahine's French-produced film,Destiny,was shot on location in Lebanon, including the historic mountain town of inBeiteddine.

While many films produced in the 1990s were hits at international festivals, Lebanese viewers were not drawn to the mainly war-themed films. An exception wasWest Beirut(1998), which was a local and an international hit. It was not only the first Lebanese film, but also the first Arabic-language film to have general release in America.[87]The film, that received worldwide attention, was the first Lebanese film that the post-war generation in Lebanon actually saw in cinemas, and it ushered a new era in Lebanese filmmaking that historian, Lina Khatib calls a renaissance.[88]

Renaissance in the 21st century

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While there is no government initiatives and public sector support for cinema in Lebanon, the private sector with companies such as Abbout, Orjouane Productions, The Attic, Né à Beyrouth and Boo Pictures have created an ecosystem for independent film production, albeit dependent on regional funding and international co-productions, especially from Europe.[89]

A mélange of local issues and Western aesthetics characterized this period of Lebanese filmmaking.[80]Films in this period gained domestic appeal where many films were not only commercially successful as evident in box-office sales ofBosta,[90][91]Caramel,[92]Stray Bullet,andWhere Do We Go Now?[93]but also were able to compete with imported, American films. Funding of films remained reliant on European organizations, such asFonds Sud Cinémain France andOrganisation Internationale de la Francophonie.[94]Philippe Aractingi'sBostais one of the few films that was completely funded locally.

2000s

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Ghassan Salhab'sTerra Incognito(2002) screened in Un Certain Regard in Cannes.[95]In 2003,Randa Chahal'sThe Kiteexamined the issue of families separated due to the occupied territories in southern Lebanon. Her film won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.[96]

Also in 2003, Georges Schoucair returned to Lebanon after studying film in France and established Abbout Productions, the country's first post-war production house, which has become Lebanon's "foremost production house and one of the most prominent companies for art-house films in the region".[97]

By 2004, film production was on the increase with four fiction and two documentaries produced.[98]Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige'sThe Perfect Day(2005) examined the social implications of political kidnappings that happened during the war.[85]Ghassan Salhab'sThe Last Man(2006) represented the cultural memory of the war from the eyes of a vampire protagonist caught in limbo between life and death.[82]Zozo(2005) by Josef Fares follows the life of a young boy and his journey to flee the war to Sweden.[99]New themes that did not necessary deal with the issue of war emerged, likeDanielle Arbid'sIn the Battlefields(2005) that critiqued patriarchal society. Filmmakers began to examine the postwar context rather than living in or surviving the war.[100]Michel Kammoun'sFalafel(2005) about disillusioned youth in post-war Beirut premiered in 2006 at Cinema Days of Beirut, a festival which was not cancelled despite the Israeli bombardment of the capital as a sign of "cultural resistance".[101]

Short film production, especially by the graduates of the film schools in Lebanon, was also on the increase and receiving local and international attention. Hany Tamba'sAfter Shavewon the César Award for best short film in 2006.[102]

2007 was an important year for Lebanese filmmaking when two female directors,Nadine LabakiandDanielle Arbidpresented their films at the Cannes Film Festival. Labaki presentedCaramelwhile Arbid presentedA Lost Man.[38]A Lost Manis possibly the most sexually graphic film ever made by an Arab director.[103]Caramelenjoyed an international release, including in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Argentina.[104]

2010s

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According to research conducted by Fondation Liban Cinema, "The film industry in Lebanon has seen a significant growth over the last four years, with 31 movies produced in 2014, compared to just four a decade ago."[105]Ghassan Salhab'sThe Mountain,which was produced by Abbout Productions, had its international premiere during the Doha-Tribeca Film Festival.[106]

2010
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In 2010, 11 films were produced in Lebanon.[105]Muriel Abourouss won the best director of photography award for Georges Hachem'sStray Bulletat theFestival international du film Francophonede Namur in Belgium.[107]Vatche Boulghour gian filmed on location inBourj Hammoud,The Fifth Columna short film in Western Armenian dialect that won the third place Cinéfondation Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.[108]

Ok, Enough, GoodbyebyRania Attieh and Daniel Garciawas shot on location in Tripoli, Lebanon in 2010. The film tied with Delphine and Muriel Coulin'sRagazzefor the Special Jury Award ex-aequo at the Torino Film Festival in 2011.[109]

Also in 2010,Carlos,aCanal+production that starred Édgar Ramírez as well as a handful of Lebanese stars such as Razane Jammal, Rodney El Haddad, Antoine Balabane,Ahmad Kaabour,Talal El-Jordi and Badih Abou Chakra was shot on location in Lebanon.[110]Carlos,which screened out of competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival won the 2010 Golden Globe award for the Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television.[111]

2011
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Increase in film production was evident in 2011 with 24 movies produced.[112]Nadine Labaki'sWhere Do We Go Now?won the Prix Francois Chalais at Cannes.[113]The film also won the people's choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival as well as the audience award at theFilms from the SouthFestival inOslo,Norway.[114]Sony Pictures Classics acquired the American rights to the film.[115]The film was Lebanon's choice to compete in the Academy Award's "Best Foreign-Language Film" category.[115]The film also won the Byarad d'Or at theFestival international du film Francophonede Namur in Belgium[116]and the Doha Tribeca Film Festival's Best Narrative Film award.[117]

Circumstance,a film by Maryam Keshavarz that explored homosexuality in modern Iran, was filmed entirely on location in Beirut.[118]

In the summer of 2011, the city of Beirut participated in the48 Hour Film Projectfor the first time where 24 teams competed.[119]Cyril Aris won the Best Film category for his short, "Anoesis," which will be Beirut's entry in Filmapalooza 2012, the final festival for the 2011 48 Hour Film Project.[119][120][121]

Danielle Arbid's filmed her third feature,Beirut Hotel,[122]which had a world premiere at the 64th Locarno Film Festival in August 2011.[123]

Mounir Maasri'sRue Huvelin,which was set in 1990, told the story of sevenSaint Joseph Universitystudents from Beirut'sRue Huvelinduring the Syrian occupation of Lebanon.[124]Né à Beyrouth produced the film.[124]

Jean-Claude Codsi filmed his second feature,A Man of Honor,which was produced by Michel Ghosn and premiered at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival on 28 October 2011.[125]

Beirut Kamikaze,an Experimental/Documentary by Christophe Karabache was released in cinema (Paris) on 16 November 2011.

Also in 2011, Celine Abiad's Beiroots Productions presented a different perspective of Mediterranean filmmaking by producing and experimental surrealist film (5.1 Dolby surround), shot in 35mm and fully produced in Lebanon:A Play Entitled Sehnsucht,written and directed by Badran Roy Badran. The film was picked up for international distribution at Cannes, by Albany Films International, a company dedicated to the promotion of art house and indie films from gifted and promising directors.[126][127]

Documentary filmmaking was also present in 2011. Rania Stephan won "Best Documentary Filmmaker" at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival forThe Three Disappearances ofSoad Hosny.[128]It's All in Lebanon,a documentary film directed by Wissam Charaf and produced by Né à Beyrouth Production, premiered at DIFF in 2011. Hady Zaccak's Marcedes screened at the Marché du Film. It received several awards, including Best Documentary at the International Federation of Film Critics at the Dubai International Film Festival and the Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel Award for Best Long Film at Al-Jazeera International Documentary Festival.[129]

Thirteen feature and short films were premiered at DIFF in 2011, including Danielle Arbid'sBeirut Hotel,Youcef Joe Bou Eid'sTannoura Maxi,Daniel Joseph'sTaxi Ballad,Simon El Habre'sGate #5,Hady Zaccak'sMarcedes,Rami Nihawi'sYamo,Christina Foerch Saab'sChe Guevara Died in Lebanon,Tamara Stepanyan's19 February,Wajdi Elian'sA Place to Go,Rodrigue Sleiman and Tarek El Bacha'sNice to Meet You,Aseel Mansour'sUncle Nashaat,and Nadim Mishlawi'sSector Zero.[130]

2012
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Steady increase in film production continued with 25 films produced in 2012.[105]Lara Saba completed her second feature,Blind Intersections.[131]Despite being critically acclaimed, Ziad Doueiry's film,The Attackwas banned in Lebanon because it was filmed on location in Israel.[132]74, La reconstitution d'une lutte,a docu-fiction by Raed and Rania Rafei, recreates the student occupation of the American University in Beirut 1974.[133]

2013
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The number of films produced in 2013 were 24.[105]Amin Dora'sGhadi,which was released in late 2013, became Lebanon's entry to theOscars's Foreign Language category[134]and later won the KNN Award (Audience Award) at theBusan International Film Festival.[135]Philippe Aractingicompleted and released his documentary feature film,Heritages.[136]

2014
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The number of films produced in Lebanon jumped to 31 films in 2014, and this also reflected an increase in the number of production companies, including 27 focusing only on films.[105]One of the most prominent films of the year wasVoid,written by George Khabbaz and directed by seven different directors, all of them graduates of Notre Dame University, and the film would be selected as Lebanon's entry to compete at the Oscars in 2015.[137]Ghassan Salhab reunited with actors Carlos Chahine and Carole Abboud inThe Valley,which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.[138]The Valleywas shot on 35 mm.[106]

2015
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There were 31 produced films in 2015, growing 675% since 2004.[139]

In 2015, Noura Kevorkian's drama-documentary hybrid feature film23 Kilometreswas selected for documentary competition at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival[140]as well asMuhr Awardfor feature film atDubai International Film Festival.[141]

Amber Fares' 2015 documentarySpeed Sisterswon the Feature Documentary award at theAdelaide Film FestivalinAdelaide,South Australia.[142]

Ely Dagher's short filmWaves '98premiered in Official competition at the Cannes film festival and won the short film Palme d'or.[143]

2016
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Two government initiative were passed in 2016 that benefited the film industry. The first was the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by the Fondation Liban Cinema and the Investment Development Authority of Lebanon (IDAL) which added the media industry, including film production, to IDAL's mandate of bringing investment to the country and offering incentives such as 100 percent tax exemption on corporate profits for up to 10 years.[144]The other initiative was Banque du Liban's offering of $100 million in loan guarantees at the low interest rate of 1 percent.[144]Banque du Libanalso issued Intermediate Circular 416, which subsidizes loans of up to $3 million by banks and financial institutions to support film, television and theatrical productions[145]

In 2016,Solitaire,Sophie Boutros's first feature film, premiered at the 13th Dubai International Film Festival[146]andPhilippe Aractingi's feature film,Listenwas also screened at Dubai Film Festival's Arabian Nights.[136]

A Maid for Each,a documentary by Maher Abi Samra about domestic servants in Lebanon, won the Peace Film Prize at Berlin Film Festival and Post-Production Awards at Final Cut in Venice 2014.[147][148]

One of the biggest hits of 2016 was the film,What About Tomorrow?a restoration of old 8mm footage of Ziad Rahbani's 1978 play.[144]The film chattered box office records in Lebanon.[149]

2017
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In February 2017, Mary Jirmanus Saba's debut featureA Feeling Greater Than Lovereceived the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival Forum. Later that year, December 2017,Lucien Bourjeily's debut feature filmHeaven Without Peoplewon the Special Jury Prize award at theDubai International Film FestivalwhileVatche Boulghour gian'sTramontanewas selected for Cannes' Critics' Week.[150]

After being supported by the Venice Biennale College - Cinema Program,Martyr(2017)byMazen Khaledpremiered at theVenice Film Festivalon 2 September 2017 where it was nominated for theQueer Lion Award.[151][147]The film also screened at theSXSW Film Festival,where it was included in the festival's Global section.[151]Breaking Glass Pictures acquired the film for American theatrical distribution andPeccadillo Pictureslaunched it in the UK.[152]

The documentary,Taste of Cement(2017) by Syrian filmmakerZiad Kalthoumwas filmed in Lebanon with Lebanese director of photography Talal Khoury. It was nominated for many awards and won a few, including The Golden Key award at the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival,[153]the International Competition at Visions du Réel,[154]and the International Documentary Award at theAdelaide Film Festival.[142]It also received aCinema Eye Honorsnomination.[155]

Rana Eid's documentary,Panoptic,released in cinemas in 2018, premiered at the 2017Locarno Film Festivaland received a First Lights from theJihlava Film Festivalin theCzech Republic.[156]

Among the 13 participating Arab countries, Lebanon had the most nominations at the Arab Film Institute's first edition of theArab Film Awards.[157]The films were:The Travellerby Hadi Ghandour, Jihane Chouaib'sGo Home,Listenby Philippe Aractangi,Single, Married Divorced,a comedy by Shady Hanna, the romantic comedySolitaireby Sophie Boutros, Roy Dib'sThe Beach House,andTramontaneby Vatché Boulghourou gian.[157]

2018
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WithOscarandPalme D'ornominations, 2018 marked a pivotal point for Lebanese cinema on the international stage.

In March,Ziad Doueiry'sThe Insultwas nominated for an Academy Award forBest Foreign Language Film,the first for Lebanon.[158]

Nadine Labaki'sCapernaum,which was selected to compete for thePalme d'Or,earned a 15-minute standing ovation following its premiere on 17 May 2018 at theCannes Film Festival.[159]The film won the Jury Prize.[160]

Tony Farjallah'sMorine,a film about a 7th-century woman who disguises herself as a man in order to live in a monastery, is considered the first historical film set in Lebanon.[161]Other films made were Michel Kammoun'sBeirut Hold'em,Nadim Tabet'sOne of These Days,Rana Eid's documentaryPanopticand Joanna and Khalil Joreige'sThe Notebooksa co-production of Abbout Productions and France's Haut et Court.[145][162]

2019
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Nadine Labaki'sCapernaumwas nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film at the76th Golden Globe Awards,[163]making it the second Lebanese film in two years to be nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Filmand earning Lebanon back-to-back nominations in the category.[164]The film was also nominated for Best Film Not in the English Language by theBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts[165]andCésar Awardfor Best Foreign Film.[166]Oualid Mouaness's debut fiction feature,1982won the NETPAC AWARD atTIFF,[167]theFIPRESCIInternational Critics Prize atEl Gouna Film Festival[168]and went on to accrue several awards around the world since itsToronto International Film Festivalpremiere.[169]1982was selected as Lebanon's submission for consideration in the best international feature film Oscar category.[170]Ahmad Ghossein's first fiction feature,All This Victorywon the top prize of the Critics' Week at theVenice Film Festival.[171]

2020s

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2020
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Jimmy Keyrouz'sBroken Keys,his first feature film and Danielle Arbid'sPassion Simplewere part of the 2020 Official Selection of theCannes Film Festival.[172]Brokey Keyswas submitted to represent Lebanon in theBest International Feature Film categoryat the93rd Academy Awards.[173]The Franco-Lebanese film,Skies of Lebanonby Chloé Mazlo was selected in the Cannes' Critics' Week.[174]

We Are From There,a feature documentary by Wissam Tanios, premiered at theInternational Film Festival Rotterdam(IFFR).[175]We Are From Therealso won the Saad Eldin Wahba Award for best non-fiction film at the Horizons of New Arab Cinema Competition at theCairo International Film Festivalwhile another Lebanese film,Under the Concreteby Roy Arida won the Saad Eldin Wahba Award for best fiction film.[176]

Karim Kassem'sOnly the Windswas selected for the50th International Film Festival Rotterdamand nominated for the Sesterce d'or Canton de Vaud atVisions du Réeland the Tanit d’Or at Carthage Film Festival.

The feature filmMafkoud,which was directed by Bachir Abou Zeid, was released in 2020 across the Arab world.[177]

In 2020, Netflix established a film and television emergency fund in collaboration with the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture (AFAC) to support in the form of individual grants Lebanon's film and TV industries.[178]

2021
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Memory Box,written and directed by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, which had its worldwide premiere at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival in March 2021, competed for the Golden Bear and Eliane Raheb'sMiguel's Warscreened in the Berlinale Panorama section where it was up for the audience award[179]and took second prize.[180]Death of a Virgin and the Sin of Not Living,the first feature by George Peter Barbari, also premiered in the Berlinale Panorma section.[181]

Ely Dagher'sThe Sea Aheadpremiered at Cannes during the festival's Directors' Fortnight.[182]Daizy Gedeon's documentary,Enough — Lebanon's Darkest Hour,screened at the Cannes Market and received the "Movie That Matters Award" sponsored by Film festivals and in association with Better World Fund.[183]

Mounia Akl's first feature filmCosta Brava Lebanon,starringNadine Labaki,premiered at the Horizons Extra section of the 78th Venice International Film Festival.[184]Its North American premier was at TIFF where it won the NETPAC award.[185]The film also won the FIPRESCI award and the Green Star award for tackling environmental issues at El Gouna Film Festival.[186]The film also won the Audience Award at the 65th edition of the BFI London Film Festival.[187]

In addition toCosta Brava Lebanon,Memory BoxandThe Sea Aheadalso screened at BFI London Film Festival.[188]

Oualid Mouaness's1982won the PRIX CANNES ECRANS JUNIORS 2021 at theCANNES FILM FESTIVALyouth sidebar CANNES CINÉPHILES.[189]Additionally, it won the UNICEF PRIZE 2021 in Switzerland.[190]

Elie Khalifé'sState of Agitationpremiered at the Mostra de Valencia, cinema del mediterrani, and screened at the Malmö Arab Film Festival.[191]

Ghassan Sahlab'sThe River,which is the last film of the trilogy afterThe Mountain(2010) andThe Valley(2014), premiered at the 74th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival.[192]

Karim Kassem'sOctopuswon theInternational Documentary Film Festival AmsterdamAward for Best Film in the Envision Competition, and a jury special mention award atZagrebDox 2022,in addition to nominations for best cinematography at the IDA Awards and for best film at Torino Film Festival.[193]

2022
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Netflix released its first Arabic original film,Perfect Strangers,starring Nadine Labaki and directed by Lebanese director Wissam Smayra[194]

"Warsha" a short film by director Dania Bdeir won the Short Film Jury Award at Sundance.[195]

Nadim Mishlawi's documentary feature film,After the End of the World,premiered atSheffield DocFest,one of the top three documentary festivals in the world.[196]

Wissam Charaf'sDirty Difficult Dangerousscreened at theVenice Film Festival,where it won the Europa Cinemas Label and at Palm Springs International Film Festival where it won the Bridging the Borders Award[197]

1982 by Oualid Mouaness was released theatrically in Mexico, Brazil, Hong Kong, Germany, Canada, and lastly, the United States[198]in June 2022 to critical acclaim.[199]It screened at independent cinemas in over fifty US cities and had an extended run of eight months that ended in March 2023.

2023
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Carlos Chahine's featureLa nuit du verred'eau was released in 2023 in Lebanon and France.[200]

Several documentaries came out in 2023, includingQby Jude Chehab that had its world premiered at Tribeca Film Festival[201]Cyril Aris' documentary film,Dancing on the Edge of a Volcanohad its world premiere in the Main Competition at theKarlovy Vary International Film Festival.[202]

Karim Kassem'sThiiirdworld premiered in the Tiger Competition atIFFR 2023,and won best international feature film atBeldocs IDFFin the same year. It was then nominated for the Jean-Loup Passek award (MDOC) and selected to show at theDiriyah Contemporary Art Biennale.

2023 was a good year for Lebanese short film.

“Les Chenilles”, the debut direction of Lebanese sister duo filmmakers Michelle and Noel Keserwany, won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival.[203]

“Sisters of the Rotation” by Gabriel and Michel Zarazir were selected into several Oscar-qualifying festivals, including premiering atSouth by Southwest[204]and screening at Palm Springs ShortFest[205]and the Guanajuato International Film Festival.

“Neo Nahda” by May Ziadé, a short experimental films that tackles queer and feminist histories in the region, screened in several festivals in 2023, including the Arab Women Artists Now Festival in London[206]and Mena Film Festival in Vancouver.[207]

At the end of 2023, Ireland submittedIn The Shadow Of Beirutfor theOscars international feature race;the documentary feature, which was shot in theSabra and Shatila refugee camps,was EP'd by Hilary and Chelsea Clinton and co-produced by Lebanese filmmaker Myriam Sassine and Beirut-based Abbout Productions.[208]

2024
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Myriam El-Hajj’s feature documentaryDiaries From Lebanon,premiered at the 74th Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section.[209]

Honeymoonish,the first Kuwaiti film shot in Lebanon, was produced by Lebanese production company Eagles Films and directed by Lebanese filmmaker Elie El-Semaan.[210]

Arzé,the debut feature byMira Shaib,written and produced byFaissal Sam ShaibandLouay Khraishwith producer Zeina Badran and starringDiamand Abou AbboudandBetty Taoutel,had its world premiere inBeijingand its North American premiere inTribeca.[211]The film was initially selected to premiere in the Official Competition of the45th Cairo International Film Festival,but the festival was canceled due to theIsrael-Hamas War.[212]

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