Georges Khabbaz stars alongside German film legend Hanna Schygulla in Ameer Fakher Eldin’s melancholic drama about an exiled ...

Reporting from Beirut — In movie theaters in Lebanon, “The Insult” is preceded by a terse disclaimer: The views in the film do not represent those of the Lebanese government. Yet that official unease ...

In America, The Insult has been nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film. It is the first time Lebanon has had a horse in the Oscar race, a rare moment of artistic recognition for ...

BEIRUT (AP) -- The villain in Lebanon's new hit war movie: a cigar-smoking Israeli army colonel who sports a cowboy hat and a handlebar mustache and repeatedly orders troops to shell Lebanese villages ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Many directors would have been devastated when their plans to show their first feature at the Cannes Film Festival were wrecked by the spread of COVID-19. But Lebanon’s Jimmy ...

Tricycle Logic, a Los Angeles-based film production and distribution company, has announced the theatrical release of the critically acclaimed and award-winning film "1982" which is scheduled to open ...

Lebanese director Ely Dagher’s “Harvest” (see interview here), a drama about a young woman contending with identity issues on returning to Beirut after a long stint abroad, is the standout title in ...

Lebanon’s first-ever Oscar-nominated film begins with a scene of everyday Beirut — a narrow street, the spray of a hose, a leaky pipe, the clanking of hammers on concrete, a balcony, a shout, a ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Beirut-based Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) has announced that Lebanese film critic Rima Mismar is being promoted executive director of the prominent fund that ...