Movies: Pio Chahine

Lebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: to stage the play Antigone on the front line, in order to steal a moment of peace from the rag...

Mounia searches for her lost cat among the ruins of the Beirut port explosion. Joined by her best friend Ghady, they navigate the remnants of their city on a quest to recover what's been lost....

In a corner of one of Beirut’s streets, Nathalie is closing the bar where she works to welcome her boyfriend, Amin. It is an important night for the couple. They're going to celebrate him getting the role of his life in a huge feature film. But littl...