Movies: Wissam Charaf

A group of trendy, thirty-year olds turn up in a village. The young Géronimo, an ace driver, and his friends, wait for them firmly....

A multi-layered portrait of the turbulent and pivotal years that Lebanon has been living, since the big collapse of 2019 and the 2020 Beirut Port explosion, through four stories mixing drama and dark comedy....

Hani returns to his village in Lebanon, which he finds deserted and hostile. In this country, the end of the road for lost souls, Hani must learn to live again....

Mehdia, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker in Beirut, loves Ahmed, a Syrian refugee who struggles to survive dealing in second-hand metal scraps, while affected by a mysterious physical condition related to shrapnel wounds exposure during the war. ...

Beirut, Lebanon. On the waterfront’s construction site, security agent Raed must prevent passing-by walkers from accessing the seaside. Yet as the horizon becomes each day more stifled by the construction, Raed makes peculiar encounters—mere dreams, ...

After 20 years apart, Samir a former militiaman who was presumed dead, reappears in the life of Omar, his little brother who has become a bodyguard in Beirut. Between drama and comedy, Samir has to come to terms with a country he no longer recognizes...

In Liban, Chadi, a thirteen-year-old boy, the top of his class, discovers that he can make money from his talent. But money is not really the target. Instead, he wants to attract the interest of pretty Raya, whom he dares not speak to....

Wissam Charaf traces the recent history and identity of Lebanon through its political campaigns, PR imagery and pop videos....

Short version of Charaf's feature debut....

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