Lebanese cinema has long been shaped by conflict and displacement, with filmmakers turning the camera on civil war, occupation and the Palestinian refugee experience. Documentaries like Children of Shatila and Beirut, My City bear witness to lives lived amid rubble and resilience. Browse Macca's reviews below.
Rating: 2.0★
If you've ever wondered what happens when you take the saccharine, paint-by-numbers formula of a daytime television romance and transplant it to the Middle East, Elie El Semaan's Honeymoonish has your answer. And spoiler: the answer is not as interesting as you'd
Rating: 3.5★
There's a genuine audacity to what Moustapha Akkad attempts here, and for the most part, he pulls it off. The Message sets itself one of the most extraordinary creative challenges in the history of historical epic filmmaking: tell the story of the birth of Islam, with the Prophet
Rating: 4.0★
There's a scene early in Capernaum that sets the tone for everything that follows: a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy, sitting in a courtroom, announcing that he is suing his own parents for bringing him into the world. It's one of the most staggering opening
Muslim International Film Festival (MIFF)
Some films you watch, and some you live alongside. Birds of War belongs to the second kind. The filmmakers Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak, a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman, turn the camera on themselves and their own thirteen-year love story, assembled from
Genre Documentary
The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived (1974)
Genre Documentary
★★½ — Children of Shatila (1998)
Genre Documentary
★★★ — Beirut, My City (1983)
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