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★
Arab cinema covers an enormous range of tones and registers, from the unflinching social realism of Capernaum (2018) to lighter, crowd-pleasing fare aimed squarely at regional multiplex audiences. Honeymoonish (2024) plants itself firmly in the latter camp: a Kuwait-Lebanon co-production that pitches itself as a breezy opposites-
Rating: 3.5★
There are not many films that can claim to have caused a diplomatic incident before they even opened. The Message, released in 1976 under the alternative title Mohammad, Messenger of God, prompted a hostage siege at the Washington D.C. headquarters of B'nai B'rith, carried out
Rating: 4.0★
Few films arrive with quite the weight of expectation that Capernaum carried into cinemas in 2018. Directed by Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki and premiering at Cannes, where it won the Jury Prize, the film centres on Zain, a twelve-year-old boy living in the poverty-stricken backstreets of Beirut,
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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