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: 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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