Friday, January 10, 2025 

Metropolis Cinema

19:30

Letters

(2024, Lebanon, 90 min)

Created and Produced by: Josef Khallouf

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Metropolis Cinema 

16:00 - 18:00 VR Experience

Dreaming of Lebanon

(2023, USA, 21 min)

Directed by Cynthia Sawma, Martin Waehlisch

19:00

Nécrose

(2024, Finland/Lebanon, 80 min)

Directed by François Yazbeck

21:00

Cinéma Laika

(2023, France/Finland, 81 min)

Directed by Veljko Vidak

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Metropolis Cinema

15:30 *by invitation

Contretemps*

(2024, Lebanon, 345 min)

Directed by Ghassan Salhab

16:00 - 18:00 VR Experience

Dreaming of Lebanon

(2023, USA, 21 min)

Directed by Cynthia Sawma, Martin Waehlisch

18:00

Letters

(2024, Lebanon, 90 min)

Created and Produced by: Josef Khallouf

20:00

Les filles d’Olfa (Four Daughters)

(2023, France/Tunisia/Germany/Saudi Arabia, 107 min)

Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania

Monday, January 13, 2025

Metropolis Cinema 

18:00

1489

(2023, Armenia, 76 min) 

Directed by Shoghakat Vardanyan

Monday, January 13, 2025 

Cinéma Montaigne, Institut français du Liban

20:00

Diaries from Lebanon

(2024, Lebanon/France/Qatar/Saudi Arabia, 110 min)

Directed by Myriam El Hajj

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 

Metropolis Cinema

19:00

Cilama

(2024, Lebanon, 89 min)

Directed by Hady Zaccak

21:00

Pictures of Ghosts

(2023, Brazil, 93 min)

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 

Cinéma Montaigne, Institut français du Liban

19:00

Ship of Fools

(2023, Lebanon/Germany, 30 min)

Directed by Alia Haju

20:00 *by invitation

Embodied Chorus

(2023, Lebanon/Germany/Luxembourg, 72 min)

Directed by Danielle Davie, Mohamad Moe Sabbah

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 

Metropolis Cinema

20:30

Dahomey

(2024, Benin/Senegal/France, 68 min)

Directed by Mati Diop

Thursday, January 16, 2025 

Cinéma Montaigne, Institut français du Liban

19:30

Moondove

(2024, Lebanon, 119 min)

Directed by Karim Kassem

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Metropolis Cinema 

21:00

Coconut Head Generation

(2023, France/Nigeria, 89 min)

Directed by Alain Kassanda

Friday, January 17, 2025 

Metropolis Cinema

19:00

Short Films Programme

5.49 km

(2024, Lebanon, 9 min)

Directed by Yara Nashawaty

déjà morts

(2024, Lebanon, 7 min)

Directed by Ghada Sayegh

Elle

(2024, Lebanon, 16 min)

Directed by Michèle Tyan

From my mother’s novel 

(2024, Lebanon, 8 min)

Directed by Fatima Joumaa

Mahdi Amel fi Gaza

(2024, USA, 14 min)

Directed by Mary Jirmanus Saba, Tareq Rantisi

Where No One Else Can See

(2024, Lebanon, 9 min)

By Nasri Sayegh Jr.

Where No One Else Can See

21:00

Bye Bye Tiberias

(2023, France/Palestine/Belgium/Qatar, 82 min)

Directed by Lina Soualem

Saturday, January 18, 2025 

Metropolis Cinema 

Starting 17:00

Biodiversity and Cinema - Presented by REEF

Session 1: The Protectors

Shift (20’) أفق

Moussa Shabandar & Shérine Raffoul

The Earth Weavers (25’)

Rima Kaddissi

Memory within a tree (15’)

Wassim Tanios

Along the Water (23’)

Rebecca Taouk

Session 2: Endangered

Mānthöûr Bayrūt (18’)

Farah F. Naboulsi

Snake Hill (25’)

Joëlle Abou Chabké

a Grotto for Sale (19’)

Muriele Honein

The Tree of Hell (20’)

Raed Zeno

20:00

Stranger Than Fiction

Screening series programmed by Nour Ouayda

Undergrowth 

(2023, Lebanon, 6 min) 

Directed by Reeda Fneiche 

Resilience Overflow

(2023, Lebanon, 16 min) 

Directed by by Lara Tabet 

Fly, Fly Sadness 

(2015, Canada/Haiti, 6 min) 

Directed by Myriam Charles

Before I Let Go 

(2023, USA, 23 min)

Directed by Cameron A. Granger 

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Sunday, January 19, 2025 

Metropolis Cinema

17:30

Night is Day: Film Encounter.

Ghassan Salhab in conversation with Ali Hussein AlAdawy

19:30

A Fidai Film

(2024, Palestine/Germany/Qatar/Brasil/France, 78 min)

Directed by Kamal Aljafari

Monday, January 20, 2025 

Metropolis Cinema

18:30

Maroun Returns to Beirut

(2024, Lebanon/Qatar, 120 min)

Directed by Feyrouz Serhal

21:30

Cine concert performed by Cynthia Zaven

on Palestine, a revised narrative

a project by Rana Eid and Cynthia Zaven

(30 min)

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 

Metropolis Cinema

19:00

We Are Inside

(2024, Lebanon/Qatar/Denmark, 180 min)

Farah Kassem

INFO

Ticket price: 400,000 L.L.

Cine concert ticket price: 900,000 L.L.

Tickets on sale at Metropolis Cinema starting Wed 8 January. *Opening Night (Fri 10 Jan) by free entrance, first come first served. 

VR Experience: Free - Booking required.

Full details on metropoliscinema.net