The films of Shurfa’s first edition: Lebanese features and shorts, screened in Arabic with English and French subtitles.
Six features across three nights. Every title screens once, in one city only.
Bachar Khattar, 2025, 77 min, documentary
Bachar Khattar follows an ultra-runner across the mountains of the Lebanon Mountain Trail. Underneath the endurance and the altitude, it is a story about a father and his daughter.
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Nadim Mishlawi, 2022, 72 min, documentary
After his father’s death, composer and filmmaker Nadim Mishlawi turns to Beirut, a city that keeps being torn down and rebuilt. Through archive footage, its buildings and an enveloping soundscape, he asks what places remember, and what goes with them when they disappear.
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Salim Mrad & Jihad Saade, 2025, 105 min, documentary
Three friends spend eight days driving around Lebanon, each stop writing the next chapter of the film they are making together. What they find, while the state falls apart around them, is care of another kind: mothers, humour, faith, the land itself.
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Eliane Raheb, 2016, 95 min, documentary
High in Akkar, a few kilometres from the Syrian border, a farmer in his sixties is building a farm and a restaurant on land his family has worked for generations. Eliane Raheb stays close as he argues, jokes and keeps going, in a region where almost everyone else has left.
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Patrick Tass, 2024, 72 min, documentary
For years, Patrick saved the voice notes and video calls he traded with his mother, Randa, in Lebanon. From that archive he builds a letter to her about distance, guilt and the white lies that kept them close. Tender, funny and frank about being queer, Palestinian and far from home.
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Badih Massaad & Antoine Waked, 2017, 65 min, documentary
Georges Nasser was the first Lebanese director to compete at Cannes, and then spent decades largely forgotten. At ninety, he tells his own story: the early triumph, the films that never got made, and a love of cinema that never dimmed.
View on IMDb (Un Certain Nasser)Shorts screen in blocks alongside each night’s feature, and each city gets its own selection.
Ali Alsheikh Khedr, 2025, 30 min, documentary
A portrait of Buzuruna Juzuruna, the farming collective in the Bekaa Valley that saves, grows and shares traditional seeds.
Dania Bdeir, 2022, 15 min, fiction
Mohammad, a Syrian worker in Beirut, volunteers to take over one of the city’s tallest and most dangerous cranes. Alone in the cab, high above everyone, he is free to become someone else.
Farrah Berrou, 2025, 17 min, documentary
In this short film, which is part-documentary and part-memoir, Farrah Berrou takes us to her ancestral border village of Kfarkila in southern Lebanon for the first time since October 8, 2023, the same day that Lebanon became a support-front to Gaza and Palestine in a post-October 7th world.
Omar Gabriel, 2024, 7 min, drama
In the Shatila camp, two friends, Omar and Omar, find moments of little joy in life amid hardship — until sudden violence forces them to confront loss, memory, and survival.
Jinane Dagher & Oscar de Gispert Zegri, 2024, 26 min, documentary
The city is not just a place to work and live—it’s also a space to play. Yet, residents often have to carve out their own areas to enjoy their right to leisure. A short film by Orjouane Production and Public Works Studio.
Mohamad Moe Sabbah, 2025, 22 min, fiction, no dialogue
“A group of soldiers are trapped in space and time. A hidden love story triggers hopes, dreams, and violence.”
Pierre Mouzannar, 2025, documentary
Every night, Laura, a Lebanese girl who emigrated to Northern Europe, reappears in the family home she left behind in Beirut. As her voice echoes through the dark and dusty living room, fragmented souvenirs start to form and paint the picture of the life that was once lived between these walls
Jihad Saade, 2025, 17 min, drama
Caught between a war-torn homeland and a compromised future abroad, a Lebanese expat faces an agonizing moral crossroad during a layover, as the personal cost of conscience collides with the realities of survival.
Bane Fakih, Wissam Charaf, Lucien Bourjeily & Areej Mahmoud, 2023, 90 min, anthology
Four short films, one country coming apart. From the October 2019 uprising to the port explosion and everything since, four directors take turns on the same subject, moving between drama and very dark comedy.
View on IMDb (Disorder)All ticket proceeds go to grassroots collectives in Lebanon.Tickets and prices