Acting
Yumna Marwan is a film and TV actress. She grew up in Beirut and spent her teenage years in Iowa, USA. She started her professional acting career in 2013 in the Lebanese feature film The Valley. She's married to Palestinian actor Ali Suliman.
After the sudden death of her husband, working mother Nawal has to fight for her inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game changer.
A Syrian doctor and her daughter flee Aleppo, setting off a chain of events that binds five strangers together. A smuggler, a soldier, a poet, and a coast guard captain collide in a crisis that tests their courage, their choices, and their humanity.
The fiery leader of the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925 fights to keep the revolution alive in exile. When the struggle for independence comes at the expense of his displaced family's safety, he must decide to sacrifice either his family or his country. The film explores the themes of bravery, loyalty and patriotism, as well as the difficult choices one must make when protecting their family.
After 20 years apart, Samir a former militiaman who was presumed dead, reappears in the life of Omar, his little brother who has become a bodyguard in Beirut. Between drama and comedy, Samir has to come to terms with a country he no longer recognizes.
At a bus stop near Beirut, a veiled Lebanese woman and a migrant Syrian worker get in a tumultuous moment and are arrested. They must argue their innocence in the face of the only witnesses: a bus full of women on their way to Koran school, each with her version of the truth.
Saleem and Raya meet at Raya’s place. Saleem enters the toilet and somehow gets stuck. Between the inside and the outside, trials and disappointments, laughter and hope, memories and screams, are all being shared at the doorstep.
A silent film about a young woman looking for Room 52 where she expects to meet a construction worker
A young man, who delivers 'shisha' in the Hamra area of Beirut, is obsessed with catcalling girls walking alone in the street. Things may change when he messes with the wrong girl.
Having recently arrived from the Middle East, two sisters find themselves roaming a ghost town in the American Midwest. As they struggle to connect to the alien land as well as to their family back home, tensions between them build, threatening the only comfort and support they have: each other.
Hani returns to his village in Lebanon, which he finds deserted and hostile. In this country, the end of the road for lost souls, Hani must learn to live again.