Movies: Dana Mikhail

Lebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: to stage the play Antigone on the front line, in order to steal a moment of peace from the rag...

Tadur is a meditation on emptiness (inspired by ancient Zen poetry). The film depicts the lush green outskirts of small, rural Mount Lebanon towns—a world where criminals, impoverished farmers, and monastic sages are immersed in both beauty and bruta...

As mold spreads through the city of Beirut, a woman faced with an auto-immune syndrome questions her ambivalent relationship with her body, surroundings, and the return of her partner....

Facing their imminent separation, Elias and Christiane dive into their memories for one final goodbye...