Akram Zaatari

8.0 MovieA late night online chat between two men who haven't met since the turn of the millennium leads to their reunion after ten years of separation. The film navigates...

Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright

2010

Movie‘Objects of War’ is a series of testimonials on the Lebanese war. Each person chooses an object, ordinary or unusual, which serves as a starting point for his / her...

Objects of War

2000

MovieLebanese artist-filmmaker Zaatari conducts both an investigation and a stirring tribute to an act of resistance (or forbearance) that marked his childhood memories:...

Letter to a Refusing Pilot

2013

MovieTwenty-Eight Nights and a Poem explores the work of photographer Hashem el Madani, who has run a commercial photography studio in southern Lebanon for the last five...

Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem

2015

MovieA documentary crew digs up a letter from a Lebanese socialist resistance fighter.

In This House

2004

MovieSet in the industrial suburbs of Beirut, Majnounak explores male sexuality through interviews with men who recount one of their sexual relationships. Attentive to...

Crazy of You

1997

MovieIn a city post-apocalypse, young men communicate only through smart devices. They make home out of urban debris. They can’t speak to each other, but are still able to dream.

Beirut Exploded Views

2014

MovieIn 1998, Akram Zaatari interviewed Egyptian photographer Van Leo in Cairo. In 2001 he made the video Her + Him Van Leo and based it on the story of a woman who once...

Her + Him

2012

MovieRED CHEWING GUM recounts a story of separation between two men. It is a video letter that is set in the context of the changing Hamra, a formerly booming commercial...

Red Chewing Gum

2000

MovieGIFT discusses the idea of public space : on a public beach, right across from a residential block, a young boy begs the filmmaker to let him join soccer players in...

Gift

1995

MovieIn the courtyard of an old house in Saida, a woman is rehearsing a scene from a movie. She introduces her family, and the camera records both moments from her...

Portrait de Famille

MovieHow I Love You is an exploration of sexuality among gay men in Lebanon. A couple and three individuals talk about their sex lives, about commitments and failures,...

How I Love You

2004

MovieAn eleven-minute film by Akram Zaatari from 1995. Memories and images of childhood are reflected both on the screen and in the small mirror that a young boy plays...

Reflection

1995

MovieA journalist and a photographer drift on their way between Beirut and Baalbeck. Their journey is repeated three times in three different ways to evoke current issues...

Baalbek

2001

Movie"A 4 channel video installation based on youtube material made by individuals filming themselves in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Yemen,...

Dance to the End of Love

2011

Movie"Zaatari got his start in the freewheeling and somewhat rough-and-tumble world of Lebanese television in the mid-1990s. Zaatari was hired in 1995 as the executive...

Mourning Images

1995