LIFF 2022

The Lebanese Independent Film Festival LIFF is back for its 2022 edition,
on September 1st, 2nd and 3rd at Station Beirut.
What to expect ?
Local and international films, arab premieres and home premieres, Q&A,
pannels, and a well chosen international and local jury members.
Join us for full three days of cultural and cinematic exchange.
Be ready for an epic edition and don’t blink; the programming will be out really soon !
Congratulations to all selected artists ! We are very happy to be back !

Winners LIFF 2022

– [ ] Best local short documentary: The stranger Within Me
– [ ] Best local feature documentary: Fiasco
– [ ] Lebanese expat award: Bayt El Omr 
– [ ] Best international short fiction: Anemoia
– [ ] Best International Feature Documentary : Wadi Jhannam
– [ ] Best web doc / best web fiction: In Dreams
– [ ] Best International Feature Fiction: The anger
– [ ] Best international short documentary: Identity : The Andrew Nemer Story
– [ ] Best Director: The pit 
– [ ] Diversity special award : Son of a dancer
– [ ] Best independent film award: clotheslined
– [ ] Best sound design : Hera
– [ ] Special jury award : I have dreamt Carthage
– [ ] Best student award : Blinded by desire
– [ ] Best actor: Joseph Maroun for Paradis and Elsewhere Hotel
– [ ] Best actress: Yara zakhour
– [ ] Best editing: Stuck in the sound
– [ ] Best cinematography: Leila
– [ ] Best narrative: lady of portrait
– [ ] Best International Feature Documentary : Zip it
– [ ] Best International Medium-length Documentary : Our Back Lane
– [ ] Best Short Script : WITNESS
– [ ] Best Feature Script : The Christians – Earth’s Cry Heaven’s Smile (120)

Lebanese Independent Film Festival LIFF poster 2022

Thursday September 1st 2022

Theatre ATheatre B
12:00:00 PM
Zip it
Countdown to year zero
On Sacred Ground
Atlas



6:30:00 PM
Doors Open
8:00:00 PM
OPENING CEREMONY
10:00:00 AM
Life of consequences
The mother, the son, the rat, and the gun
Ophir
Endless Passions
Life in Seclusion

04:00:00 PM
Beirut the Aftermath


6:30:00 PM
Doors Open
8:00:00 PM
OPENING CEREMONY

Friday September 2nd 2022

Theatre ATheatre BTheatre C
10:00:00 AM
Love will come later
Inventory

12:30:00 PM
I’m not Lakkit

1:40:00 PM
The Anger

3:30:00 PM
Al Arena

5:15:00 PM
Anemoia
Seaside Azan
Dollar Generals
Hell
Coalescent

7:00:00 PM
Souls
Latched
A Piece of Home
The Last Dance
Lady of a Portrait
Will You Burry Me

8:30:00 PM
لا شرف
Blinded by Desire
Amorette
Dream
MiMo
Ancestral Land

9:30:00 PM
Spatiohumanism
Baba
Digging for Life
I Have Dreamed Carthage
Celebrating a Century
Elle s’appelle Beyrouth

11:00:00 PM
NETWORKING EVENT


10:00:00 AM
The Fifth Story
Twilight Zones
For the good of the people

1:00:00 PM
The Shadow Pandemic
Identity: The Andrew Nemr Story
In Dreams

2:00:00 PM
Glenn, The Great Runner
Music For One Apartment
And Six Drummers
Little Children, Big Words

03:00:00 PM
Thawra soul
Beirut After 40
Scenes from Home
Kabis

4:30:00 PM
Hera
The Stranger Within Me
For you, in Silence
Spoon

5:50:00 PM
The Adventure of a mother
and her daughters

7:30:00 PM
What Remains
Zaroube
Al Na’awa
The Red Bond
Joy

8:55:00 PM
Passage
Impasse
Carefully Crafted
Between Red & Purple
Voices of the Voiceless

10:10:00 PM
Roger Corman, The Pope of Pop Cinema

11:00:00 PM
NETWORKING EVENT
6:00:00 PM
Workshop with
Kazem Fayyad

7:30:00 PM
Paradis
I Left Home
Elsewhere Hotel
Stuck in The Sound
Q&A

9:30:00 PM
Clotheslined
Bayt El Omor
Son of A Dancer
Type Two
The Pit
Q&A




11:30:00 PM
NETWORKING EVENT

Saturday September 3rd 2022

Theatre ATheatre BTheatre C
10:00:00 AM
Naked
Nursery Crimes
Roses in the Night
The First Breath
Echo
CloseCall
Grydscaen
Blue Moon

11:00:00 AM
It’s a Wonderful Day
Our Back Lane

1:45:00 PM
Moment of Bliss

3:10:00 PM
Diyar Hisma
Day Watchers
Taking the Desert
Return
A Cry for Help

4:50:00 PM
Inheritance
Charter
Perfect Strom
#LolasJourney
Wolf + Lamb

6:00:00 PM

Fiasco

7:50:00 PM
END SCREENING

9:00:00 PM
CLOSING CEREMONY


10:00:00 AM
Lynx
Suspension of Beliefs
The Sylph
Markus Knight
Wadi Jhannam

11:30:00 AM
Behind the Oak Tree
Leila
It’s Just Another Dragon
Attachment
A Strange Structure

1:00:00 PM
The Migratory Bird
Xpat Bond
Lost Arab
Then Came Dark
III
Ya Mejana

2:45:00 PM
The Dreams of Lonely People
Free Flow
The Sea Calls For Me
Harry the Hamster
Dublined
Eli Nazik

4:25:00 PM
Stairs to the Sky
Buried Bullet
Under Water
Over 18
A Letter

6:00:00 PM
Greyland

7:57:00 PM
END SCREENING


9:00:00 PM
CLOSING CEREMONY



9:00:00 PM
CLOSING CEREMONY


Thank you to the Embassy of Canada to Lebanon for their support.