LIFF 2025/2026

September 4th till 13th, 2026 in the Lebanese National Theater in Beirut Cinéma Le Colisée

Program

Friday September 4th, 2026
6pm – 7pm
On ne le quitte pas, on s’en arrache – Hania Khoury

7:30pm
Doors Open
8pm
Opening Ceremony
(Films to be announced soon)

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Saturday September 5th, 2026
6pm – 7:30pm
Book of Suffocations – Yoan Zoghbi
Pause – Khalid Mursi Hamoud
Saho – Jana Gerges
Alvart – Valentina Kalaydijan
How I became “the astray” – Joe Habka
Analogical – Jason Saikaly
Q and A

7:30pm -9pm
Truce – Pia Eid
Drought – Feryal Stietie
Six Rooms – Yorgo Katergi
The Two Prisons of Roumieh – Antoni Barakat
What Could Have Been – Amanda Barakat
Q and A

9pm -11pm
Match in a Haystack – Joe Hill
Q and A

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Sunday September 6th, 2026
6pm – 7:30pm
BOOZA – George Saade
Black Tooth – Elio El Khoury
Shutter – Jad Banjarian
Nobody – Nour Farran
MAYA – Anna Abi Daoud
Q and A

7:30pm – 9pm
Thud In The Void – Raghid Monzer
Ill-usion – Tony Mobarak
99 – Charbel Tabet
Dissolve – Daniel Daher
Q and A

9pm – 11pm
GENKEYS – Abbas Fadllalah
Q and A

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Monday September 7th, 2026
6pm – 7:30pm
Beirut Addio – Singing under the bombs – Jean Claude Chinchere
Ever Still Here – Stephanie El Khoury
Baião d’intérieurs – Héloïse Dorsan-Rachet
TRUTH OF A HOMELAND – Elias Chalhoub
SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN – Klara El Feghali
Quo vadis, Meryem ! – Amine Zeriouh
A Dream Pointing to Aadchit – Ghinwa Yassine
Somewhere, but not here – Karel Malkoun
THE LAST CEDARS – Rafael Farhat
Q and A

7:30pm – 9pm
Take Care of My Johny – Anothony Bou Rjeili
Stay – Jaime Daccache
Yeprem: The Spark of a Legacy – Joseph Hanna
Beyond Duty – Moutaz Bellah
Agapé – Matteo El Hani
And Then – Philippe Dahdouh

9pm – 11pm
CITY EXTERMINATOR – Christophe Karabche
Q and A

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Tuesday September 8th, 2026
6pm – 7:30pm
The Angels of Winter – Peter Francis Lucas
PIRET – Julián De La Chica
Buzzymentary – Charbel Salim Chamoun
Two Souls – Moaz Wahid Moussa
Abu Shanab – Anthony Abdo
Beyond the edge – Alaa Aboutaam
Analogical – Jason Saikaly
Alvart – Valentina Kalaydjian
Her Own peak – Emilio Bou Onk

7:30pm – 9pm
HOLLYWOOD BOMB: The “Most Important” Movie Never Made–and the Nuclear Fallout Today – Greg Mitchell
Pause – Khaled Mursi Hamoud
Displaced – Razan Saylami
Komorebi – Avedis Momjian
The HUM – Julia S.Ruth
TOUCHED – Rana Rachid

9pm – 11pm
CITY EXTERMINATOR – Christophe Karabche

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Wednesday September 9th, 2026
6pm – 7:30pm
SNAKE HILL – Joelle Abou Chabke
BURY ME – Mariana Restock
Dead While Living – Jawad Samir Zaarour
Now the sky is mine – Omar Ahmad
Khalidan Jihad Anwar Aboukhaled

7:30pm – 9pm
Le Desir D’andre – Issam Sleiman
The Moment – Chantale Gemayel
TWO DEAD LEAVES – Mohamad Hamadan Eidy
WOKEN – Jawad Zaarour
BOOK OF SUFFOCATIONS – Yoan Zoghbi

9pm – 11pm
DROUGHT – Ferial Steity
Analogical – Jason Saikaly
It has a face – Georgio Nassif
TRUCE – Pya Edgar Eid
Welcome Back, Back Again, Again and Again – Najwa Hasbini, Selina Khoury, Racha Mawla, Carl Youssef
SAHO – Tala Mukahal
THE RESILIENCE OF THE POPPY’ – Mona Hammoud

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Thursday September 10th, 2026
6pm – 7:30pm
Now the sky is mine – Omar Ahmad
KRAKEN – Mhammad Ali Siblini
Eve – Fatima Al Zahraa Radi Al Massri
The Capricorn – Hassan Jaafar Haidar
The Finale Rayan – Mahmoud Tikriti
Moon – Prodigy – Lara Maamoun

7:30pm – 9pm
Le Souffle Du Temps – Laetitia Moya Moukarzel
The Withered Willow – Sam Sakhle
And Now What ? – Marie Thérèse Abou Zeid
Aichiyeh, Silence at Dawn – Oliver Bou Eid
YOUR LANDLORD TO THE LORD – Karim Chreyteh
LOAFERS – Sarah El bitar
Jeem 1983 – Jorj Abou Mhaya

9pm – 11pm
40 days – Peter Takla

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Friday September 11th, 2026
6pm – 7:30pm
in the skin of the Monster – Karim Chreyteh
4 Out Of 5 – Christina Fatayri
soul Talya – Marc Anthony Haddad
كالأرز خالدًا – Karen Hamid Masry
pomegranade – Talia sagih Azar
Forget-Me-Not – Miled Antoine Morkos
Within – Antonio Bou Lotfallah

7:30pm – 9pm
Penalty – Lama Mohamad Youssef
A Place for Me – Maya Sami Tabsh
In Loving Memory – RFA
Teta Nawal – Ghia Zaatari, Bachar Khatter
naba’ – Abbass abed Fadelallah
The First Sin – Sara Houchaimi
Judge The Freak – daniel Bassam el atrache

9pm -11pm
For a Future that May or May Never Be – Lama Tauk
A 1000$ Job – Charbel Assaf
Costi – Siraj Rabih Hasan
Perfect Storm – Jad Chatila
One Moment – Abdallah Suleiman Azzam
No Place To Go – Bachar Bzeih

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Saturday September 12th, 2026
6pm – 7:30pm
MOM – Ivan Sosnin
Naka’ – Al-Sukun Zainab Akram Almokatran
In Between – Maria Ararat Apelian
Abu el Shanab – Anthony Abdo
Beyond The Edge – Alaa aboutaam
Held in a timeless embrace – Alexa Chidiac

7:30pm – 9pm
Once Upon A Life – Andy Rahy
Red Rope – Marliyne Abi Fren
My Lebanon – Lamya Razzouk
FEAR episode 8 – Karim Chreyteh & Serge El hayel
Peony – Christine Tannous
Press Post – Melissa Hajj
Breath – Dima Nachawi
WEAK SIGNAL – Youssef Hamid
Q and A

9pm – 11pm
Together – Fadia Ahmad

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Sunday September 13, 2026
6pm – 7pm
Seif Mohamed – abdel fatah SHENAWY
Reminder ; Pill – Gaelle Saad

7pm – 8:30pm
A-crochet – Karim Chreyteh
Coulisses – Karim Chreyteh

8:30
Award show