Program LIFF 2024

All Screening will be held at Alba – académie libanaise des beaux-arts (Beirut, Lebanon)

Opening Ceremony

Opening Ceremony Tuesday, February 11th

The Lebanese Independent Film Festival (LIFF) would like to cordially invite you to the opening ceremony of its long-awaited 2024 edition, on Tuesday, February 11th, 2025 at Académie Libanaise des Beaux Arts (ALBA) – University of Balamand, Dekwaneh Campus. 

Doors open at 18.30

Red Carpet at 19.00

Ceremony at 20.00
Theater A

Screenings

Wednesday February the 12th, 2025
Theater A

4h-5:30h	1:30:00	Husband For Sale	Feature	Peter Takla
5:30h-7:30h	1:33:00	Platoon Seven	Documentary	Emilio Mounsef
7:30h-10h	0:08:18	GENS-DARK	Other	KARIM CHREYTEH
	0:10:00	Adam	Short, Student	Yara El Haj
	0:01:22	Picture	Short, Student	Houssein Haidar
	0:20:31	The Pyramid	Short	Fares Mahmoud Ghattas
	0:15:00	Meters Away	Documentary	Ibrahim Al Mawed
	0:14:26	Clustifer	Short	Karim Araman
	0:10:52	BAYN	Experimental, Short, Student	Tala Amer
	0:14:05	Psychicken	Short	Ata Mojabi
	0:20:00	TURMOIL	Short	Toni Yazbeck Abi Khalil

Wednesday February the 12th, 2025
Theater B

4h-6h	0:10:20	The Perfect Shot: Antarctica	Documentary, Short	Quinn Halleck
	0:10:30	Zaatara	Documentary	Adeeb Hassan Farhat
	0:06:44	The Landmarks of Memory	Documentary, Experimental, Short	Christina Hajjar
	0:20:00	Jabal	Experimental, Short, Student	Zayd Lahham
	0:20:00	The Poem We Sang	Documentary, Experimental, Short	Annie Sakkab
	0:26:51	KAMAR DIMASHQ	Short Documenatry	NIDAL KOUCCHA
6h-8h	0:15:00	Apnoia	Documentary	Vanessa Payri
	0:03:19	ARENA	Documentary, Experimental	Khalil Charif
	0:11:32	25km	Documentary, Experimental, Short	Eliane Pauline Roumie
	0:15:52	Dilemma	Short	Husam Saaed Al-Mansory
	0:14:48	Mr.Wool	Experimental, Short, Other	Karim Kassem, Moustafa Kassem
	0:15:00	Manity	Short	Hussen Ibraheem
8h-10h	0:25:46	NINA	Documentary, Short	Karen Alvarado
	0:08:00	Baha’is in Lebanon	Documentary, Short	George Tarabay
	0:05:00	DO YOU CONDEMN? GAZA CRIES IN THE DARK	Documentary, Experimental, Short	Cherine Yazbeck
	0:16:26	The Release	Documentary	Myriam Amri, Pauline Vidal
	0:25:37	What Happened To You	Documentary, Short	ALEC GOLDBERG
	0:18:21	Maleth, Meaning Shelter	Documentary, Short, Student	Martin Girardi

Thursday February the 13th, 2025
Theater A

4h-5:30h	0:52:24	Resilient Smiles	Documentary, Student	Khaled M Askar
5:30h-7:30h	0:25:00	Kraken	Short	Mhammad Siblini
	0:15:49	25 – Twenty Five	Short, Student	Loulwa Azzam Obeid
	0:08:27	It Takes Winter To Spring	Student	Bahaeddine Tounekti
	0:16:32	You are Now A Player.	Short, Student	Tonia Kiwan
	0:10:05	The Woman Pastor	Documentary	Julien Kobersy
7:30h-10h	0:08:51	Like Father, Like Father	Short, Student	Cherine Attie
	0:17:15	Sonder – They, Next Door	Short, Student	Omar El Cherkaoui
	0:04:38	9 O’CLOCK	Short, Student	Joseph M. Abi Ramia
	0:00:00	Aphrodite’s Ark	Animation, Short, Student	Jimmy Rahi
	0:09:42	Balwe- The mess	Short, Student	Jade Nakhle
	0:12:32	Atlal	Short, Student	Mohamad El Hajj

Thursday February the 13th, 2025
Theater B

4h-6h	0:13:29	Seeds of Gold.	Short	James Elazzi
	0:14:58	AMAZING GRACE	Short	Aiden Keltner
	0:20:43	A Hell of a Trip to Delicias	Short	Darwin Reina
	0:21:13	Emerald City	Short	Josef Steiff
6h-8h	0:30:00	La voix des autres / The voice of others (Sub Eng)	Short	Fatima Kaci
	0:12:23	Autonomous	Short	Birgitta Liljedahl, Therése Neaimé, Henrik Norman, Anna Brixter
	0:18:00	Locked Down	Short, Student	Dimitris Tsilinikos
	0:12:26	Sorry I’m Late!	Short	Donovan Smith
	0:12:20	To’oborni	Short, Student	Lara Bedewi
8h-10h	0:05:01	ENTROPY	Short	YUMENG LIU, WEIZHI CAO
	0:22:46	Paranoid Again	Short, Student	Ziad G. Nasrallah
	0:13:55	The Calling	Short	Piotr Matyja
	0:08:15	I’ll Get Back To You	Short	Uday Jubeh
	0:16:40	ADA	Short	Anaïs VACHEZ
	0:07:44	A Dream of Fire	Short	Lingxuan Zhang
	0:15:37	A Prayer of Hope	Short	Hamad Mohammed Alhammadi

Friday February the 14th, 2025
Theater A

4h-5:30h	1:22:10	Warehouse 12 – The Story of Beirut Blast	Documentary	Paul Russell, Andrea Vogt
5:30h-7:30h	0:10:36	Open Sesame	Short	Charbel Mouchantaf
	0:04:31	Gibran’s Bcharre	Documentary	Antonio Sina Rahme
	0:28:01	Hakoura	Documentary, Experimental, Other	George Hanna
	0:08:50	Harvesting Hope	Documentary, Short	Emilio Bou Onk
	0:14:19	Heaven on Earth	Documentary, Short	Marilyn Gaby Atallah
7:30h-10h	0:07:12	CUT	Short	SERGE ALHELAYEL
	0:15:00	EH	Short	Raed Habib
	0:08:46	Skyward	Short	Wehbi Mohammad
	0:04:26	SATURN	Short	Dana Nahhas
	0:07:06	Under The Sun	Short	Ghassan Sidawi

Friday February the 14th, 2025
Theater B

4h-6h	0:22:08	Olga’s Eyes	Short	Sarah Carlot Jaber
	0:12:40	Awal Yom ‘Aza	Short, Student	Jehad Hallaq
	0:13:00	Due Mondi Separati / Two worlds	Short	Marianna Sciveres
	0:14:40	And That’s for This Christmas	Short	Peter Vulchev
	0:16:50	Abrazo	Short	Paola Baldion
6h-8h	0:03:23	What She Didn’t Know	Animation, Experimental, Short, Student	Zoe Zheng
	0:03:00	Mother	Animation, Short, Student	Kaleb Leino
	0:01:58	Chocolate and Flowers	Animation, Short, Student	Damaris Unat Almanza
	0:02:31	The Little Rat	Animation, Short, Student	Maddy Benson
	0:02:12	Fear of Fear	Animation, Experimental, Short, Student	Claire Krack
	0:03:00	I am a Line	Animation	Hend Al-Mansour
	0:04:41	CORREA	Animation	Lachlan Plain
	0:02:15	Mountain Girls – Lord Take My Hand	Animation, Music Video, Short	Nick Rohr
	0:04:03	Oyster Bay Rebellion	Animation	Larry Guernsey
	0:03:10	Nerd	Animation	Gustavo Andres Menese
	0:01:15	Socks in wonderland	Animation, Short	dalia El dik
	0:02:25	Tahta Thell Al Aalam	Animation, Short, Student	Laila Nemer
	0:02:02	Book!	Animation	Chris John Georgenes
	0:05:42	Sapere Aude	Animation, Short, Student	Chadai Chamoun
	0:10:15	Between Land and Sky	Animation, Experimental, Short, Student	Shayma Aziz
	0:10:40	Finding Ghanem (Part 1)	Experimental, Short	Carl M George
	0:18:17	Finding Ghanem (Part 2)	Experimental, Short	Carl M George
	0:10:30	Finding Ghanem (Part 3)	Experimental, Short	Carl M George
	0:05:31	THEM	Experimental, Short, Student	Michel Kahwaji
8h-10h	0:44:00	Snoubar Skatepark	Documentary	Jay B. Jammal

Friday February the 14th, 2025
Theater C

4h-6h

1:21:00

That Breath

Documentary

Valentina Baracco Pena

Saturday February the 15th, 2025
Theater A

4h-5:30h	1:56:00	Triple A	Feature	Jihane El Bahhar
5:30h-7:30h	0:07:31	My Life on her Edge	Short	Ali Gharbieh, Fady Farran
	0:32:56	COULISSE	Documentary, Experimental, Other	Karim Chreyteh, Serge Al Helayel
	0:11:11	Before The Rain Fades Away	Short	Hassan Ammar
	0:10:56	Roua	Short	Yasmin Kobeissi
7:30h-10h	0:05:54	GINGERHEAD	Other	Pauline Gaby El Nawwar
	0:12:00	Sugar Free	Short	Charbel El Melhem
	0:14:03	Ismail & Yosra	Short	Ali Takch
	0:30:00	Berlin Blast	Short	Christian Stahl

Saturday February the 15th, 2025
Theater B

4h-6h	1:36:00	Miracle Zone	Feature	Alexander Sadreddini
6h-8h	0:56:19	L’Orient-Le Jour a combat newspaper	Documentary	Fulvia Alberti
8h-10h	1:33:30	When Adam changes	Animation	Joël Vaudreuil
	0:02:07	Sunken Treasures of Love	Experimental, Short	Andreas Schumacher

Saturday February the 15th, 2025
Theater C

4h-6h	1:32:00	From Abdul to Leila (92′, 2024)	Documentary, Experimental, Feature, Music Video	Albayaty Leila
6h-8h	1:11:01	Mannvirki	Documentary, Experimental, Feature	Gústav Geir Bollason
	0:14:47	CR7	Animation, Experimental, Short	ANESH CHANDRAN AZAD
8h-10h	1:24:11	FORTIS FEMINA	Feature	Mitesh Patel

Sunday February the 16th, 2025
Theater A

4h-5:30h	1:04:30	LANDEN	Documentary, Experimental	Vanessa Nica Mueller
5:30h-7:30h	0:23:32	Love Intense	Short	Davide Chiazzese
	0:26:58	Hamdardi	Short	Ashley Tabatabai, Stefan Fairlamb
	0:08:42	BAGGER	Short	Tarek David Mallo
	0:18:32	Sister Marie-Ange	Short	Rami Salloum

Award Ceremony

Sunday February the 16th, 2025
Closing Ceremony at 8:00 pm

Note that this schedule may get modified constantly for logistical reasons. We advise you to check up on your screening 48 hours before the date of the screening.