LIFF
Lebanese Independent Film Festival المهرجان اللبناني للأفلام المستقلة
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Horse Girl (7.5/10) Sarah, a socially isolated arts and crafts store employee, finds herself more content in the company of horses and supernatural crime shows than people. But when a series of strangely surreal dreams upend the simplicity of her waking life, Sarah struggles to distinguish her visions from reality. The story written and performed by Allison Brie, is in fact inspired tremendously by her own family’s psychological history. More specifically, her… Read More
Vivarium (8.5/10) Hoping to find the perfect place to live, a couple travel to a suburban neighborhood in which all the houses look identical. But when they try to leave the labyrinth-like development, each road mysteriously takes them back to where they started. Talk about creepy! Vivarium is an imaginative thriller that leaves everything to the spectator’s imagination and own interpretations. The plot is extremely multi-dimensional and actually raise a handful of… Read More
The Other Lamb (8/10) For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a… Read More
And then we danced (8.5/10) A passionate coming-of-age tale set amidst the conservative confines of modern Tbilisi, the film follows Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with a rebellious streak. “And Then We Danced” is a brutally honest and devastating love story that speaks with a forbidden language filled with passion, lust and dreams! The entire story is basically an… Read More
Bombshell (9/10) A revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it. When you have Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly, Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson and Margot Robbie as Kayla Pospisil, you can easily expect Bombshell-like performances that can immediately be described as some of the best performances we’ve witnessed this entire… Read More
Little Women (9.5/10) Bold, exquisite, emotional… many adjectives were used in the description of this timeless piece of cinematic art. So, allow me to add one more, REVOLUTIONARY!! In the years after the Civil War, Jo March lives in New York and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore, a childhood crush who proposed to Jo but was… Read More
JoJo Rabbit (9/10) Jojo is a lonely German boy who discovers that his single mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his imaginary friend — Adolf Hitler — Jojo must confront his blind nationalism as World War II continues to rage on. What is Jojo Rabbit all about? Is it about Nazism? Is it about Hitler? About World Wars? Yes, it is all these and more. Jojo… Read More
Portrait of A Lady on Fire. (9/10) France, 1770. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day, to paint her secretly. Every now and then, a movie is released, screened and then goes on to spend eternity in the… Read More
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