Producing an independent film is a challenge at the best of times: Beirut-based producer Georges Schoucair has shot two tightly financed indie features and helped launch a new arthouse cinema this ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - In a cinema industry traditionally dominated by the theme of war, "Caramel", a film by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, shies away from conflict and instead brings to light social ...

Youssef Chahine, 82, the visionary dean of the Arab movie industry whose films captivated and provoked audiences for over half a century by delving into the social, the political and the sexual, died ...

Newly launched Dubai-based sales company Mad World has acquired worldwide rights to Lebanese auteur Ghassan Salhab’s genre-bending next project “The Last City,” which is set in a collapsing Beirut ...