Catalogue des films de « Maher Abi Samra »

Sylvana et Mohammad cheminent ensemble. Elle est en chaise roulante, il est aveugle ; il pousse sa chaise, elle indique le chemin. Ils sont unis par des blessures communes, par un refus d’être isolés dans un monde à part, par une révolte...

Domestic work is a real market in Lebanon, segmented according to the national and ethnic origins of the workers and in which the Lebanese employer is master and the worker the property. Zein owns a domestic worker agency in Beirut. He arranges...

Shade of the walls is an exploration into the fragmentation of public space in Lebanon between confessional communities, and the integration of individuals within this fragmented space. It is articulated around three characters, including the...

"Nasr Hamed Abou Zayd n’est pas Godot, et l’attente promise par le titre est trompeuse : ce grand monsieur est présent dans quasiment chaque plan. Qui est-il ? Théologien musulman égyptien de réputation internationale, il a publié des...

Four sequence shots in black and white, like a memorial card, separated by black on the disasters of the second Lebanese war in Beirut in summer 2006. Men, some with faces covered by gasmasks, search the ruins for bodies; a roadway at night, its...

Shatila : the place evokes massacres and the dead. This film chooses to focus on the living. It shows fragments of life taken in a certain area: 150 metres of the main road of the camp, as well as the first floor of the Ghaza hospital. There is...

Maher Abi-Samra returns to the quarter of Ramel el Ali, in Beirut's southern suburb, where he grew up. Settled in the 50s by a mostly Shiite community which came from the villages of southern Lebanon and the Beka Valley, this quarter grew on the...