In 1958, while revolution is rumbling in Beirut, three sisters spend their holidays in an isolated village of Lebanese mountains: rebellious Nada, romantic Eva, and the eldest Layla, a good woman, beloved by everyone. But the war threatens and the sudden entrance of two French summer vacationers leads Layla to revolt against patriarchal society.
Far away from home, and after becoming auditorily impaired with a tinnitus as a result of the Beirut blast of August 4th, Tahara, a Lebanese immigrant in Europe, tries singing again, but homesickness overtakes her every emotion. Water is a sensory key element that reminds her of home, by the Mediterranean sea, where her heart and mind are at ease.
Rebecca, a 24 years old woman, lives with her mother in Beirut. Single mother, she struggles to bond with her son, Elias. The day before his sixth birthday, Elias asks if she can take him to see the sunset by the sea. Reluctant, Rebecca is forced to face the memory of a traumatic event that has been haunting her for years.
Mounia searches for her lost cat among the ruins of the Beirut port explosion. Joined by her best friend Ghady, they navigate the remnants of their city on a quest to recover what's been lost.
In a corner of one of Beirut’s streets, Nathalie is closing the bar where she works to welcome her boyfriend, Amin. It is an important night for the couple. They're going to celebrate him getting the role of his life in a huge feature film. But little did Nathalie know that Amin is also coming with small news that will turn their night upside down.
Only Ensaaf can reverse her grandmother’s curse on Al Samaans, but her path is paved with challenges and her destiny is tied to the success of her endeavour.
Farah, a young woman in her early twenties, is slowly fading out behind her solitary routine until an unexpected visit from a longtime friend leads her to question her choices.
Fed up with his wife’s distancing from him, Hadi goes on a business trip to Turkey where he meets a special woman, an encounter that changes his life forever.
Living in Beirut, a highly enthusiastic filmmaker is in a state of hyper inspiration characterized by an overfiow of contrasting ideas. As a consequence, his characters will go through compelling and extraordinary circumstances. To clear his mind, he heads north where a screening of his short films is scheduled in a rural public school. A series of encounters along the way will turn his world upside down.
At a hospital in a Lebanese village, organ trafficking is secretly taking place. Nurse Lucie works to ease the way, until the day where a new element appears and pushes her to hold out.
Marilyne Naaman is a Lebanese actress and singer, born in Beirut. She studied audio-visual cinema at Notre-Dame University (Lebanon), then in 2019 pursued the international intensive workshop of the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart (Germany), specializing in directing, writing, and acting. Naaman has taken on various roles in local and international short films as well as roles in series now playing on SHAHID and NETFLIX. Recently, she played the lead role in a feature film called La Nuit Du Verre D’eau (Mother Valley) alongside iconic French actress Nathalie Baye, directed by Lebanese-French director Carlos Chahine, going on to win Best Actress at Amman International Film Festival. Naaman started her musical career in 2020 and in 2023, she participated in the international-French TV program, The Voice, on TF1.