Jean Bitar
Directing
Known For

A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out that he has suddenly changed his name, nationality and skin colour for the sake of love.
Land of Love

High-class prostitute Bella works for hotel manager TT with Sara, Lulu and Cindy. However, Bella misses the ordinary life and love of her youth Timo, who is a hockey player on the team owned by TT.
Porttikielto taivaaseen
A portrait of the great theatre actor Evgeniy Lebedev.
Onnellinen mies
A documentary about a night café called Walkers, its workers and the youth – largely immigrants – populating the café during the night.
Yökahvila Walkers
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Musta tuntuu

A group theater ensemble film about a doctor who wants to help a group of refugees in Finland.
Keikka
Tero Sand was attached to a life-support machine for 28 years but managed to get recognition as an expert both in medicine and geology. In this documentary Sand's life is constructed using interviews and archival clips. The film is a sequel to the documentary Haluan vain elää.
Tero Sandin elämä
The third part of Jean Bitar's documentary series about Finnish children is about freestyle biking.
Freestyle

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Sotungin kylähullut
A portrait of an artist Risto Vilhunen.
Jumalainen valo - Leonardo da Vilhu
A story of Delphine, a girl who committed suicide.
Perhosen kohtalo
A sequel to the film Katrin ensimmäinen rakkaus. Katri and Kaitsu have two children and try cope with their situation while Kaitsu goes to the army.
Katrin perhe
A teenage couple move on their own and have their first child.
Katrin ensimmäinen rakkaus
The life of immigrant children in schools and in their free time in Hakunila, Vantaa.
Breaking Free in Hakunila
Beirut-born Jean Bitari's warm-hearted documentary about life in a small house area in Vantaa. In the documentary, we eat and drink, dance , hang out and renovate yards. There are concerts and events for children.
Minä ja Itä-Hakkila
A dramatized documentary film about an old Finnish man who meets a young African immigrant girl and wants to help her.