Nabil Assaf

Julia is an actress playing small parts, aspiring to take leading roles and prove herself as a star. She gets into character deeply, till she becomes the character she's playing for a period, which gets her into many comic situations.

When widower Ramzi — a man in his sixties — announces he's marrying Nisrine, a woman young enough to be his daughter, his son Jad and Jad's girlfriend Sila are furious. What follows is a battle of wills as the family schemes to drive Nisrine away, while she fights to hold her ground. A Lebanese Ramadan drama praised for its cinematic quality, realistic characters and escalating tension — viewers found themselves genuinely divided over who to root for. Stars Rita Hayek and Carlos Azar.

Among the Syrian refugees who were forced out of their country due to the war, the dean of a Lebanese college is forced to leave his job behind and turn his attention into investigating a mystifying crime.

One of the most popular Lebanese films of the late 1990s, Around the Pink House is a story that explores the changing urban landscape of Beirut after the Civil War. La maison rose (the pink house) is an old mansion in Beirut where the Nawfal family found shelter during the Civil War. Unfortunately for them, their immediate environment is rapidly changing, as many of the old shell-ridden buildings are being torn down and replaced by new construction projects. When Mattar, the owner of the pink house, decides to sell it to make room for a large commercial centre, the residents of the neighbourhood become divided between the shopkeepers and businessmen in favour of a different kind of modernity.