Acting
As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for its transgender starlet.
Across three decades of passion, loss, and hope, Nino and Yasmina are bound by a magnetic relationship. Torn between love and survival, they must decide whether to build a family in Lebanon or leave their home despite tragedies.
Mayssa is looking for a sexual release to cure her recent depression but luck – and her mother – are not on her side.
In Beirut, a couple in their early thirties turn their window into a front-row seat to the steamy lives of the neighbors across the street. What begins as witty play-by-play and harmless voyeurism quickly backfires: the more they watch, the more their own dormant sex life comes under the spotlight. As jokes sharpen into accusations, desire, ego, and resentment collide, exposing the cracks in their intimacy.
Two strangers – both hearing persons – form an instant connection at an American Sign Language event, talking exclusively in ASL. They spend the night together, strolling through NYC, enjoying a newfound attraction without a spoken word uttered between them.
Four darkly funny tales about Lebanon: Activists planning a protest descend into internal strife. Three sisters and their mother argue while an incompetent plumber destroys their flat. Depressed life coach Malek wants to die and seeks help from a «death coach». A stand-up comedian who jokes about a meteor strike that could put Lebanon out of its misery, is blamed when it appears to come true.