Michel Kammoun

This black humor pan-Arabic anthology series is about love in general – and relationships in particular.

Everything bad that can happen on the way to a party happens to young Tou on this nighttime trip though Beirut.

Beirut Hold’em depicts the life of Ziko, a 40-year old ex-con and petty gambler, and his three boyhood friends, in a seedy, lower-middle class district of Beirut. They’re fighting their way into a country on the edge of war and bankruptcy, where instability makes everyday life feel like Russian roulette, and sheer existence is yet another form of gambling.

Take a man who wants to have a shower. Put him in an angry bathroom. Blend them for 10 minutes. Then watch...