The best Julian Farhat’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Julian Farhat’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Julian Farhat.
Where Do We Go Now?
7.4/10
On a remote, isolated, unnamed Lebanese village inhabited by both Muslims and Christians. The village is surrounded by land mines and only reachable by a small bridge. As civil strife engulfed the country, the women in the village learn of this fact and try, by various means and to varying success, to keep their men in the dark, sabotaging the village radio, then destroying the village TV.
Broken Keys
6.5/10
A pianist tries to escape his persecuted Middle-eastern town where modern ways of living and music have been banned by an extremist group.
Submarine
7.1/10
Under the imminent threat of Lebanon's garbage crisis, Hala, a wild child inside of a woman, is the only one to refuse evacuation, clinging to whatever remains of home.
Typo
8.6/10
Faced with an impossible choice, a young man discovers he is dead 8 years earlier to his decided time, that divine mistake can be only corrected by one of two ways.
The Beach House
6.1/10
The Beach House is a film about four people from an Arab generation roaming over the ruins of ideologies, causes and virtues of their predecessors. It portrays their intellectual and emotional nonchalance about what is happening around them in their daily lives and relationships. In a house whose architecture is a sixties' experiment in mixing modern and Islamic architecture, a stone and concrete cube suspended over a rocky shore bashed by the waves of the Mediterranean, by famed Iraqi architect Refaat Chaderji, we spend a night with four characters whose non-stop conversations and peculiar actions reflect the void and chaos they are living in.
One of These Days
5.9/10
Beirut, on an autumn day. The city is on the edge of chaos, but for Maya, Tarek, Yasmina and Rami, aged between 17 and 22 years old, it is just an ordinary day during which they question themselves about sex, love and night time hanging out.
Lilacs
6.2/10
Hanna, a melancholic woman, comes to Lebanon after 12 years absence. She wants to find her twin brother who has been kidnapped during the Lebanese civil war.
