Akram Zaatari Movies

GIFT discusses the idea of public space : on a public beach, right across from a residential block, a young boy begs the filmmaker to let him join...

A late night online chat between two men who haven't met since the turn of the millennium leads to their reunion after ten years of separation. The...

Lebanese artist-filmmaker Zaatari conducts both an investigation and a stirring tribute to an act of resistance (or forbearance) that marked his...

Taking the idea of loss and dispossession as a starting point, this film is a reflection on photography and its people. It looks at the position of...

On Photography, People and Modern Times is a two-channel video installation that tracks photographic records that Akram Zaatari researched and...

This work deals with the discovery of light and of its power to reconstruct images. Through a boy who discovers the possibilities of framing and...

Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem explores the work of photographer Hashem el Madani, who has run a commercial photography studio in southern Lebanon...

In the courtyard of an old house in Saida, a woman is rehearsing a scene from a movie. She introduces her family, and the camera records both...