Akram Zaatari Movies

‘Objects of War’ is a series of testimonials on the Lebanese war. Each person chooses an object, ordinary or unusual, which serves as a...

One of Zaatari’s earliest experiments in documentary video, All Is Well on the Border emerged from the filmmaker’s desire to understand...

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...

Shot on Gouraud Street in Gemayzeh and edited by Zaatari in Beirut, Lebanon.

Set in the industrial suburbs of Beirut, Majnounak explores male sexuality through interviews with men who recount one of their sexual relationships....

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...

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...

An eleven-minute film by Akram Zaatari from 1995. Memories and images of childhood are reflected both on the screen and in the small mirror that a...

A journalist and a photographer drift on their way between Beirut and Baalbeck. Their journey is repeated three times in three different ways to...

The Script is born out of the artist’s research into online content connected with the Arab world. Exploring YouTube using relatively neutral...

"Zaatari got his start in the freewheeling and somewhat rough-and-tumble world of Lebanese television in the mid-1990s. Zaatari was hired in 1995 as...

This portrait of famed Armenian-Egyptian studio photographer Van Leo, whose career spanned some 50 years, is also a reflection on transformations in...

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

It is a critique of television's promotion of political figures. A candidate running for presidency talks about his political agenda and addresses...

"A 4 channel video installation based on youtube material made by individuals filming themselves in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia,...

TEACH ME is an interpretation of iconic images. This short essay is built on the ascription of a new meaning to TV news footage. The mingling of news...

This is a recording of a silent moment, in which 2 men prepare themselves for a military action. While the older one leaves in the end, weapon to his...

A documentary crew digs up a letter from a Lebanese socialist resistance fighter.

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