LBN 2

A story that reflects on Lebanese society through a family whose life is suspended like everything else in the country.

A sniper lives alone on a country’s border, shooting refugees attempting to cross. One day he finds the tape of his victim’s war diary and begins to listen to it.

The lives of two women — Maki, a suicidal Ethiopian migrant worker and Zorro, an out-of-work actress — intersect when a diamond-smuggling operation in Beirut goes terribly wrong.

A mother who is awaiting the return of her daughter spends the day smoking and tormenting the household staff so as not to face her pain.

Mohammad is a Syrian migrant working on a construction site in Beirut. One morning, something pushes him to volunteer as crane operator on one of the tallest and notoriously most dangerous cranes in Lebanon...

Maabar is an on-going podcast series retracing the modern history of Lebanon through first-hand stories. Cutting across two genres — oral History and documentary — the cascade of stories told depicts a people-centered, multi-faceted view of what took place and the…