Movies: Manal Issa

  • 2022
    The Swimmers

    The Swimmers (2022)

    The Swimmers

    7.42022HD

    From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use....

    The Swimmers
  • 2016
    Nocturama

    Nocturama (2016)

    Nocturama

    6.42016HD

    Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center....

    Nocturama
  • 2019
    Father & Sons

    Father & Sons (2019)

    Father & Sons

    5.52019HD

    Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is losing control of his life. Joachim is supposed to be studying psychiatry but spends most of his time daydreaming about his ex-girlfriend, Ivan canno...

    Father & Sons
  • 2025
    The 4th Wall

    The 4th Wall (2025)

    The 4th Wall

    02025HD

    Lebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: to stage the play Antigone on the front line, in order to steal a moment of peace from the rag...

    The 4th Wall
  • 2016
    Parisienne

    Parisienne (2016)

    Parisienne

    5.92016HD

    18-year-old Lina arrives in Paris for her studies. She comes to look for what she has never found in Lebanon, her country of origin: a certain form of freedom. The survival instinct as the only baggage, she sails from one Paris to another to the rhyt...

    Parisienne
  • 2020
    Où en êtes-vous? (Numéro 2)

    Où en êtes-vous? (Numéro 2) (2020)

    Où en êtes-vous? (Numéro 2)

    02020HD

    Video #2 of Finite Rants, a series of eight visual essays commissioned by Fondazione Prada and curated by Luigi Alberto Cippini and Niccolò Gravina. Bertrand Bonello reworks the last minutes of his 2016 film Nocturama, which documents the logistical ...

    Où en êtes-vous? (Numéro 2)
  • 2021
    Memory Box

    Memory Box (2021)

    Memory Box

    6.32021HD

    Maia, a single mother, lives in Montreal with her teenage daughter, Alex. On Christmas Eve, they receive an unexpected delivery: notebooks, tapes, and photos Maia, from 13 to 18 years old, sent from Beirut to her best friend who left for Paris to esc...

    Memory Box
  • 2024
    Disorder

    Disorder (2024)

    Disorder

    102024HD

    A multi-layered portrait of the turbulent and pivotal years that Lebanon has been living, since the big collapse of 2019 and the 2020 Beirut Port explosion, through four stories mixing drama and dark comedy....

    Disorder
  • 2019
    Golden Youth

    Golden Youth (2019)

    Golden Youth

    4.32019HD

    Paris, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enjoy their crazy love under the neon lights of the decadent nightclub Le Palace, where they establish an ambiguous relationship with Lucille and Hubert,...

    Golden Youth
  • 2023
    Madness

    Madness (2023)

    Madness

    6.82023HD

    Following an accident on a set, a director tries to pick up the pieces of reality....

    Madness
  • 2023
    Black Box

    Black Box (2023)

    Black Box

    52023HD

    The exits of a Berlin courtyard are blocked by the police due to an ambiguous event outside and a state of emergency occurs. Among the residents of the building, insecurities start to pump fear. Suspicion takes over panic, prejudices bring polarizati...

    Black Box
  • 2018
    My Favourite Fabric

    My Favourite Fabric (2018)

    My Favourite Fabric

    5.92018HD

    Damascus, Spring 2011. It's the early stages of the civil war. 25-year-old Nahla is torn between her desire for freedom and the hope of leaving the country thanks to her arranged marriage with Samir, a Syrian expatriate in the USA. When he chooses he...

    My Favourite Fabric
  • 2024
    The Listening Tapes

    The Listening Tapes (2024)

    The Listening Tapes

    02024HD

    In three reenactments of a controversial 1983 television interview, actors Manal Issa, Aïssa Maïga, and Isabel Sandoval play late French actress Maria Schneider. “The Listening Takes” is a prescient confrontation with the patriarchal structure of th...

    The Listening Tapes
  • 2024
    Manal Issa

    Manal Issa (2024)

    Manal Issa

    02024HD

    "Manal Issa" is a sequel to Elisabeth Subrin's "The Listening Tapes" culled from hours of conversations between Elisabeth in the U.S. and Manal in Lebanon. It intimately considers the role of the actor during the unfolding global conflict. [Overview...

    Manal Issa
  • 2023
    Datæterna

    Datæterna (2023)

    Datæterna

    82023HD

    In the near future, a micro-worker performs tasks that are suggested to her. Between data center maintenance and data processing, she hesitantly searches for ways to feel emotions. Devoid of social links, this world is saturated with data....

    Datæterna
  • 2019
    Malek

    Malek (2019)

    Malek

    42019HD

    Malek, a Lebanese immigrant from Montreal, is haunted by the violent death of his sister. Convinced that he could have avoided this tragedy, he is consumed with guilt. He lives alone, poor, jobless until he meets Shohreh, an Iranian girl, with whom h...

    Malek
  • 2022
    The Sea Ahead

    The Sea Ahead (2022)

    The Sea Ahead

    4.32022HD

    A young woman makes her way back home to her parents’ house in the middle of the night leaving a bad experience behind. Haunting pressures to fit back into the family dynamics as well as revealing details of her life abroad weigh heavy on her. Feelin...

    The Sea Ahead
  • 2017
    The Revelations 2017

    The Revelations 2017 (2017)

    The Revelations 2017

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    For this 11th edition, the brilliant Valérie Donzelli demonstrates all her attachment to youth by associating her talent with the 34 Revelations 2017. A true surge of poetry and romanticism, Valérie Donzelli's cinema touches, disconcerts and makes u...

    The Revelations 2017
  • 2023
    The Anger

    The Anger (2023)

    The Anger

    02023HD

    In post-war Lebanon, Ida, a young Lebanese girl, flees her small village and her alcoholic mother and goes to the big city. There, she starts dating a European man not knowing what is in store for her....

    The Anger
  • 2023
    Elektra

    Elektra (2023)

    Elektra

    02023HD

    Set in the desolate wreckage of Beirut’s Piccadilly Theater after decades of war, the film recounts three days in the life of a writer and actors. As they seek to revive the ghostly theater with a production of Sophocles’ Elektra, the actors witness ...

    Elektra