Khaled El Sayed

Alephia 2053 (2021)

The film plunges the viewer into 2053, in Alephia, a fictional Arab country, "Dystopian and imaginary", whose name is taken from Aleph, the first letter of the Arabic alphabet and "ia" (or "ya"), the last letter of this alphabet. Three characters will unit ...

Taxi Ballad (2012)

A taxi driver new to Beirut forms an unlikely bond with a bored American Pilates instructor who loves hearing him tell stories about his past. ...

Charbel: The Movie (2009)

Life of saint monk Charbel Makhluf ...

Once Upon a Time in Beirut (1995)

Two young girls of the war generation, Yasmin and Leila, are in search of Beirut. When they meet an elderly film enthusiast with a secret store of Lebanese films, they persuade him to screen his collection for them. So begins an initiation into the myths a ...

Nagi El-Ali (1992)

After the assassination of the Palestinian artist Naji Al-Ali in London in 1987, the film flashes back to the stops that he went through in his life, starting from his displacement with his family to Lebanon, to his work in Kuwait, to his return to Lebanon ...

The Days of Lulu (1986)

The Razor's Edge (1985)

Samar, a child of the war, finds relief from the chaos around her through Egyptian movies she watches on television. Karim, an artist in retreat from life, remains in his apartment in war-torn West Beirut, confident that he is safe in his familiar neighbor ...

A Hero's Return (1983)

A group of young athletes in the field of bodybuilding plan to achieve tournaments, but a girl intervenes among them in order to tear them apart, so they won't succeed. She pulls it off at first, and one of them walks away from his friends but a surprise c ...