Wajdi Mouawad

Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness. ...

Skies of Lebanon (2021)

In the fifties, young Alice leaves her natal Swiss mountains for the sunny and vibrant shores of Beirut. She falls madly in love with Joseph, a quirky astrophysicist intent on sending the first Lebanese national into space. Alice quickly fits in among his ...

Still Burning (2016)

Still Burning tells the unexpected reunion in Paris in June 1998 of André, a Lebanese filmmaker living and working in France, and Walid, the very close friend he has not seen for years. In their youth, in Beirut, during the civil war, they were both posse ...

Pays revé (2012)

A Scent of Mint (2002)

This documentary recounts filmmaker Pierre Sidaoui's immigration journey from the small Lebanese town of Abey to Montreal, the city he now calls home. Sidaoui had a carefree childhood, but civil war forced him and his family to flee Lebanon in 1982, the fi ...

Incêndios (2014)

Brazilian adaptation of Wajdi Mouawad's "Incendies," based on parts of the life of the Lebanese communist militant Soha Bechara. ...

Incendies (2010)

A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-roote ...

Tideline (2004)

His father's untimely death sends young Wahab into an intense turmoil. Shaken by family feuds and what he discovers, he decides to bury his father in his native Lebanon. But the idea will prove no less trying in a country scarred by war where a new corpse ...