Rodrigue Sleiman

Still Burning

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 possessed by the same artistic vocation: Cinema, but also by the same woman: Amira. Their reunion, all night long, will not fail to awaken their old repressed demons for better or for worse.

Halal Love

Four tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.

The Traveller

A travel agent who has never travelled is sent on a business trip to Paris, only to find himself confronted by temptations he cannot handle.

The Valley

After surviving a car crash in the middle of Lebanon's isolated Beqaa Valley, an amnesiac man finds himself held hostage on a local farm that doubles as an illegal drug-production facility.

Stray Bullet

In 1976 Beirut, after a rendezvous with her old flame, soon-to-wed Noha witnesses a violent incident and changes course on a path to self-realization.

Good Morning

A former Interior Security Forces General of 80 years old, and a former Army doctor of 84, go every day to the same coffee shop, to sip quietly their espresso, and to make crossword puzzles, to avoid loss of memory, Alzheimer's disease.

Sweet discomfort of missed connections

Zahi returns from Germany to Lebanon to receive the corpse of his father who was kidnapped in the Lebanese civil war for 35 years. When he goes to the hospital to collect the corpse to bury it, he discovers that the corpse disappeared again. Zahi finds himself stuck between two worlds where he cannot relate or communicate with either of them while trying to explore the possibility of such a disappearance.

Disorder

Four darkly funny tales about Lebanon: Activists planning a protest descend into internal strife. Three sisters and their mother argue while an incompetent plumber destroys their flat. Depressed life coach Malek wants to die and seeks help from a «death coach». A stand-up comedian who jokes about a meteor strike that could put Lebanon out of its misery, is blamed when it appears to come true.

Still Burning

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 possessed by the same artistic vocation: Cinema, but also by the same woman: Amira. Their reunion, all night long, will not fail to awaken their old repressed demons for better or for worse.

Halal Love

Four tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.

The Traveller

A travel agent who has never travelled is sent on a business trip to Paris, only to find himself confronted by temptations he cannot handle.

The Valley

After surviving a car crash in the middle of Lebanon's isolated Beqaa Valley, an amnesiac man finds himself held hostage on a local farm that doubles as an illegal drug-production facility.

Stray Bullet

In 1976 Beirut, after a rendezvous with her old flame, soon-to-wed Noha witnesses a violent incident and changes course on a path to self-realization.

Good Morning

A former Interior Security Forces General of 80 years old, and a former Army doctor of 84, go every day to the same coffee shop, to sip quietly their espresso, and to make crossword puzzles, to avoid loss of memory, Alzheimer's disease.

Sweet discomfort of missed connections

Zahi returns from Germany to Lebanon to receive the corpse of his father who was kidnapped in the Lebanese civil war for 35 years. When he goes to the hospital to collect the corpse to bury it, he discovers that the corpse disappeared again. Zahi finds himself stuck between two worlds where he cannot relate or communicate with either of them while trying to explore the possibility of such a disappearance.

Disorder

Four darkly funny tales about Lebanon: Activists planning a protest descend into internal strife. Three sisters and their mother argue while an incompetent plumber destroys their flat. Depressed life coach Malek wants to die and seeks help from a «death coach». A stand-up comedian who jokes about a meteor strike that could put Lebanon out of its misery, is blamed when it appears to come true.

1982

On the eve of an invasion in 1982 Lebanon, an 11-year-old boy at a mountain school is determined to express his feelings to a classmate. As tension builds across the country, the day takes an unexpected turn, reflecting the fragile line between innocence and conflict. Through a child's eyes, the film explores the impact of war, the power of love, and the resilience of the human spirit.

Ghadi

Leba is a music instructor who lives in a small Lebanese town. Social pressure leads him to get married and have children. Lara, his beloved wife, births a girl, later other one and finally Ghadi, a boy with special needs related with Down Syndrome. Ghadi could have been a burden, but he is a cause of pride and joy for all of them —but a test too that proves the intolerance of other people.

Broken Keys

In a war-torn Middle Eastern city where music has been banned by Islamic extremists, Karim, a brilliant musician, struggles to rebuild his destroyed piano while trying to escape to Europe.

Heaven Sent

After 20 years apart, Samir a former militiaman who was presumed dead, reappears in the life of Omar, his little brother who has become a bodyguard in Beirut. Between drama and comedy, Samir has to come to terms with a country he no longer recognizes.

The Beach House

Four people from an Arab generation roaming over the ruins of ideologies, causes and virtues of their predecessors. It portrays their intellectual and emotional nonchalance about what is happening around them in their daily lives and relationships. In a house whose architecture is a sixties' experiment in mixing modern and Islamic architecture, a stone and concrete cube suspended over a rocky shore bashed by the waves of the Mediterranean, by famed Iraqi architect Refaat Chaderji, we spend a night with four characters whose non-stop conversations and peculiar actions reflect the void and chaos they are living in.

If the Sun Drowned Into an Ocean of Clouds

Beirut, Lebanon. On the waterfront’s construction site, security agent Raed must prevent passing-by walkers from accessing the seaside. Yet as the horizon becomes each day more stifled by the construction, Raed makes peculiar encounters—mere dreams, or symbols of his desires?

Al-Shahroura

A biography about the artist Sabah (Al-Shahroura) following her professional and personal life from the age of seventeen, addressing the problems that she has experienced since her adolescence in Lebanon, and her adoption in Egypt, her children, and her many husbands, in addition to her family.

Not Me

Mish Ana (2016) follows Majd, who returns to Lebanon and unexpectedly falls for Hanna, a warm, selfless woman trapped in social and personal struggles. As secrets surface and family pressures mount, their connection grows through humor, compassion, and resilience. The series blends romance, light comedy, and social drama in a heartfelt, character‑driven story.

Blood Oath

Salim Fayad is an ordinary pharmaceutical company owner whose life is shattered in seconds when his car kills the daughter of Lebanon's most feared drug lord. Instead of revenge, the dealer makes him an offer — become his personal assassin, or watch his family die. A Lebanese thriller adapted from the celebrated Serbian series Besa, following a decent man's descent into a world he was never meant to inhabit, doing terrible things to protect the people he loves.

The Magician

A thriller that depicts the life of a charismatic man who gets involved with a dangerous group, and he soon realizes that the only way out is to play along until you become the master.

On the Edge

Eight years after her husband's disappearance, a Syrian woman named Leila lives in Beirut, where she works in a pharmacy. But her simple life hides secrets that will change her world forever.