In 2026, we mark the 800th anniversary of the death of Saint Francis of Assisi, a figure who continues to resonate across centuries, especially in times marked by conflict.

Today, his image speaks again in troubled times. Francis addressed a fractured world, choosing humility over power, silence over noise, and presence over destruction.

In this light, his image is more than just a frozen moment from the past; it invites us to pay attention to the present as it unfolds.

Conceived as a journey through cinema, The Face and the Threshold traces his presence across time through the works of Roberto Rossellini, Franco Zeffirelli, Liliana Cavani, Susanna Nicchiarelli and Enrico Guazzoni.

Saint Francis isn’t only returning to the screen, he’s inviting us for a moment of pause, observation, and reflection.

Ticket price: 500.000 LBP

Tickets are available via Metropolis Cinema and Antoine Ticketing.

In a time that calls for both reflection and gathering, we are screening Do You Love Me by Lana Daher this Thursday 2 April at 7:00 PM, followed by a Q&A session with the director and Rima Mismar (Executive Director of AFAC).

Composed entirely of archival footage spanning 70 years, the film brings together fragments of Lebanon’s audiovisual memory-films, television, and personal archives into a vivid, intimate portrait of a country shaped by both beauty and rupture.

Moving between joy and loss, it traces a history that feels anything but distant. Watching it today, these images resonate differently, echoing the realities we are once again living through.

In a time like this, revisiting these fragments is not just an act of looking back,
but a way of holding on to memory, to perspective, and to the stories that continue to define us.

A special screening for a moment that asks us, once again, to reflect on what remains.

The film will be screening in Arabic with English subtitles.

The Q&A will be conducted in Arabic.

Ticket price: 800.000LBP
Tickets are sold exclusively at the cinema starting 4.00 PM.

Unclaimed reservations will be canceled one hour prior to the screening

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Dans le cadre du Mois de la Francophonie 2026

Sous le patronage du Ministère de la Culture

L'Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) et les Ambassades d'Arménie, du Canada et de la Suisse en collaboration avec UGAB-Liban présentent le Mois du Film Francophone.

Programme des projections à 20h00 :

3/3/2026 : Tirez sur le pianiste - Un film de François Truffaut

10/3/2026 : Monsieur Lazhar - Un film de Philippe Falardeau 

17/3/2026 : Les Filles du Nil - Un film de Nada Riyadh et Ayman El Amir

24/3/2026 : Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens - Un film d'Alain Ughetto

Entrée libre

RSVP : +961 81 069 530 (actif entre 16h00 et 21h00)

Metropolis Cinema, under a program financed by Ambassade de France / Institut français du Liban, is launching a call for participation for a 6 months long professional training program dedicated to film programming, marketing and management of cultural screening venues and alternative spaces located outside Beirut.

Designed as a comprehensive capacity-building program, this training aims to equip participants with both the conceptual tools and the practical skills necessary to develop, program, communicate, and manage independent cinema and cultural spaces.

The Italian Cultural Institute in Beirut, in collaboration with Metropolis Art Cinema, presents
an intensive screenwriting workshop led by filmmakers and screenwriters Antonio Piazza
and Fabio Grassadonia, two of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Italian cinema.
Acclaimed at major international film festivals, Piazza and Grassadonia have developed a
body of work deeply rooted in screenwriting, world-building and the creation of complex,
memorable characters. In this workshop, they place their experience at the service of
writers and directors interested in developing a fiction project through a rigorous, in-depth
and shared creative process.

بالشراكة مع جمعية متروبوليس، يطلق مهرجان السينما الأوروبية في لبنان الذي تنظّمه بعثة الاتحاد الأوروبي في لبنان والدول الأعضاء في الاتحاد الأوروبي، دعوة عامة للفنانين ومصممي الغرافيك ومصممي الملصقات لإعادة تصميم ملصقات أفلام سينما أوروبية.

ستشارك الأعمال الفنية المختارة في معرض ملصقات خاص يتم تنظيمه في إطار الدورة الثلاثين لمهرجان الفيلم الأوروبي في لبنان.

The European Film Festival in Lebanon, organized by the European Delegation in Lebanon and the Member States of the European Union, in partnership with the Metropolis Association, is launching a public call targeting visual artists, graphic designers and illustrators to reinterpret artworks of acclaimed European films.

The selected artworks will participate in a special Poster Exhibition organized in the framework of the 30th edition of the European Film Festival in Lebanon.

Organized in the framework of Metropolis’ Cinematheque Beirut project, this festival is dedicated to film archives and archival practices, creating encounters with seminal and restored films, as well as films that re-use archival material. The festival will include screenings, performances, and talks and will take place at Metropolis Cinema from the 6th until the 14th of February 2026. 

In the framework of the 30th European Film Festival in Lebanon, organized by the European Union Delegation in Lebanon in partnership with the Member States of the European Union and the Metropolis Association, a Call for Short Films is organized.

Throughout its previous editions, the European Film Festival has been keen on supporting the talents of young audio-visual and cinema students in Lebanon. University students and up-and-coming directors with short films produced in Lebanon in the last two years are invited to submit their films.

A jury of film industry professionals will oversee this competition to select two winners.