The Embassy of Brazil in Beirut and Guimarães Rosa Institute - Beirut, in partnership with Metropolis Cinema Association, are pleased to convene the 8th Brazilian Film Festival, set to take place from June 16 to June 20, 2026 at Metropolis Cinema.

Through the power of cinema, the festival brings audiences together, despite challenging circumstances, to discover the diversity of contemporary Brazilian storytelling.

This year’s edition brings together a vibrant selection of contemporary Brazilian cinema, showcasing some of the country’s most acclaimed recent productions alongside a landmark classic.

Join us for the launch of the first volume of the three-volume series The Collected Writings (1991–2024) of a Mortal to Death: Jalal Toufic. The evening will include a short talk by Jalal Toufic, followed by a conversation with artist Walid Raad, a Q&A with the audience, and a book signing.

For 20 years, Metropolis Cinema has been shaped by films, by spaces, by crises, by comebacks - but most importantly, by the people who kept coming back.

To mark our 20th anniversary in July, we are collecting the memories that made this cinema what it is.

We invite you to film yourself and share your favourite Metropolis memory.

It can be a screening you will never forget, a film that stayed with you long after it ended, a night you argued until closing time, a first visit, a last-minute decision that changed your evening, or simply a moment you remember feeling at home in a cinema.

Deadline; June 20, 2026

South Screens returns with its second edition.

In times shaped by war, silence, and uncertainty, we gather once again around cinema; not to escape reality, but to face it together. This second edition looks toward the geographies of the Global South as a space for dialogue, resistance, and imagination.

Films, conversations, encounters, voices.

Happening from May 28 to June 6 2026

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.