Where do I begin?

How are you feeling? What is your state of mind? Are you able to face the day?
How do you take care of someone with a mental disorder?

"Where Do I Begin?" is a documentary that sheds light on the state of mental health and those suffering from disorders in Lebanon; a universal topic that touches all societies and individuals.

The documentary covers a wide range of issues through interviews with specialists and through touching personal accounts of persons living and coping with various mental health disorders, ranging from anxiety and depression to schizophrenia, to autism.

Through this documentary, key questions are raised about the nature of mental health, social stigma and access to mental health care, especially the most vulnerable populations.

Koullouna lil Watan

According to the Lebanese nationality law Lebanese women who choose to marry a foreign man are denied the right to extend their citizenship to their husbands and children. Without citizenship, those families are denied most social, civil and economic rights.

This documentary is told through the intimate stories of five Lebanese families from different social, religious and economic backgrounds but whose lives and experiences are bound together by a discriminatory nationality law".

I Come from a Beautiful Place

The film describes the lives of five refugees in Lebanon. One of them, Mohammad from Darfur, finds his three brothers and three of his sisters killed, his mother moments away from death. He decides to flee the conflict in Sudan and make his way to Lebanon, where he becomes one of the 9,000 non-Palestinian refugees and asylum seekers being cared for by UNHCR.

A Summer not to Forget

On July 12th 2006, Hezbollah captured 2 Israeli soldiers. For the following 34 days, Lebanon witnessed continuous Israeli bombardment. This documentary takes you beyond the news headlines into the harsh realities of war. Through powerful and often disturbing images, this documentary explores the devastation of a nation and a people caught under siege. In footage not shown by the Western media, the film exposes the devastation of 57 collective massacres in an attempt to capture the horror of its victims and their families.

Maid in Lebanon

Thousands of Asian women leave their homes each year to work as maids in the Arab World with the hope of securing a better economic future. Yet since their experiences are hidden behind closed doors, little is known of the fears and struggles they face while abroad. Tracing women's journeys from Sri Lanka to Lebanon, this film exposes the little known world of the domestic migrant worker. While some are able to succeed, many do not. In their own voices, the women in this film reveal cases of torture, rape, physical and mental abuse, and non-payment of wages.

The documentary explores the questions of why women migrate, why they often return to the Middle East multiple times, and why abuses occur. (Caristas, ILO, Netherlands Embassy).

Maid in Lebanon 2 : Voices from Home

A documentary that explores the complexity of the relationship between migrant domestic workers and the Lebanese households as employers in a factual, and at times humorous and touching manner. This documentary chronicles the life of women migrant domestic workers within the Lebanese society: their joys, pains, expectations, deception and their humanity.

Maid in Lebanon II: Voices from home poses questions and suggests answers on worker's rights, employment contracts and everyday terms and conditions of work. It emphasized the importance of improving cross-cultural understanding and encouraging new patterns of working relationships.

100% asphalt

A street tells its own story. A street that shelters more than 200 million children with only asphalt, noise and rage as their home. 200 million children in "100% asphalt". A film from the heart, in the heart of life, shot on the streets in the heart of the city; a film that narrates the unspeakable. 26 minutes of testimonies from abandoned children, left to their misery, violence and drugs.

Invisible Children

Invisible Children, one of the few films on child labor in the country, provides a sensitive look into the tragic and triumphant lives of working children through personal interviews with the youth themselves. The young people take you on an emotional journey though their work, family lives and communities.

Voices from Yemen

This documentary is a glimpse into the lives of working women and men in the ministry of Social Affairs in Yemen. Through their voices, they express their experiences, daily challenges and choices. Women reflect on the delicate balance of their multi roles and their continuous struggle to negotiate their rights - the rights which their society may question. Men share their inner thoughts. Both personal insights reflect their concerns of the existing and changing relations between women and men in Yemen.