Akram Zaatari Movies

Taking the idea of loss and dispossession as a starting point, this film is a reflection on photography and its people. It looks at the position of...

A documentary crew digs up a letter from a Lebanese socialist resistance fighter.

Lebanese artist-filmmaker Zaatari conducts both an investigation and a stirring tribute to an act of resistance (or forbearance) that marked his...

It is a critique of television's promotion of political figures. A candidate running for presidency talks about his political agenda and addresses...

This work deals with the discovery of light and of its power to reconstruct images. Through a boy who discovers the possibilities of framing and...

On Photography, People and Modern Times is a two-channel video installation that tracks photographic records that Akram Zaatari researched and...

One of Zaatari’s earliest experiments in documentary video, All Is Well on the Border emerged from the filmmaker’s desire to understand...

In the courtyard of an old house in Saida, a woman is rehearsing a scene from a movie. She introduces her family, and the camera records both...