Hadi Bou Ayash

A young man's tragic death at Beirut's seaside causes his friends to grapple with loss and to partake in his community's rites and ceremonies, exposing the city's schisms and its society's fault lines

Despite living in a doomed country that hangs by a thread, Joud, a handsome sound engineer meets and falls in love with strong and free-spirited Rana. The young lovers, from completely different social and religious backgrounds, are drawn closer to each other, but a drastic turn of events gets between them and Rana suddenly slips away. As her parents forbid Joud from seeing her, the young man determined to see her again, finds new means of communicating with her by convincing Marwa, her sister, to download his voice messages and secretly play them to Rana

As the refugee problem increases day by day, Derin's anger grows day by day as she cannot overcome the issues with her mother. Feeling stuck and exhausted, Derin has only one goal: to leave the country! But will this change when she befriends her Canadian neighbor who moved across the street from her house?