Beirut Open City / Dokhan Bila Naar

• Release Date: 2007
• Type: Featured
• Run time: 107 Minutes
• Directed by: Samir Habshy
• Produced by: Gabriel Khoury
• Screenplay: Samir Habshy
• Cast: Khaled El Nabawy, Rodney El Haddad, Diamond Bouaboud, Cyrine Abdel Nour, Nakoula Daniel, Mahmoud Mabsout, Refaat Tarbeya, Joseph Bounassar
• Cinematography: Milad Took
• Editing: Milad Took
• Costume design: Desciée Dekashy
• Music: Gamal Abou El Hassan
• Sound: Samer Al Saidi
• Subtitles: English

Synopsis:

In the 1990s, post the civil war in Lebanon and at the height of the Syrian occupation of Lebanese territories, a photojournalist attempts to make a film about Arab authorities' brutal interrogation methods. In a separate part of the city, a newly married Lebanese man is accidentally shot to death by the U.S. ambassador's bodyguard. Seemingly unrelated events that hurtle towards each other in a city where the truth seldom seems to reveals itself from the shadows.