Ali Mneimneh

Thinking they're doing the right thing by taking matters into their own hands, two brothers cross the line when they take a household rifle without their father's consent. Set in contemporary middle class rural Lebanon, a country with a porous border constantly threatened by hostile infiltration, this coming-of-age story examines fraternal trust and brings into focus the ethics of seemingly innocuous violence and its consequences.

Eight years after her husband's disappearance, a Syrian woman named Leila lives in Beirut, where she works in a pharmacy. But her simple life hides secrets that will change her world forever.