Credits

Director, Editor  Walid Abdelnour
Image Joude Gorani
Sound Design, Mixing, additional editing Kinda Hassan
Coloring Adam Finn
Music Kinematik with original theme by Anthony Abou Khalifé
Sound recordist Caroline Hatem, Chaghig Arzoumanian
Producer Caroline Hatem for YAZAN

technical details

Title Men Hebba wa Debb, Lebanon by Night, Nuits Libanaises
Length 110 minutes
Image 16:9 (Anamorphic), Color
Sound Stereo
Original Language Arabic
Subtitles English, French
Type Documentary
End of Production date September 2025
Production country Lebanon

SCREENING

FESTIVAL ECRANS DU REEL, BEIRUT, 2025
FESTIVAL DU FILM FRANCO-ARABE DE NOISY-LE-SEC, 2025
KARACHI WORLD CULTURE FESTIVAL, 2025
MIGRATION MATTERS, STOCKHOLM, 2026
FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL JEAN ROUCH, PARIS, 2026 (official selection)

In 2014, all around Mount Lebanon, a curfew has been imposed on male Syrian workers, which bans them from the streets after dark. The film examines the mechanisms that lead to such measures. By exploring a variety of characters ranging from local residents, migrant workers to vigilante guys imposing the curfew by themselves, it dives into the atmosphere that leads to the violence of such invisible procedures.

Politically daring, Men Hebba Wa debb (Lebanon by Night) explores an acute situation of inequality and in-your-face breach in basic human rights, ongoing today.