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, Shaghig Arzoumanian
Production Caroline Hatem for YAZAN

technical details

Title Men Hebb 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 September2025
Production country Lebanon

Touring

September 2025 Doc Fest - Ecrans du Réel, Cinema Metropolis, Beyrouth.

Network

2021 Walid Abdelnour (filmmaker) and Caroline Hatem (producer) were selected to take part in the Impact Lab organised by Beirut DC in collaboration with Doc Society.

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