Directing

Elias Matar

Known for

Directing

Credits

12 titles

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

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4.0

A wounded young soldier and a psychologically damaged girl get caught in the crossfire between her estranged family and an Armenian hitman.

Ribbons

2016

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4.0

A wounded young soldier and a psychologically damaged girl get caught in the crossfire between her estranged family and an Armenian hitman.

Ribbons

2016

Exodus poster
NR

Exodus documents the harrowing journey of Syrian refugees as they cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey into Greece. Over three thousand refugees attempt this treacherous crossing everyday, seeking asylum in Western Europe. It's a life and death gamble that they are willing to take for a chance at a new life away from their war-torn homeland.

Exodus

2017

Chingaso the Clown poster
5.0

A man paints his face and heads off to seek revenge on crime kingpin Bastard the Clown and his Clown Army.

Chingaso the Clown

2006

Ashes poster
4.5

An obsessive doctor working on a cure for AIDS unwittingly creates an aggressive new bacteria that deteriorates the body and enrages the mind.

Ashes

2010

Ashes poster
4.5

An obsessive doctor working on a cure for AIDS unwittingly creates an aggressive new bacteria that deteriorates the body and enrages the mind.

Ashes

2010

What Is Buried Must Remain poster
5.0

Set in Lebanon, What Is Buried Must Remain is a modern ghost story with ancient roots. When three young filmmakers set out to make a documentary about a French industrialist, accused of murdering his family, they are confronted by supernatural forces engaged in a war for the very soul of the land.

What Is Buried Must Remain

2022

What Is Buried Must Remain poster
5.0

Set in Lebanon, What Is Buried Must Remain is a modern ghost story with ancient roots. When three young filmmakers set out to make a documentary about a French industrialist, accused of murdering his family, they are confronted by supernatural forces engaged in a war for the very soul of the land.

What Is Buried Must Remain

2022

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NR

Children of Beqaa documents director Elias Matar and his daughter Lyla, traveling to the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon in June of 2016 to work with Salam LADC, a local NGO, in response to the Syrian refugee crisis.

Children of Beqaa

2018

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Children of Beqaa documents director Elias Matar and his daughter Lyla, traveling to the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon in June of 2016 to work with Salam LADC, a local NGO, in response to the Syrian refugee crisis.

Children of Beqaa

2018

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Children of Beqaa documents director Elias Matar and his daughter Lyla, traveling to the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon in June of 2016 to work with Salam LADC, a local NGO, in response to the Syrian refugee crisis.

Children of Beqaa

2018