
Directing
Elie Khalifé
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Directing
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11 titles
Elie Khalife is a Lebanese director, screenwriter and producer whose career spans over two decades and multiple award-winning projects. Elie studied film at the Geneva University of Art and Design (ESAV-HEAD). Lebanon is both the backdrop and inspiration to his work. Elie's body of work is primarily based on his own material and showcases his comedic streak with award-winning shorts like "Taxi Service" (1996), "Merci Natex" (1998) and his first feature "Yanoosak" (2010). Elie also directed "Single Married Divorced" (2015), a highly popular comedy. "State of Agitation" (2020) is his third feature film and the first in which he acts.
Known for
NRYanoosak tells the story of Rudi, an ordinary Swiss German living in Zurich, who decides one day to reside in Beirut in order to meet his soul mate and establish a small business.
Yanoosak
2010
Tarek, a taxi driver delivers a passenger to an insane asylum called “L’Oisellerie” (aviary) for a brief visit. In this place of peace, whose inmates would like nothing better than their freedom, Tarek finds that leaving is not so easy.
Taxi Service
1996
NR18 Lebanese filmmakers, driven by the ongoing war in Gaza, transform their personal letters of turmoil into a series of powerful short films, unaware that their own country is on the brink of facing a similar tragic fate.
Letters
2025
NRLiving in Beirut, a highly enthusiastic filmmaker is in a state of hyper inspiration characterized by an overfiow of contrasting ideas. As a consequence, his characters will go through compelling and extraordinary circumstances. To clear his mind, he heads north where a screening of his short films is scheduled in a rural public school. A series of encounters along the way will turn his world upside down.
State of Agitation
2020
NRA social comedy about four women in their late 30s who have to face the pressure of the society for being singles.
Yalla Aa'belkon: Single, Married, Divorced
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Other Passenger
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Film credits
Behind the camera
NRYanoosak tells the story of Rudi, an ordinary Swiss German living in Zurich, who decides one day to reside in Beirut in order to meet his soul mate and establish a small business.
Yanoosak
2010
Tarek, a taxi driver delivers a passenger to an insane asylum called “L’Oisellerie” (aviary) for a brief visit. In this place of peace, whose inmates would like nothing better than their freedom, Tarek finds that leaving is not so easy.
Taxi Service
1996
Tarek, a taxi driver delivers a passenger to an insane asylum called “L’Oisellerie” (aviary) for a brief visit. In this place of peace, whose inmates would like nothing better than their freedom, Tarek finds that leaving is not so easy.
Taxi Service
1996
NR18 Lebanese filmmakers, driven by the ongoing war in Gaza, transform their personal letters of turmoil into a series of powerful short films, unaware that their own country is on the brink of facing a similar tragic fate.
Letters
2025
NRLiving in Beirut, a highly enthusiastic filmmaker is in a state of hyper inspiration characterized by an overfiow of contrasting ideas. As a consequence, his characters will go through compelling and extraordinary circumstances. To clear his mind, he heads north where a screening of his short films is scheduled in a rural public school. A series of encounters along the way will turn his world upside down.
State of Agitation
2020
NRLiving in Beirut, a highly enthusiastic filmmaker is in a state of hyper inspiration characterized by an overfiow of contrasting ideas. As a consequence, his characters will go through compelling and extraordinary circumstances. To clear his mind, he heads north where a screening of his short films is scheduled in a rural public school. A series of encounters along the way will turn his world upside down.
State of Agitation
2020
NRLiving in Beirut, a highly enthusiastic filmmaker is in a state of hyper inspiration characterized by an overfiow of contrasting ideas. As a consequence, his characters will go through compelling and extraordinary circumstances. To clear his mind, he heads north where a screening of his short films is scheduled in a rural public school. A series of encounters along the way will turn his world upside down.
State of Agitation
2020
NRA social comedy about four women in their late 30s who have to face the pressure of the society for being singles.
Yalla Aa'belkon: Single, Married, Divorced
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Other Passenger
—
Farès is a farmer in a small remote village of the Lebanese mountains. He works on the land with the help of his wife Salma and their three children. One day, he wins a contest organised by a brand of paper hankies, and receives a present in an enormous wooden crate. The unexpected gift is destined to change things forever in this once peaceful little village.
Merci Natex
1998
