Acting

Rafik Ali Ahmad

Born 1954-04-13

Acting credits

The Other poster
7.7

A man who survives an earthquake is convinced that there is another man still stuck in the debris.

The Other

1991

Leila and the Wolves poster
6.6

Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic pattern, Leila and the Wolves is an exploration of the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in history throughout the past half century both in Palestine and in Lebanon.

Leila and the Wolves

1986

Listen poster
4.3

Despite living in a doomed country that hangs by a thread, Joud, a handsome sound engineer meets and falls in love with strong and free-spirited Rana. The young lovers, from completely different social and religious backgrounds, are drawn closer to each other, but a drastic turn of events gets between them and Rana suddenly slips away. As her parents forbid Joud from seeing her, the young man determined to see her again, finds new means of communicating with her by convincing Marwa, her sister, to download his voice messages and secretly play them to Rana

Listen

2017

Falafel poster
4.3

Everything bad that can happen on the way to a party happens to young Tou on this nighttime trip though Beirut.

Falafel

2007

The Last Days Of Socrates poster
NR

The play tells the story of Socrates, the father of philosophers and one of the founders of philosophy in history. It also tells the history of Athens, the city of thought, and the story of its resistance to the occupation of the city of Sparta.

The Last Days Of Socrates

1998

Out of Life poster
5.9

Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.

Out of Life

1991

Alzheimer's poster
6.3

Mahmoud Shuaib, a wealthy man diagnosed with Alzheimer's, begins making unusual financial decisions. Fearing for their inheritance, his two sons take legal action to gain control of his estate.

Alzheimer's

2010

Lebanon, the Land of Honey and Incense poster
NR

Doctor Fournier arrives in Beirut as the civil war is raging. He finds himself with a colleague working in a hospital controlled by a Shiite militia and treating the injured. Driven by his doctor’s oath, he crosses the demarcation line to treat Christian casualties of the ongoing clashes. This causes Muslims in his neighborhood to brand him a traitor. He is kidnapped to be exchanged for a fighter captured by Christian militiamen. The film is part of the TV series *Médecins des hommes *(*Doctors of men*). It was considered the best movie in the series.

Lebanon, the Land of Honey and Incense

1988

Nagi El-Ali poster
7.0

After the assassination of the Palestinian artist Naji Al-Ali in London in 1987, the film flashes back to the stops that he went through in his life, starting from his displacement with his family to Lebanon, to his work in Kuwait, to his return to Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war.

Nagi El-Ali

1992

No artwork available
8.0

Filmed in Beirut in the Spring of 1984, in many ways a letter about warfront.

A Letter from a Time of War

1984