Bennesbeh Labokra Chou (2016)

This multi-layered social drama revolves around, Zakaria (Ziad Rahbani), a married man, who works as a bartender in Sandy Snack in Hamra, a region in what was known in the late 70s as West Beirut. This sectarian division is a byproduct of the savage civil war taking place outside the doors of this bar and highlighted by the events going on within its walls.

The war has forced Zakaria to bring his wife Thorayya in to work as a bartender officially and as a prostitute unofficially. Her clients are the bar's often foreign clientele. All through the play/movie, Zakaria alternates between the jealous cuckold who wants his wife to quit and the miserable father who wants to give his children the best life and is petrified of returning to poverty.

Around Zakaria unfold the daily lives of the Lebanese during the war, and perhaps more significantly, after it: Zakaria's cousin Ramiz lives in the village and delivers vegetables to the bar that multiply in price once they enter the kitchen, Najeeb is a hot-headed cook who refuses to back down from a fight, and Sheikh Da'fous is one of many rich people from the Gulf region who benefited from the Lebanese civil war. In the end, Zakaria is given the option of working in the Gulf where he would earn a decent salary; he nevertheless refuses the offer claiming that he cannot live in the Gulf and leave his country (and Thorayya). What will the future hold in store for him?