Beirut International Film Festival

overview: over the years, biff has hosted many international and middle eastern names such as abbas kiarostami, isabelle huppert, umbert balsan, yusra, lebleba, francis ford coppola, juliette binoche, julie gayet, marco mueller (venice), tom luddy (telluride)… in spite of the political and security situation in lebanon, biff’s greatest success and pride is the number of guests who fall in love with biff and lebanon and want to come back. all our past guests have become the most efficient pr machine for lebanon and biff. they encourage their friends to come to beirut and every year brings us more and more new friends. biff is equally very proud of bringing art house films to the lebanese audience who would otherwise never have the chance to see these films. in addition, we are happy to mention several parallel achievements of biff: the introduction of abbas kiarostami to iesav for the purpose of holding a workshop. this initiative resulted in two workshops given by mr. kiarostami