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Farrah Berrou

@farrahberrou

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Writer + filmmaker + Penny’s manager
I’m all about Lebanon through culture, curiosity, and cats

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I haven’t been doing press about my film because I’m too paranoid of framing and agendas, especially during another round of “do we call this war or not?” But when @themetermaid, my friend, asked if she could write about my part in the Beit Beirut show, I knew she’d do so with care for me and for the outcome. She spoke to a few of the Hkeeli Ya Jnoub women on why telling our own stories matters, please read the full piece on @middleeasteye to see what Sama, Rawan, and I had to say.

The show is on for one more week - and Beit Beirut is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays - so pop in while you can to see/hear/feel our stories about our South 💚 taken in Beit Beirut by @farrahberrou

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3 months ago

And obviously venues must be anti-zio allies. Yalla send me emails!!!

Drop any other Qs in the comments ❤️ by @farrahberrou

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7 months ago

INTRODUCING: BUFFER ZONE. (18min)

In less than 10 days, my short film will premiere to a small audience at the @arabimagefoundation with @asil_anthropologylebanon. After the screening, we’ll have a discussion/Q&A on the film and all the many considerations that came with creating it and then sharing it with the public.

While it took six months to put together, this film took a year to slowly extract. A year to harvest, press, ferment, and distill. I have a feeling that more will come from the same ravaged vineyard. This is only the first vintage.

📌Join on the 16th at 6:30pm to see the full film and follow along on the website [bufferzonefilm.com] for future screenings. by @farrahberrou

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10 months ago

SHURFA شرفة SHORTS : OPENING NIGHT
Thursday 1 October - 7 PM
Het Bos, Antwerp
@het_bos

Shurfa opens in Antwerp with three short films

بذور الكرامة
SEEDS OF DIGNITY
Ali Alsheikh Khedr
LB, IQ, FR / 2025 / 30 min / Documentary / OV AR ST EN

ورشة
WARSHA
Dania Bdeir
LB, FR / 2022 / 15 min / Fiction / OV AR ST EN

منطقة عازلة
BUFFER ZONE
Farrah Berrou
LB / 2025 / 17 min / Documentary / OV AR ST EN

Doors 5 PM · Public dialogue 5:15 PM · Features from 8:15 PM · Closing 11 PM

Tickets and full programme in the link in our bio

🖼️by @ka_elhaddad taken in Het Bos by @farrahberrou

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16 days ago

Microjoys since May 2026 by @farrahberrou

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22 days ago

🎥𝑼𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒏 rassegna di corti libanesi a cura di @formeweb.tv

Quattro cortometraggi, attraverso lo sguardo di quattro registe libanesi, raccontano una terra violata, una quotidianità che sotto occupazione si trasforma in resistenza e le ferite della guerra insieme alla forza della rivoluzione.

Drone story - @laura.menassa
Beirut, novembre 2024. Il peso del silenzio lascia spazio a un ronzio costante nel rumore della città, che cresce fino a diventare insopportabile.

Buffer Zone - @farrahberrou
Il cortometraggio segue Farrah Berrou nel suo ritorno al villaggio di Kfarkila, nel sud del Libano, dopo il cessate il fuoco del 2024, usando riprese personali e archivi per riflettere su memoria, casa e perdita in un contesto di guerra e occupazione.

From my mother’s novel – @fatiimajoumaa
Fatima, la figlia di Layla, dopo aver immortalato alcuni momenti nel Libano meridionale, torna a casa per rifugiarsi tra le pagine del libro di sua madre.

Ship of fools – @aliahaju
Questo documentario animato ricompone frammenti colorati e irregolari della vita personale di Alia, una donna libanese. Cresciuta tra guerra e sfollamento, in cerca di una libertà mai trovata, stringe amicizia con un aspirante supereroe sulla costa di Beirut, chiamato Abu Samra.

Trailer di @liviadilucia

Formeweb sarà presente al festival per introdurre le proiezioni e per esporre i poster realizzati da artist libanesi e palestinesi, a sostegno della raccolta fondi per la Croce Rossa libanese. Potete contribuire acquistando i poster direttamente al festival o facendo una donazione libera tramite il link in bio, specificando la causale “Donazioni Libano”.

🗓️ Venerdì 21 agosto, ore 21.30
📍Largo dei Clareni, Capodarco (FM) taken in Fermo, Italy by @farrahberrou

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2 months ago

There are two more weeks left of Hkeeli Ya Jnoub, the latest exhibition installed within the walls of Beit Beirut. For a brief moment, you can visit our South.

My short film, Buffer Zone, is screening there everyday at your convenience. Ask the floor supervisor on duty to press play so you can watch the full 18 minutes tucked in the corner room.

I’ll be around for a bit on the Night of the Museums (July 16th) but that event will draw a crowd. If you want a private/quiet time to see the film, come by before or after. The program is on until the 26th! taken in Beit Beirut by @farrahberrou

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I will be adding a page on all of this info to my film’s website but, for now, here’s a second installment on #AanabNews recapping the fundraisers that took place in May & June. Link in bio.

Things have slowed as the situation on the ground changes but Lebanon is still *going through it* - donate where you can.

Thank you again to all who made this happen 💚 by @farrahberrou

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UR INVITED⛓️‍💥🤫🫀 @kell__oliver and I have been working on this SWEET, TENDER, HEART-SOPPED offering for months and we’re so excited for you to experience it ~ 4 one night only ~ 7.16 @haymarkethouse — LIMITED TIX IN BIO. 🎞️

Displaying our work publicly — individually and collectively — for the very first time, you are summoned on a 35mm journey through REVERENCE as we’ve documented it. Small moments of awe, magic, and grief as documented over decades across the worlds we’ve walked.

For one night only you are invited to shop our exclusive collections.

100% of $ales will be donated to grassroots efforts in LEBANON supporting families through the devastations and displacement of colonial violence.

DONT LIVE IN CHICAGO AND WANNA SUPPORT??? Buy a ticket anyway and we’ll enter ur into a raffle to win a limited edition print (: 🎞️🎞️🎞️🎞️

🕯️Doors open at 7pm come early for first come first serve access to the print sale — Zelle, Venmo, cash, accepted.

🕯️ Arak tasting bar, Zaatar popcorn + custom olive oil cake available for ur delight

🕯️ at 8pm we’ll gather to watch the premier Chicago screening of Buffer Zone by @farrahberrou (18min). A tender and raw storytelling of the impacts of is*e*li violence on one family and one village.

🕯️Following the film, we will collectively reground and contribute to a collective alter.

Sales end at 9:30pm

Grab ur tix today, capacity will be limited. Link in bio 🩵 by @farrahberrou

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3 months ago

📍 عرض فيلم ونقاش | منطقة عازلة

ماذا يبقى من المكان حين يصبح الوصول إليه مستحيلاً؟

ضمن البرنامج الثقافي المرافق لمعرض "احكيلي يا جنوب"، ندعوكم/ن إلى لقاء مع الفنانة والكاتبة اللبنانية–الأميركية فرح برّو، إحدى المشاركات في المعرض، يتضمّن عرض فيلمها القصير "منطقة عازلة"، يليه نقاش مفتوح معها حول الفيلم، وتجربتها، والأسئلة التي يفتحها عن الذاكرة، والمكان، والانتماء.

يجمع الفيلم بين الوثائقي والسيرة الذاتية، وينطلق من علاقة فرح بقريتها الحدودية كفركلا في جنوب لبنان، التي ما زال الوصول إليها مستحيلاً بفعل الحرب والاحتلال المستمر. ومن خلال مقاطع صوّرتها بهاتفها الشخصي ومواد أرشيفية، يتأمل الفيلم في ما يبقى من البيت، والأرض، والذاكرة، عندما يصبح المكان نفسه مهدّداً بالمحو.

📅 الخميس 2 تموز 2026
🕡 6:30 مساءً
📍 بيت بيروت

أهلاً وسهلاً بكم/ن.

📍 Film Screening & Discussion | Buffer Zone

What remains of a place when it can no longer be reached?

As part of the cultural program accompanying Hkeeli Ya Jnoub, join us for an evening with Lebanese-American writer, filmmaker, and exhibiting artist Farrah Berrou. The event includes a screening of her short film Buffer Zone, followed by an open conversation about the film, her practice, and the questions it raises around memory, place, and belonging.

Part documentary and part memoir, the film emerges from Berrou's relationship to Kfarkila, her ancestral border village in South Lebanon, which remains inaccessible because of the ongoing war and occupation. Through footage captured on her phone and fragments of personal archives, Buffer Zone reflects on what remains of home, land, and memory when a place itself is threatened with erasure.

📅 Thursday, July 2, 2026
🕡 6:30 PM
📍 Beit Beirut taken in Beit Beirut - Museum and Urban Cultural Center by @farrahberrou

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Hkeeli Ya Jnoub, the latest extension of Beit Beirut’s Hkeeli program, brings together the work of artists and archivists from the South. Through various media, we honor our histories in occupied lands that are still being assaulted daily by the Z entity.

It’s a bittersweet thing to be included in this exhibition, to be able to share my film in such strong company. Big thanks to Delphine for bringing me in.

I’m still getting used to calling myself a filmmaker and it has been so weird to now be recognized as such because I made a short film about how the “most moral army in the world” flattened my entire village in 2024. Everything about personal art is messy.

When I walk through this exhibition, I find familiar pieces within these strangers’ lives. A couch with the same fabric pattern as ours. A kitchen with the same pots. A woman from the same village with the same first name who misses the same smell. I ask myself: is it too soon to create a space for the fragility of memory and the permanence of grief, when we are still losing so much? Or must we do so while we can before another calamity eclipses all that came before it?

What do we do with all of this rage?

*Buffer Zone* is screening on the first floor. Pass by during opening hours to watch at your convenience (Wed - Sun, 12-8pm). taken in Beit Beirut - Museum and Urban Cultural Center by @farrahberrou

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4 months ago

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Films from the Frontlines of South Lebanon.

As Israel continues its genocidal assault on Palestine and expands its violence across the region, South Lebanon exists under a shadow of invasion, bombardment and occupation. These attacks do not emerge in isolation. They are part of a broader imperial project sustained by military power, western complicity, and a global war machine that treats Arab lives as expendable and entire landscapes as sites for endless destruction.

At a time when South Lebanon is so often spoken about rather than spoken with, these films offered something urgently necessary: the South on its own terms. Not as a geopolitical talking point, not as a border zone or military theatre, but as home.

A huge thank you to @jaycesalloum, @farrahberrou, @until.sunrise, @baytsaleh whose work all refuse erasure. Your films and music preserve villages, homes and histories in the face of repeated attempts to destroy them. They remind us that art and film is not neutral but it can be witness, act as resistance and itself is a political act.

Thank you to Anthony and @stef.saad for feeding us, thanks to @jimbuluscrimbulus for his help before and after in facilitating the screening, and @mothership.marrickville and @pinkflamingocinema always. And huge thank you to @jules.sarantis for capturing the night again with her beautiful photos.

Also massive thank you to Taylor of @verus.au who designed and made the merch on offer, and made additional donations possible through his generosity.

And thank you to every person who came, sat with these stories and stayed for the conversations afterwards. Gathering together to watch, think, mourn and support collectively feels especially important in a moment where isolation, despair and dehumanisation are so heavily imposed upon us.

We raised $1772 for @nationstation__ from just this screening, with another screening to come this Friday.

Long live the South. See you on Friday for our Beirut series. taken in Mothership Studios by @farrahberrou

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