10th edition · 17–28 September 2026 · Montréal · Ottawa · Greater Toronto
Lebanon Cinema Days.
A touring festival of Lebanese, Arab and international cinema — carrying the stories of a homeland to Canadian screens, and opening a conversation with the cultures that received them.
Georges Khabbaz
Lifetime Achievement Award · Tenth Canadian edition
Georges Khabbaz has spent his career writing, composing and performing a Lebanon that Lebanese audiences recognise as their own. A generation grew up on his plays and his films.
This year he receives our Lifetime Achievement Award — and he is here for it. He walks the carpet at all three opening nights, in Montréal, Ottawa and Toronto, and stays for the evening.
He is also in three of our films: Ghadi, Yunan, and Mille Secrets Mille Dangers, Philippe Falardeau’s adaptation of Alain Farah’s novel. After Ghadi in Montréal on 18 September, he stays to take questions.
The festival runs on its tickets. Last season that carried it to nine Canadian cities.
Three cities, three opening nights
He walks all three carpets. Pick the one nearest you.
An opening night is the evening a city turns up: the carpet, the photographs, the artists actually in the room, and the first film of the festival on a proper screen. We hold three because Montréal, Ottawa and the Greater Toronto Area are three communities rather than one mailing list — so there is no lesser night to be booked into.
Thirteen feature films and forty-four shorts follow across the twelve days.
Who else is on the carpet
Two more artists and the woman holding the evening together — in all three cities. Tap a portrait for the full story.
Stephanie Atala
Lebanese-French actress, singer and producer. She receives the festival’s new Francophone Artist Grand Prize at the Montréal opening.
Zef
Lebanese singer-songwriter, producer and actor, joining the red carpet as a special guest of the tenth Canadian edition.
Nisrine Zawahira
Hosting all three opening nights — Montréal, Ottawa and the Greater Toronto Area.
Saint Charbel.
The key moments in the life of Saint Charbel — the Lebanese hermit whose name is spoken in every corner of the diaspora. Directed by Nadim Mehanna.
For many Lebanese Canadians, Charbel is not a historical figure. He is the photograph in a grandmother’s hallway, and the name said quietly before a long drive.
We are bringing the film across the country, city by city. The Canadian dates are still being confirmed — leave us your email and we will write to you the moment we have them.
Mille secrets mille dangers.
Philippe Falardeau directed it from Alain Farah’s novel — a Lebanese-Québécois family, a wedding day at Saint-Joseph’s Oratory in Montréal, and everything that surfaces before the vows are said. Georges Khabbaz is in the cast.
A Québec production, a Québec director, and a story that begins in Lebanon. The people who made it are coming to the screening, and this is as much for them as for the film.
Liste de mariage.
Randa Aalam’s comedy. Lana wants only to survive her ex’s wedding, so she talks a stranger into playing her boyfriend for the evening. It does not go to plan.
It is the lightest film in a programme that otherwise spends its time on leaving and staying — and the one most likely to send a room home laughing.
One season, nine cities, one room at a time.
Beirut Film Society is a Canadian non-profit. Last season Lebanon Cinema Days travelled coast to coast — thirty-eight evenings in nine cities, in theatres, community halls and college auditoriums — and brought about 3,500 people together across Canada.
About 3,500 people in total: 2,472 paid admissions across the nine cities, over 500 community guests welcomed on free and family admissions, and over 500 volunteers, ambassadors and city-team members who ran it. Two thirds of every dollar went back into the Canadian cultural economy — to local artists, venues, crews and printers.
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