1ANXIOUS IN BEIRUT Title: ANXIOUS IN BEIRUT Director: Zakaria Jaber Year: 2023 Genre: Documentary Running Time: 93 min Country: Spain, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar Format: 16:9 HD COLOR Status: Finished In coproduction with: Jumana Saadeh, Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera Doc Distributed by: Filmotor In the ever-present desire to capture, record, and understand Beirut, and by extension himself, Zakaria has been trying to give a coherent story to his city. It is through the intersectionality between the general & the personal, the public & private, the old & young, that we are able to answer: why are we anxious in Beirut? Credits: Director, script and editor: Zakaria Jaber Executive producers: Jumana Saadeh and Carlota Coloma In coproduction with Jumana Saadeh, Al Jazeera Witness and Al Jazeera Documentary Developed and Pitched at: 2021 MEDIMED – Pitching Forum Festivals: 2023 Shanghai International Film Festival 2023 Maine International Film Festival 2023 Amman International Film Festival 2023 FICPBA 2023 Karama Human Rights Film Festival 2023 Perugia Social Film Festival 2023 Film Festival Diritti Umani Lugano 2023 Mostra de Cinema Àrab i Mediterrani de Catalunya 2023 FFFA 2023 JCC Carthage 2024 GZDOC 2024 Duhok IFF 2024 The Film Tuition International Festival 2024 Big Sky IDFF 2024 Festival AFLAM 2024 Ethnocineca 2024 Biarritz FF 2024 Nation Station FF 2024 Arts of Lebanon Festival 2024 Macao IDFF 2024 Pour la suite du monde 2024 Mizna’s Twin Cities Arab Film Festival 2024 Arlington IFF Awards: 2023 Shanghai International Film Festival – Best Documentary Golden Goblet Award 2023 Amman International Film Festival – Special Mention First-time editor 2023 Perugia Social Film Festival – Perso Agorà (Audience Award) 2023 Film Festival Diritti Umani Lugano – NGO AWARD Amnesty International Switzerland 2023 Mostra de Cinema Àrab i Mediterrani de Catalunya – Best Documentary [15L Films, Thursday 09 January 2025, 14:32:29]

2ANXIOUS IN BEIRUT Producer, co-writer A 93m documentary by Zakaria Jaber, 2023, In coproduction with Al Jazeera Witness, Al Jazeera Documentary & 15L, distributed by: Filmotor. [Jumana Saadeh, Thursday 09 January 2025, 14:36:41]

3Anxious in Beirut (2023) Middle East, Revolution, Society, Youth DESCRIPTION In the ever-present desire to capture, record, and understand Beirut, and by extension himself, Zakaria has been trying to give a coherent story to his city. “Anxious in Beirut” is a personal diary that documents the events of the last two years in Lebanon (revolution, post-war, explosions, demonstrations…). Living with constant anxiety, Zakaria, the film’s young director, narrates his own life, while trying, on numerous occasions, to leave his country. PRESS Anxious in Beirut wins Top Doc in Shanghai, 19.6.2023, Business Doc Europe (https://businessdoceurope.com/anxious-in-beirut-wins-top-doc-in-shanghai/) DIRECTED BY Zakaria Jaber, Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar, Spain, 2023, 93´ & 52´ Broadcasters & distribution Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera Documentary, Al Jazeera Balkan; Catalonia: SODEPAU, Educational: ADAV TERRITORIES Festivals, theatrical, special screenings: Global; TV + VOD: World except of Arabic, English, Turkish and Balkans Festivals Ecrans du Reel Beirut Lebanon, International Premiere - Shanghai Film Festival Documentary Competition, North American premiere - Maine IFF, Amman IFF, Festival Internacional de Cine de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Karama Beirut IFF, MEDIMED, Palestine Cinema Days, HRFF Lugano, PerSo FF, Mostra de Cinema Àrab i Mediterrani 2023, JCC Carthage, Film Franco-Arabe de Noisy-le-Sec, GZDOC, Duhok IFF, The Film Tuition International Festival, Karama HRFF, Big Sky IDFF, AFLAM, Ethnocineca, Biarritz FF, Nation Station FF, Arts of Lebanon Festival (ALF), Macao IDFF, Pour la suite du monde, Mizna's Twin Cities Arab Film Festival, Arlington IFF Awards Golden Goblet prize in the documentary competition of Shanghai Film Festival, Special Mention for First-time Editor in the Arab Feature-Length Documentary Competition at Amman IFF, Per So Perugia - Audience Award, Lugano HRFF - Amnesty International Award, Jury Prize - Mostra de Cinema Arab de Catalunia DIRECTOR BIO Zakaria Jaber (1994) is a film director, editor and writer. He is self-taught with multiple layers of experiences in the fields of journalism, filmmaking and video editing. In 2018 he managed to produce and direct his first short film independently after years of work in TV production and reporting with various prestigious news outlets in the middle east. In 2019, he took a step forward in “Anxious in Beirut” his first feature documentary and spent three years documenting the lives of his friends, family and the events that happened between the revolution in 2019 reaching the total economic and social collapse in 2022. In 2022 he founded his writing company “Outcast Stories”. [Filmotor, Thursday 09 January 2025, 14:46:26]

4Anxious in Beirut | Official Trailer 2023 It is through the intersectionality between the general & the personal, the public & private, the old & young, that we are able to answer: why are we anxious in Beirut? Written, Directed and Edited by Zakaria Jaber Produced by Jumana Saadeh Co-written by Jumana Saadeh, Omar Layza & Yehia Jaber Co-Produced by Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, Al Jazeera English, 15L Films Distributed by Filmotor Zakaria Jaber is an award winning film director and editor from Beirut, Lebanon. [Zakaria Jaber, Thursday 09 January 2025, 14:48:47]