Beirut: The Encounter
1981, Arabic. Directed by Borhane Alaouié.
Zeina is a Catholic student whose good friend Haidar, a Muslim, has always been particularly close. After a futile attempt to get together (he gets caught in traffic), they each decide to make an audio tape trying to explain, based on their own ideas, why there continues to be fighting in Lebanon now, in 1977, and why they are against it. Zeina is about to leave for the United States and Haidar is to meet her at the airport, where they will exchange their tapes. Alas, fate intervenes because when he arrives early at the airport, he is harassed by someone looking to prey on gullible refugees and he gets so angry that he grabs a taxi out of there, throwing his tape away as he does so. When Zeina arrives and realizes he is not there, she is broken-hearted.
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Arabic
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- Released
- 2 January 1981
- Original title
- بيروت اللقاء
- Country
- Belgium, Lebanon, Tunisia
- Written by
- Ahmed Beydoun
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Beirut: The Encounter runs 97 minutes (1h 37m).
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Beirut: The Encounter isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 2 January 1981. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed Beirut: The Encounter?
Beirut: The Encounter (1981) was directed by Borhane Alaouié and stars Haithem el Amine, Nadine Acoury, Najoua Haydar.