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BFC Live Sound Engineering Workshop 2026

In just 4 days, gain hands-on experience in live audio, mixing, and effects. Learn the basics, then apply them in a real band session with industry pros. Perfect for beginners, musicians, and aspiring sound engineers.

BFC Filmmaking Bootcamp Summer 2026

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BFC Color Garding Workshop 2026

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Basics of Video Journalism

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Previous Workshops

BFC Live Sound Engineering Workshop 2025
In just 4 days, gain hands-on experience in live audio, mixing, and effects. Learn the basics, then apply them in a real band session with industry pros. Perfect for beginners, musicians, and aspiring sound engineers.
BFC Color Grading Workshop 2025
Join us for a comprehensive exploration of the world of color in filmmaking. In this workshop, we will delve into the fundamentals of Video Data, the art and science of color grading, and the cultural meanings behind color choices in film.
BFC Hunna Center Script Writing Workshop 2024
Scriptwriting for Social Impact Workshop led by filmmaker Samer Beyhum offers an immersive storytelling experience for aspiring writers and filmmakers. Held in collaboration with Hunna Arts & Culture Center, the workshop focuses on developing short scripts that addr…
BFC OnoHub Live Sound Engineering Workshop 2024
Ready to bring your sound engineering skills to life? Enroll in our Live Sound Engineering Course at Onomatopoeia Music Hub! Over 10 immersive sessions, you’ll master the fundamentals of audio, mixers, compression, effects, and much more. Then, put your knowledge to the…
BFC Painting With Light 2024
Embark on a transformative two-week journey into the enchanting world of visual storytelling, where the seamless fusion of Art Direction, Cinematography, and Color Grading awaits.
BFC Script to Screen Lab 2024
Hey fellow storytellers! Are you ready to embark on a creative journey like no other? Join us for an immersive one-month workshop designed to ignite your passion for collaborative scriptwriting and directing.
Beirut Film Center Summer 2024 Workshops!
Beirut Film Center Summer Workshops 2024 offer hands-on filmmaking training for beginners to advanced creatives. Programs include a Basic Filmmaking Bootcamp, Script to Screen Lab, and Painting with Light, focusing on production, storytelling, cinematography, and color …
Production Master Class Series
Beirut Film Center’s hands-on masterclass series offers filmmakers real feature film experience through Iyaan, a project led by Swiss director Ayten Mutlu Saray. Participants work alongside professionals across pre-production, production, and post-production, gaining …

PROJECTS

Manam Music Video for Yal Solan

Manam is a 2025 single by Lebanese multidisciplinary artist Yal Solan, blending trip hop and meditative rhythms to explore stillness as quiet resistance within the Lebanese context. The official music video, developed through the Beirut Film Center Summer 2025 Filmmaking […]

Men of The Blood

In collaboration with the Alternative Kitchen and Solo Films, we are working on the development of a documentary that has the ethics of veganism at its heart.

The Alternative Kitchen

The Alternative Kitchen is a bilingual vegan resource hub that promotes affordable, accessible, and compassionate living. Through recipes, videos, podcasts, and cultural insights, it reintroduces traditional Levantine cuisine while making plant-based living easy and inclusive for all.

Dissonant Union Experiment

A multidisciplinary platform blending live improvisational music, visuals, poetry, and activism. Through immersive performances, they highlight social and environmental issues, incorporating short films, interview sound bites, and video art.

Maram: Between Shadow & Light

A short documentary revealing the harsh reality of Maram, a Syrian refugee girl who once sold flowers on the streets of Hamra.

Articles

Fragments of a silent rebellion part 6: Everything is Connected

24 Jun, 2025

Samer Beyhum

Storytelling is my metaphysical act of weaving broken memories into living threads. From Beirut rooftops to vegan kitchens, I trace unseen connections between animals, refugees, machines—and us. My films, ethics, and activism are one practice: refusing hierarchies, choosing compassion, and […]

Fragments of a silent rebellion part 5: Teaching from the Margins

20 Jun, 2025

Samer Beyhum

Teaching was never a career plan—it was a calling. After navigating life on the margins, I couldn’t ignore the others still stuck there. I teach not to fix, but to reflect, to walk beside my students as they discover their […]

Fragments of a silent rebellion part 4: Stories as Resistance

28 May, 2025

Samer Beyhum

Filmmaking is not just a craft but a language of survival, resistance, and healing, an urgent, intimate act of witnessing that transforms silence into meaning and invisibility into presence.

Fragments of a Silent Rebellion Part 3: The Quiet Rise

10 May, 2025

Samer Beyhum

I was never the rebel shouting from rooftops. Mine was a quieter defiance—one that refused to be erased. Written off early, I wasn’t failing—I was just learning in ways no one could measure. While others memorized answers, I chased the […]

Fragments of a Silent Rebellion Part 2: The Diagnosis That Named Me

21 Apr, 2025

Samer Beyhum

I wasn’t diagnosed with dyslexia until I was sixteen. By then, the damage had already been done not just by the condition itself, but by the silence surrounding it. In post-war Lebanon, things like learning differences weren’t discussed… they were […]

Fragments of a Silent Rebellion Part 1: The War That Raised Me

12 Apr, 2025

Samer Beyhum

I was born in 1977, two years after the Lebanese “Civil” War erupted and thirteen years before it officially “ended.” But for me, it never really did. It just changed form. The warlords who tore the country apart became our […]

More Than Just a Crash Course in Cinema

7 Apr, 2025

Samer Beyhum

For two weeks in the summer of 2024, the Beirut Film Center came alive with the energy, curiosity, and creative spark of young aspiring filmmakers. The Basic Filmmaking Bootcamp welcomed participants aged 16 to 25

Harmonizing Creativity: A Tale of Transformation from Strangers to Collaborators at the Beirut Film Center

23 Aug, 2023

Samer Beyhum

In the heart of Beirut, a profound transformation story unfolded—a journey that melded creativity, teamwork, and the unbridled spirit of filmmaking. Over a mere span of two weeks, 14 individuals, spanning ages from 16 to 40, embarked on an odyssey […]

Embracing Multidisciplinary: A Joyful Journey of a Dyslexic Filmmaker

2 Aug, 2023

Samer Beyhum

Welcome to the colorful world of a dyslexic filmmaker, where joy and passion fuel a multidimensional journey. In a world that often emphasizes specialization, I’ve found that embracing diverse interests has been a source of inspiration and personal growth. Join […]

Empowering Voices through Filmmaking: Challenging Societal Norms in Lebanon and Beyond

1 Aug, 2023

Samer Beyhum

Filmmaking is an extraordinary art form that transcends borders, providing young minds with a medium to express their unique perspectives on the world. By understanding the cinematic language of storytelling, young people can challenge societal norms that have long perpetuated […]