Who We Are

Cabriolet Film Festival (CFF) was launched in 2009 by the team of Laboratoire d’Art, making it Lebanon’s first outdoor film festival. It all started on the iconic Saint Nicolas Stairs in Gemmayzeh—with three nights of films under the open sky.

Since 2024, Cabriolet has grown beyond Beirut, expanding across multiple Lebanese cities from North to South—bringing the same energy, films, and crowds along the way. The stairs are still home; we just got more neighbors.

At its core, CFF is a space where filmmakers and audiences meet, watch, react, and occasionally argue about films. We showcase short films in all their forms—fiction, documentary, animation, and everything in between—in a non-competitive, open-air setting where everyone’s welcome and no one takes themselves too seriously.

We also care about what films say. Over the years, the festival has leaned into themes around human rights, freedom of expression, equality, and all the things that actually matter—without turning it into a lecture. Each edition comes with its own theme, keeping things fresh, relevant, and sometimes a little unexpected.

Today, Cabriolet is more than just a film festival. It’s a yearly excuse to gather, discover new voices, share ideas, and experience cinema the way it should be—out in the open, with people around you.

And yes, we still make sure the films are good.