MAN FROM BEIRUT is a stylized crossover on the border of genre and arthouse. In the world of a Neo-Noir Berlin, we raise questions about cultural, national and moral identity. In the centre of the story, there is the blind contract killer Momo (Kida Ramadan). When he denies death to a young girl, he derives moral guilt, and things take a terrible turn. In harsh back&white MAN FROM BEIRUT dives under the genre surface and reduces the mechanics of gangster film to its symbolic nature. Tough guys, sneaky intrigues, a classic double-cross - but barking dogs don't bite... or do they? MAN FROM BEIRUT takes up the cudgels for straight storytelling in the notion of film noir. At the
same time, it deconstructs classic archetypes like the killer or the godfather. Told in a controversial perspective on migration and crime it reflects current debates in hard-boiled Berlin