Lebanese authorities banned US horror film "Annabelle: Creation" from cinemas after some Christian clerics expressed opposition to some of the scenes.

Film director Ziad Doueiri was held and questioned by security officers at the Beirut airport, then appeared in court for shooting a 2013 film in Israel.

Lebanese TV station MTV stopped broadcasting a film about Jesus' life, which was set to air Easter weekend, due to online protests and insults from viewers.

‘Wonder Woman’ was banned in Lebanon & Qatar, pulled from a festival in Algeria & suspended in Tunisia due to lead actress Gal Gadot's Israeli nationality.

Two movies – ‘Beit Al-Baher’ and ‘Mawlana’ – were not granted screening permissions during the Beirut Cinema Days film festival.

Singers Myriam Klink and Jad Khalife were interrogated for over six hours at a Beirut police station over a video authorities banned for being “indecent”.

Egyptian film ‘Mawlana’ (Preacher) banned in Kuwait, UAE & Lebanon over backlash from religious clerics amid fears it could “incite sectarian strife”.

Lebanese-French filmmaker Philippe Aractingi had to censor one scene in his film 'Ismaii' (Listen) by covering a Druze cleric with a black mark.

The Hexaplex psychedelic music festival held from 1-4 September 2016 at a camping site in Chahtoul, Lebanon, 35 kilometres north of capital Beirut, has been receiving backlash from the local Christian community, politicians and general public who claim festivalgoers participated in acts contrary to their religious, cultural and social norms …

In its 16th year, the Beirut International Festival announced on 5 October 2016 that three films would no longer be part of the schedule due to Lebanese authorities not granting screening permits; however later in the week one movie, ‘The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood’ directed by Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, acquired …