The 4th Wall

"The 4th Wall" (2025) is a French-Belgian drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by David Oelhoffen and starring Laurent Lafitte.

In 1982, as Beirut tears itself apart along sectarian lines, an idealistic French theater director named Georges flies in to fulfill a dying friend's request: stage Sophocles' Antigone on the front line, with actors drawn from every warring faction. His guide Marwan navigates him through a city that runs on rules Georges cannot read. Then he meets Imane, and the confusion turns personal.

Oelhoffen sets ancient tragedy inside a very real war, and the result is less a metaphor about art surviving conflict than a film about the cost of believing theater can matter more than a bullet. Stream The 4th Wall online on iFILM.