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LEBANESE BURGER MAFIA

By Omar MOUALLEM

Documentary - Post-Production 2023

The meaty saga of a rogue fast food chain with mysterious origins, a cult following, and a secret pathway to the immigrant dream.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 103 mn
- Director(s)
- Omar MOUALLEM
- Writer(s)
- Omar MOUALLEM
- Producer(s)
- Blake MCWILLIAM (Back Road Productions), Dylan RHYS HOWARD (Back Road Productions)
- Synopsis
- The Lebanese Burger Mafia captures
  the trials and tribulations of Arab
  immigrants by telling the story of Burger
  Baron, a rogue fast-food chain likened to
  the mob. To unearth the mysterious
  origins of the chain, writer/director Omar
  Mouallem—himself an heir to a Burger
  Baron throne—travels across rural
  Alberta where the institution persists
  despite the restaurant’s many
  dysfunctions. He discovers how hundreds
  of immigrants like his parents spread
  their trade secrets to uplift their
  communities, while paradoxically fighting one another for ownership of a company none of them created.