The Lebanese Rocket Society

The flat-footed investigative approach, shuffling between archives, hardly helps.

This rickety doc on the little-known Lebanese space program lacks thrust and direction.

This amazing true story has so much resonance in terms of turbulent Middle East history and the recent reawakening of idealism that it remains a worthwhile watch.

The fact that Lebanon had a space programme is just one of the surprises in Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas' fascinating dispatch from the "who knew?" fringes of docu-making.