Waves '98 is a 2015 animated, live-action short film written and directed by Lebanese artist and filmmaker Ely Dagher.

[1] Omar is a high-school student living in the northern suburbs of Beirut in the late 1990s.

[2] Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar's discovery lures him into the depths of the city.

Immersed into a world that is so close yet so isolated from his reality that he eventually finds himself struggling to keep his attachments, his sense of home.

[3] The film is a meditation on Dagher's relationship to Beirut, his hometown, since he has left it for Brussels.