Jocelyne Saab

Known for DirectingBorn 1948-04-30Died 2019-01-07Beirut, Lebanon

Jocelyne Saab was a filmmaker and a photographer. She was born in 1948 and grew up in Beirut. In 1973, she became a war reporter in the Middle-East, covering the war of October for Magazine 52, the third television channel in France. In 1975 she directed her first feature film, a documentary released in Parisian cinemas: Lebanon in Turmoil, distributed by Pascale Dauman. She will then cover the Lebanese war for fifteen years, during which she directs almost thirty films, including Beirut, never again, broadcasted on France 2 in 1976, Letter from Beirut and Beirut, my city, broadcasted on France 3 between 1978 and 1982. In 1977 both Egypt, City of the Dead and The Sahara is not up for sale and were shot and released in Parisian cinemas. In 1981, she shots Iran, Utopia in the making on the days following the Iranian revolution, which received several international prizes. In 1998, she went to Vietnam and directed a documentary called The Lady of Saigon, which is awarded best French documentary by the French senate. It’s broadcasted on France 2, and in many international festivals.Read more

Movies & web series

Lebanese, Hostages of Their City

Rejection Front

For a Few Lives

Iran, Utopia on the Move

Sahara Is Not for Sale

Personal Drawing of a French Mercenary

Once Upon a Time in Beirut

Egypt, City of the Dead

The Ship of Exile

South Lebanon: The Story of a Village Under Siege

Beirut, My City

A Letter from Beirut

Beirut, Never Again

The Razor's Edge

Children of War

Arab Camera

Lebanon in a Whirlwind

Dunia

Palestinian Women

My Name is Mei Shigenobu

Imaginary Postcards

One Dollar a Day

Gender Cafe

What's Going On?

The Lady of Saigon

Fertilization in Video

Les Almées, danseuses orientales

La Tueuse

As Kineastas

The Architect of Louxor

The Ghosts of Alexandria

La Croix des Pharaons

L’Amour d’Allah

Making of Nahla

Les Palestiniens continuent