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Jocelyne Saab
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.
Com a direcció
My Name is Mei Shigenobu
Imaginary Postcards
Un Dollar par Jour
Café du genre
What's Going On?
دنيا
La Dame de Saïgon
كان ياما كان في بيروت
Fécondation in video
Les Almées, danseuses orientales
La Tueuse
L’Architecte de Louxor
Les Fantômes d’Alexandrie
L’Amour d’Allah
La Croix des Pharaons
Ghazl Al-Banat
Beyrouth, Ma Ville
Les Libanais, otages de leur ville
Le Bateau de l'exil
Iran, l’utopie en marche
Sur le tournage de Nahla
Égypte : La Cité des morts
Lettre de Beyrouth
Le Sahara n'est pas à vendre
Histoire d’un village assiégé
Pour quelques vies
Les Enfants de la Guerre
Beyrouth, jamais plus
Le front du refus (ou les commando-suicides)
Les Nouveaux croisés d'Orient (ou Portrait d'un mercenaire français)
