Jocelyne Saab
Jocelyne Saab is 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.
South Lebanon: The Story of a Village Under Siege
(Director)
Imaginary Postcards
(Director)
The Lady of Saigon
(Director)
Dunia
(Director)
Dunia
(Writer)
Fécondation in video
(Director)
Palestinian Women
(Producer)
War Children
(Screenplay)
Palestinian Women
(Screenplay)
War Children
(Producer)
Imaginary Postcards
(Producer)
Imaginary Postcards
(Screenplay)
Le front du refus (ou les commando-suicides)
(Director)
Les Libanais, otages de leur ville
(Director)
My Name is Mei Shigenobu
(Director)
What's Going On?
(Producer)
What's Going On?
(Screenplay)
Once Upon a Time in Beirut
(Director)
The Razor's Edge
(Director)
For a Few Lives
(Director)
For a Few Lives
(Producer)
One Dollar a Day
(Director)
The Ship of Exile
(Writer)
The Ship of Exile
(Cinematography)
The Architect of Louxor
(Director)
The Ghosts of Alexandria
(Director)
La Tueuse
(Director)
La Croix des Pharaons
(Director)
L’Amour d’Allah
(Director)
Beirut, My City
(Director)
War Children
(Director)
Dunia
(Producer)
Le Sahara n'est pas à vendre
(Director)
Egypt, City of the Dead
(Director)
Beirut, Never Again
(Director)
Les Almées, danseuses orientales
(Director)
What's Going On?
(Director)
The Razor's Edge
(Idea)
Les Palestiniens continuent
(Director)
A Letter from Beirut
(Director)
Once Upon a Time in Beirut
(Writer)
Iran, Utopia in the Making
(Director)
The Razor's Edge
(Producer)
Personal Drawing of a French Mercenary
(Director)
Palestinian Women
(Director)
The Ship of Exile
(Director)
Making of Nahla
(Director)
Lebanon in a Whirlwind
(Director)
Beirut, Never Again
(Director of Photography)
Beirut, Never Again
(Producer)
Gender Cafe
(Director)