Known For
Directing
Born
Apr 30, 1948
Died
Jan 07, 2019
Place of Birth
Beirut, Lebanon
Credits
37 titles
Jocelyne Saab
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Revolutionaries Never Die
Director of Photography
My Name is Mei Shigenobu
Director
Imaginary Postcards
Director
One Dollar a Day
Director
Gender Cafe
Director
What's Going On?
Producer
Dunia
Director
The Lady of Saigon
Director
Once Upon a Time in Beirut
Director
Fertilization in Video
Director
Les Almées, danseuses orientales
Director
La Tueuse
Director
Arab Camera
Self
The Architect of Louxor
Director
The Ghosts of Alexandria
Director
La Croix des Pharaons
Director
L’Amour d’Allah
Director
As Kineastas
The Razor's Edge
Director
Beirut, My City
Self
The Ship of Exile
Writer
Lebanese, Hostages of Their City
Self - Narrator (voice)
Circle of Deceit
Assistant Director
Iran, Utopia on the Move
Director
Making of Nahla
Self
A Letter from Beirut
Self
Egypt, City of the Dead
Director
Sahara Is Not for Sale
Director
Children of War
Producer
Beirut, Never Again
Narrator (English Voice-Over) (uncredited)
For a Few Lives
Director
South Lebanon: The Story of a Village Under Siege
Director
Lebanon in a Whirlwind
Self (uncredited)
Rejection Front
Director
Personal Drawing of a French Mercenary
Director
Palestinian Women
Screenplay
Les Palestiniens continuent
Director