Jocelyne Saab

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

2026

Revolutionaries Never Die

Director of Photography

Movie
2018

My Name is Mei Shigenobu

Director

Movie
2016

Imaginary Postcards

Director

Movie
2016

One Dollar a Day

Director

Movie
2013

Gender Cafe

Director

Movie
2009

What's Going On?

Producer

Movie
2006

Dunia

Director

Movie
1996

The Lady of Saigon

Director

Movie
1995

Once Upon a Time in Beirut

Director

Movie
1991

Fertilization in Video

Director

Movie
1989

Les Almées, danseuses orientales

Director

Movie
1988

La Tueuse

Director

Movie
1987

Arab Camera

Self

Movie
1986

The Architect of Louxor

Director

Movie
1986

The Ghosts of Alexandria

Director

Movie
1986

La Croix des Pharaons

Director

Movie
1986

L’Amour d’Allah

Director

Movie
1986

As Kineastas

Movie
1985

The Razor's Edge

Director

Movie
1983

Beirut, My City

Self

Movie
1982

The Ship of Exile

Writer

Movie
1982

Lebanese, Hostages of Their City

Self - Narrator (voice)

Movie
1981

Circle of Deceit

Assistant Director

Movie
1980

Iran, Utopia on the Move

Director

Movie
1979

Making of Nahla

Self

Movie
1978

A Letter from Beirut

Self

Movie
1978

Egypt, City of the Dead

Director

Movie
1977

Sahara Is Not for Sale

Director

Movie
1976

Children of War

Producer

Movie
1976

Beirut, Never Again

Narrator (English Voice-Over) (uncredited)

Movie
1976

For a Few Lives

Director

Movie
1976

South Lebanon: The Story of a Village Under Siege

Director

Movie
1975

Lebanon in a Whirlwind

Self (uncredited)

Movie
1975

Rejection Front

Director

Movie
1975

Personal Drawing of a French Mercenary

Director

Movie
1974

Palestinian Women

Screenplay

Movie
1974

Les Palestiniens continuent

Director

Movie