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Jocelyne Saab
Beirut, 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 fo…
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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.
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2026
Revolutionaries Never Die
Movie Director of Photography
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2018
My Name is Mei Shigenobu
Movie Director
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2016
Imaginary Postcards
Movie Director
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2016
One Dollar a Day
Movie Director
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2013
Gender Cafe
Movie Director
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2009
What's Going On?
Movie Screenplay
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2006
Dunia
Movie Director
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1996
The Lady of Saigon
Movie Director
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1995
Once Upon a Time in Beirut
Movie Director
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1991
Fertilization in Video
Movie Director
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1989
Les Almées, danseuses orientales
Movie Director
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1988
La Tueuse
Movie Director
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1987
Arab Camera
Movie Self
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1986
The Architect of Louxor
Movie Director
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1986
As Kineastas
Movie
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1986
L’Amour d’Allah
Movie Director
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1986
The Ghosts of Alexandria
Movie Director
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1986
La Croix des Pharaons
Movie Director
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1985
The Razor's Edge
Movie Director
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1983
Beirut, My City
Movie Self
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1982
The Ship of Exile
Movie Writer
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1982
Lebanese, Hostages of Their City
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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1981
Circle of Deceit
Movie Assistant Director
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1980
Iran, Utopia on the Move
Movie Director
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1979
Making of Nahla
Movie Self
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1978
A Letter from Beirut
Movie Self
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1978
Egypt, City of the Dead
Movie Director
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1977
Sahara Is Not for Sale
Movie Director
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1976
Children of War
Movie Screenplay
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1976
Beirut, Never Again
Movie Narrator (English Voice-Over) (uncredited)
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1976
For a Few Lives
Movie Director
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1976
South Lebanon: The Story of a Village Under Siege
Movie Director
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1975
Lebanon in a Whirlwind
Movie Self (uncredited)
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1975
Rejection Front
Movie Director
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1975
Personal Drawing of a French Mercenary
Movie Director
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1974
Palestinian Women
Movie Screenplay
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1974
Les Palestiniens continuent
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