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.
Personal Details
Also Known As
Movies (35)
My Name is Mei Shigenobu
Director (Directing)
2018
Imaginary Postcards
Director (Directing)
2016
One Dollar a Day
Director (Directing)
2016
Gender Cafe
Director (Directing)
2013
What's Going On?
Producer (Production)
2009
Dunia
Director (Directing)
2006
The Lady of Saigon
Director (Directing)
1996
Once Upon a Time in Beirut
Director (Directing)
1995
Fertilization in Video
Director (Directing)
1991
Les Almées, danseuses orientales
Director (Directing)
1989
La Tueuse
Director (Directing)
1988
Arab Camera
as Self
1987
The Architect of Louxor
Director (Directing)
1986
As Kineastas
1986
The Ghosts of Alexandria
Director (Directing)
1986
La Croix des Pharaons
Director (Directing)
1986
L’Amour d’Allah
Director (Directing)
1986
The Razor's Edge
Director (Directing)
1985
Beirut, My City
Director (Directing)
1983
The Ship of Exile
Writer (Writing)
1982
Les Libanais, otages de leur ville
Director (Directing)
1982
Iran, Utopia in the Making
Director (Directing)
1980
Making of Nahla
Director (Directing)
1979
Egypt, City of the Dead
Director (Directing)
1978
A Letter from Beirut
Director (Directing)
1978
The Sahara is not for sale
Director (Directing)
1977
Beirut, Never Again
as Narrator (English Voice-Over) (uncredited)
1976
South Lebanon: The Story of a Village Under Siege
Director (Directing)
1976
Children of War
Screenplay (Writing)
1976
For a Few Lives
Director (Directing)
1976
Lebanon in a Whirlwind
as Self
1975
Rejection Front
Director (Directing)
1975
Personal Drawing of a French Mercenary
Director (Directing)
1975
Palestinian Women
Producer (Production)
1974
Les Palestiniens continuent
Director (Directing)
1974