Jocelyne Saab
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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Movies (37)
Revolutionaries Never Die
2026 · Director of Photography
My Name is Mei Shigenobu
2018 · Director
Imaginary Postcards
2016 · Director, Producer, Screenplay
One Dollar a Day
2016 · Director
Gender Cafe
2013 · Director
What's Going On?
2009 · Producer, Screenplay, Director
Dunia
2006 · Director, Writer, Producer
The Lady of Saigon
1996 · Director
Once Upon a Time in Beirut
1995 · Director, Writer
Fertilization in Video
1991 · Director
Les Almées, danseuses orientales
1989 · Director
La Tueuse
1988 · Director
Arab Camera
1987 · Self
The Architect of Louxor
1986 · Director
As Kineastas
1986
The Ghosts of Alexandria
1986 · Director
La Croix des Pharaons
1986 · Director
L’Amour d’Allah
1986 · Director
The Razor's Edge
1985 · Director, Idea, Producer
Beirut, My City
1983 · Self, Director, Director of Photography
The Ship of Exile
1982 · Writer, Director, Director of Photography
Lebanese, Hostages of Their City
1982 · Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Director of Photography
Circle of Deceit
1981 · Assistant Director
Iran, Utopia on the Move
1980 · Director
Making of Nahla
1979 · Self, Director
A Letter from Beirut
1978 · Self, Director
Egypt, City of the Dead
1978 · Director
Sahara Is Not for Sale
1977 · Director, Writer, Producer
Beirut, Never Again
1976 · Narrator (English Voice-Over) (uncredited), Director, Director of Photography, Producer
South Lebanon: The Story of a Village Under Siege
1976 · Director
Children of War
1976 · Screenplay, Producer, Director
For a Few Lives
1976 · Director, Producer
Lebanon in a Whirlwind
1975 · Self (uncredited), Director, Producer
Rejection Front
1975 · Director
Personal Drawing of a French Mercenary
1975 · Director
Palestinian Women
1974 · Producer, Screenplay, Director
Les Palestiniens continuent
1974 · Director
TV shows (0)
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