Jocelyne Saab
Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019) was a Franco-Lebanese filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist born in Beirut. Initially interested in journalism, she joined France 3, which refused to let her speak about Palestinian women in 1974. She then decided to make her films independently. After directing more than a dozen films in Lebanon, she continued to travel around the region to report on the struggles of other peoples. In 1984, she shot her first feature film set in the heart of the Lebanese war, A Suspended Life, which was selected for the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes. She later directed Once Upon a Time (1994), followed by a series of documentaries on Egypt, and The Lady from Saigon (1997) on Vietnam. In the mid-2000s, she turned to contemporary art. Her last fiction film, What's Going On? (2009), was created in the poetic and deconstructed vein she developed after 2005. She continued to produce series of photographs and media installations until 2018.
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Letter from Beirut
Three years after the start of the civil war, the director returns to her city for a few months. Straddling a country at war and one at peace, she finds it hard to readjust to life. By restarting a bus when public transport was no longer available, she was able to bring a new sense of normalcy to the war-torn city: people boarded the bus, seeing it as a safe space.
Letter from Beirut
Three years after the start of the civil war, the director returns to her city for a few months. Straddling a country at war and one at peace, she finds it hard to readjust to life. By restarting a bus when public transport was no longer available, she was able to bring a new sense of normalcy to the war-torn city: people boarded the bus, seeing it as a safe space.
