HLG Presents: Jocelyne Saab

Join us for a screening of films by Jocelyne Saab at the Sean O'Casey Community Centre. Introduced by Helena Gouveia Monteiro, who will also mediate a post screening Q+A.

Jocelyne Saab (1948 Beirut – 2019 Paris) was a journalist, war reporter, documentary filmmaker, fiction filmmaker, photographer, visual artist, and cultural activist.
In 1973, she became a war reporter in the Middle East, covering the October War for a television channel in France. In 1975, she directed her first feature-length documentary, Lebanon in Turmoil. She then went on to cover the Lebanese Civil War for fifteen years, during which time she directed almost thirty films, including Beirut, Never Again, Letter from Beirut, and Beirut, My City. In 1977 both Egypt, The City of the Dead and The Sahara is Not for Sale were shot and released in cinemas in Paris. In 1981, during the days following the Iranian revolution, she shot Iran, Utopia on the Move, which received several international prizes. In 1998, she went to Vietnam and directed The Lady of Saigon, which was broadcast on France 2 and in many international festivals.

Later in her career, Saab turned to fiction with A Suspended Life in 1985, and Dunia, Kiss Me Not on the Eyes in 2005, and to experimental video and the visual arts.
In 1992, she engaged in the rebuilding of the Lebanese Film Archive. To this end, she catalogued over 250 films that mention Beirut and Lebanon before, during, and after the War. Using the same archives, she also organized the cycle of projections “Beirut, One Thousand and One Images” at the Arab World Institute in 1993, an event that presented all the Arab films selected to be included in the Lebanese Film Archive. In 2013, she founded the International Festival of Cultural Resistance, of which she was also president and artistic director.

The Jocelyne Saab Association was created in 2019 in France and is responsible for preserving, restoring, and promoting her artistic heritage.

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