Jocelyne Saab
Directing · Director · Writer · Producer
Born Apr 30, 1948 · Beirut, Lebanon
Active 1974–2019 · Awards: Officer of Arts and Letters
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.
Filmography
Rejection Front (1975) — DirectorLebanese, Hostages of Their City (1982) — Director · Director of PhotographyFor a Few Lives (1976) — Director · ProducerSahara Is Not for Sale (1977) — Director · Writer · ProducerPersonal Drawing of a French Mercenary (1975) — DirectorIran, Utopia on the Move (1980) — DirectorOnce Upon a Time in Beirut (1995) — Director · WriterEgypt, City of the Dead (1978) — DirectorBeirut, My City (1983) — Director · Director of PhotographyThe Ship of Exile (1982) — Writer · Director · Director of PhotographyChildren of War (1976) — Screenplay · Producer · DirectorBeirut, Never Again (1976) — Narrator (English Voice-Over) (uncredited) · Director · Director of Photography · ProducerSouth Lebanon: The Story of a Village Under Siege (1976) — DirectorA Letter from Beirut (1978) — DirectorThe Razor's Edge (1985) — Director · Idea · ProducerLebanon in a Whirlwind (1975) — Director · ProducerDunia (2006) — Director · Writer · ProducerPalestinian Women (1974) — Producer · Screenplay · DirectorAs Kineastas (1986)Imaginary Postcards (2016) — Director · Producer · ScreenplayThe Lady of Saigon (1996) — DirectorFertilization in Video (1991) — DirectorMy Name is Mei Shigenobu (2018) — DirectorWhat's Going On? (2009) — Producer · Screenplay · Director