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A Letter from Beirut, dir. Jocelyne Saab, Lebanon 1978, 52 min.
Jocelyne Saab (1948 – 2019), a pioneering filmmaker, photographer, and artist, was best known for her films mixing journalistic documentation with subjective viewpoints. She made over 40 documentary works in which she shares a unique insight into Lebanese quotidian during war and unprecedented access to the many factions of the time. Since her death, the Friends of Jocelyne Saab have been restoring and archiving Saab’s valuable works.
We are excited to present a selection of these films. In Palestinian Women (1974), Saab allows us to hear often forgotten victims of the conflict. In A Letter from Beirut (1978), among Saab’s more recognised films, she visits Lebanon from exile. We watch her as she negotiates between her familiarity with the city and the new way of life amidst civil war. And finally, we witness a rare interview, in The Ship of Exile (1982), with PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, after coming out of hiding in Beirut and heading to Greece and Tunisia for a new life of exile.
The session will be followed by a Q&A with Mathilde Rouxel, film scholar and Restoration Project Manager.
Programme:
Palestinian Woman, dir. Jocelyne Saab, France 1974, 15 min.
A Letter from Beirut, dir. Jocelyne Saab, Lebanon 1978, 52 min.
The Ship of Exile, dir. Jocelyne Saab, France / Lebanon 1982, 17 min.
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