Jocelyne Saab, Filmmaker ( Les Femmes palestiniennes / Le front du refus / Le Liban dans la tourmente / Les Nouveaux croisés d'Orient / Les Enfants de la Guerre / Beyrouth, jamais plus / Histoire d?un village assiégé / Pour quelques vies / Le Sahara n'est pas à vendre / Égypte : La ) ( Palestinian Women / Rejection Front / Lebanon in a Whirlwind / Personal Drawing of a French Mercenary / Children of War / Beirut, Never Again / South Lebanon: The Story of a Village Under Siege / For a Few Lives / Sahara Is Not for Sale / Egypt, City of t )

Jocelyne Saab, Filmmaker (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Les Femmes palestiniennes / Le front du refus / Le Liban dans la tourmente / Les Nouveaux croisés d'Orient / Les Enfants de la Guerre / Beyrouth, jamais plus / Histoire d?un village assiégé / Pour quelques vies / Le Sahara n'est pas à vendre / Égypte : La
Alternate Title: Palestinian Women / Rejection Front / Lebanon in a Whirlwind / Personal Drawing of a French Mercenary / Children of War / Beirut, Never Again / South Lebanon: The Story of a Village Under Siege / For a Few Lives / Sahara Is Not for Sale / Egypt, City of t
Language Selections:
Arabic ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Arabic ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
496 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1974-1982 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Israel ( Africa, Middle East )
Lebanon ( Africa, Middle East )

Directed By:
Jocelyne Saab
Jörg Stocklin
Rafic Boustani

Written By:
Jocelyne Saab
Etel Adnan
Roger Assaf

Actors:
Jocelyne Saab ..... Self (uncredited)
Etel Adnan ..... Self
Jocelyne Saab ..... Narrator (English Voice-Over) (uncredited)
Jörg Stocklin ..... Narrator (French Voice-Over) (uncredited)
Raymond Eddé ..... Self
Jocelyne Saab ..... Self
Yasser Arafat ..... Self - Chef de l'OLP
Ruhollah Khomeini ..... Self
Massoud Rajavi ..... Self
Sadegh Khalkhali ..... Self
Ezaddin Husseini ..... Self
Selim Turquie ..... Self
Bijane Hikmat ..... Self
Jocelyne Saab ..... Self - Narrator (voice)
Yasser Arafat ..... Self

Synopsis:

Palestinian Women: Palestinian women, the often-forgotten victims of the Israeli-Palestinian war, are here given a voice by Jocelyne Saab. The film was commissioned by Antenne 2 (France), but it was censured while still in the editing stage and never shown. This print was specially made for this retrospective by the conservation centre at Cinemateca Portuguesa. Rejection Front: When peace seems impossible, any means are justified to defend a political cause. Hence, on the border separating the Palestinian territories that refuse to recognize the State of Israel, the idea of suicide commandos emerges. Jocelyne Saab films teenagers, aged twelve to twenty, who tirelessly train in a secret underground base to become suicide commandos. Lebanon in a Whirlwind: A few months after the incident of April 13, 1975, during which Palestinian civilians were machine-gunned by Phalangist militiamen, the toll is most tragic: six thousand dead, twenty thousand wounded, incessant kidnappings, a semi-destroyed capital. This film traces the origins of the Lebanese conflict, the perception of a society that goes to war while singing. A unique document on the Lebanese civil war. Beyond the religious war, the painting of a social and political reality that has not changed much, more than four decades later. Personal Drawing of a French Mercenary: Portrait of a French mercenary working in Libya, hired by the Phalange to train the militias. War leaves its traces; and for some, who see death as part of the job, it's a vocation. Children of War: A few days after a massacre in a shantytown near Beirut, the director finds the children who survived. She approaches them by offering them crayons to draw. A link is created between them. They let her film their violent games: they repeat the scenes of horror they saw unfold before their eyes ... Beirut, Never Again: 1976 marks the beginning of Beirut's calvary. With a child's eyes the filmmaker follows for six months the daily destruction of the city's walls. Every morning, between 6 and 10am she roams around Beirut while the militia from both sides rest from their night of fighting. South Lebanon: The Story of a Village Under Siege: The cease-fire declared on October 21, 1976, gave the Fedayeen the opportunity to reclaim this area-Fatah territory until it was abandoned in 1970-from the right wing militia. But Syrians and Israelis joined together to neutralise this Palestinian "autonomous force" and imposed a siege on two Lebanese frontier villages, Hanine and Kfarchouba, before attacking them. For a Few Lives: Portrait of Raymond EddÃ©, candidate for the Presidential elections and fervent opponent of the religious war. During the 1975-1976 conflicts he and his team had actively searched for people killed in the war, whether they were Christian, Druze or Muslim. Sahara Is Not for Sale: This film from the heart of the desert shows the conflict between the Algerians and the MoroccaEgypt, City of the Dead: A portrait of the City of the Dead, an inhabited cemetery just outside of Cairo and on the fringes of the city's public dumping ground, like a living reproach and a bad conscience. Starting from the City of the Dead, the film shows the populous neighborhoods of Cairo in the grip of hypertrophy and misery, every day more threatened by paralysis. ns at El Aioun, and the Saharan resistance of the Polisario Front. A never ending story which is still one of the reasons for the conflict between Algeria and Morocco. A Letter from Beirut: Letter from Beirut documents the filmmaker's return to Beirut during one of the lulls, three years after the outbreak of the civil war, animated by the urge to return. She is confronted by the physical, emotional and psychological ravages of the war, terrified and sorrowful, she cannot find her place in the city. In that quest, she communicates with everyday people, friends, neighbors, people riding the bus across the city's eastern and western flanks. To pace her journeying and dramatic unraveling of the film, Saab borrows the guise of a letter read in a voice-over, written by world-renowned poet Etel Adnan. A rare document from the civil war, Letter from Beirut lays bare and spontaneously how people make sense of their everyday in the midst of chaos, violence, terror and sorrow. Iran, Utopia in the Making: The Iranian revolution leads to the Shah's downfall and installation of the Islamic Republic. Avoiding the more sensational elements of the news this film questions Iranian society as a whole to try to understand what this wave of change means for the Muslim world. Beirut, My City: In July 1982, the Israeli army besieged Beirut. Four days earlier, Jocelyne Saab sees her house burn and 150 years of family existence go up in smoke. She then takes refuge in questioning: when did this all begin? How did the Beirut people live the siege? Each place will then become a story and each name a memory. Lebanese, Hostages of Their City: Jocelyne Saab toured the city of Beirut devastated by Israeli bombings. She assesses the number of victims and the extent of the destruction. The Ship of Exile: After living clandestinely in Beirut to escape the Israeli forces, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat, left Lebanon aboard the Atlantis for a new exile in Greece and then Tunis. He talks about his destiny and the future of the PLO. Saab was the only journalist with a camera admitted on the boat.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 19 May, 2026.