Palestinian Women
Palestinian women, the often forgotten victims of the Israeli-Palestinian war, are here givern the space to express themselves.
Palestinian women, the often forgotten victims of the Israeli-Palestinian war, are here givern the space to express themselves.
When peace proves impossible, all means are justified to defend a political cause. From this situation emerges, on the border...
A detailed portrait of a young head of state and admirer of Nasser during the first days of the construction...
Portrait of a French mercenary working in Libya, hired by the Phalange to train the militias. War leaves its traces,...
Months after the incident on April 13th 1975, during which Palestinian civilians were gunned down by the Phalangist militia, the...
1976 marks the beginning of Beirut’s calvary. With a child’s eyes the filmmaker follows for six months the daily destruction...
The ceasefire declared on October 21st, 1976 gives the fedayin the opportunity to reclaim what had been Fatah territory until...
Days after the massacre in Karantina, a predominantly Muslim shanty town in Beirut, Jocelyne Saab finds and meets children who...
Portrait of Raymond Eddé, candidate for the Presidential elections and fervent opponent of the war. During the 1975-1976 conflicts he...
This documentary from the heart of the desert shows the conflict between the Algerians and the Moroccans at El-Aiounet, the...
In this portrait of Cairo, “mother of the world”, Jocelyne Saab searches for the city’s origins. While her own city,...
Three years after the beginning of the Civil War the filmmaker returns to her city for several months. Living between...
The Iranian revolution leads to the Shah’s downfall and the installation of the Islamic Republic. Avoiding the more sensational elements...
Jocelyne Saab films the city of Beirut destroyed by Israeli bombing, revealing the extent of the destruction and the suffering...
Reza, a photographer from the SIPA Agency disguises himself as a stretcher-bearer and is able to infiltrate the Palestinian refugee...
In July 1982 the Israeli army laid siege to Beirut. Four years earlier Jocelyne Saab saw her 150-year-old childhood home...
After living clandestinely in Beirut to escape the Israeli forces, the head of the PLO, Yasser Arafat, leaves Lebanon aboard...
Samar is a young girl born into the war. Forced to live as a nomad, she grows up among fighters,...
Humiliated by the 1967 defeat, the Egyptian people look for ways to rebuild their sense of identity. Religion seems to...
A portrait of the Copts, the oldest Christian community in Egypt, their links to ancient Egypt and, in the face...
The architect and philosopher Olivier Sednaoui, disciple of Hassan Fathi, explains how he built his mud-brick house, which brings together...
Alexandria: by turn Hellenistic, Greek, Roman, Copt… and then a petit Paris at the end of the 1930s. Inspired by...
Portrait of a woman, Jocelyne Khoueiry, who in 1976, during the Lebanese Civil War, was the muse of the phalangist...
Curvaceous and always dressed in sequins, the belly dancers – the alma’ – are present at weddings and circumcision parties....
Using laparoscopic instruments equipped with a camera Jocelyne Saab films the IVF process as it takes place. Report on implant...
Celebrating their 20th birthdays, Yasmine and Leila decide to visit a renowned cinephile and collector, M. Farouk, to discover a...
Portrait of Dr Hoa, an extraordinary woman who was a minister in the South Vietnamese revolutionary government. Her life is...
Dunia is a meditation on female desire, a notoriously taboo subject in the Arab world, especially in the Egyptian society...
In Beirut, a writer, son of a tailor, cuts and sews his texts made-to-measure for well-known people from around the...
An imaginary postcard written to the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. Jocelyne Saab writes about her illness, about the fragility of...
A delicate portrait of Mei Shigenobu, daughter of the founder of the Japanese Red Army in Beirut, Fusako Shigenobu.