Letter from Beirut

Letter from Beirut
Jocelyne Saab
Lebanon
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Synopsis

Three years after the beginning of the civil war the filmmaker returns to her city for several months. Living between this war-torn country and a country in peace, she tries to readapt to daily life in Beirut. Public transport in the city no longer exists, but the filmmaker gets an old bus up-and-running, provoking a disconcerting return to normality in this city at war: People climb onto the bus that they see as a place of security.

Director biography

Jocelyne Saab

Jocelyne Saab is a filmmaker and a photographer. She was born in 1948 and grew up in Beirut. In less than thirty years, Jocelyne Saab directed thirty documentaries that were awarded prizes in European and international festivals.

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Sessions

May

Friday 28
19:30 h
CINETECA - Sala Borau

Credits

Language
English, Arabic, French - Subtitles in spanish
Director
Jocelyne Saab
Cinematography
Olivier Guenneau
Editing
Philippe Gosselet
Sound
Mohamed Awad
Production
Jocelyne Saab
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