Director
Jocelyne Saab
Edition 2021
52'
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1982
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Dialogue:
Arabic, French
Beirut, My City finds Saab and her collaborator, the playwright and director Roger Assaf, returning to the shell of her former home following Israel’s 1982 invasion, finding
small glimmers of hope in the chaos of refugee camps and
the rubble of decimated neighborhoods.
Beirut, My City finds Saab and her collaborator, the playwright and director Roger Assaf, returning to the shell of her former home following Israel’s 1982 invasion, finding small glimmers of hope in the chaos of refugee camps and the rubble of decimated neighborhoods.
Print courtesy of Cinémathèque Française
“I consider this to be my most important film, the one that is the closest to my heart. In 1982, my house was burning.
That’s not nothing. It was a very old house. 150 years of
history went up in flames and disappeared. All of that is
suddenly destroyed. The family home, wiped off the map,
gone from the city, having become a pile of ruins.”
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Directors
Jocelyne Saab
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Dialogue
Arabic, French
Countries of production
Lebanon, France
Year
1982
