Metrograph

Saab had aspired to attend film school in her youth, but eventually found her way into cinema via journalism. Her first nonfiction feature, begun shortly after the slaughter of some six thousand Palestinians by right-wing Christian Phalangists in April 1975, which would spark a 15-year Civil War, is an inquest into this atrocity, charting the chain of events that had led Lebanon to the point of tragic self-immolation. Preceded by South Lebanon: History of a Besieged Village, in which Saab documents joint Lebanese-Israeli assault on Hanine and Kfarchouba, two “Fatah Land” frontier villages peopled with Palestinians.

Lebanon in Turmoil (Jocelyne Saab, 1975, 75 mins)

South Lebanon, History of a Besieged Village (Jocelyne Saab, 1976, 12 mins)

Distributor: Jocelyne Saab Association