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Beiruth never again is a documentary film directed by Jocelyne Saab in 1976, in Lebanon.



Plot modifier

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.

Technical Sheet modifier

  • Title: Beirut, never again
  • Director: Jocelyne Saab
  • Comment: Etel Adnan
  • Image: Hassan Naamani, Jocelyne Saab
  • Editing: Philippe Gosselet
  • Music: Siegfried Kessler
  • Read for the French version: Jörg Stoecklin
  • Read for the English version: Jocelyne Saab
  • Production: Jocelyne Saab
  • Broadcast Rights: Nessim Ricardou
  • Format: Colors - 1.66: 1- Mono-16/35 mm
  • Genre: documentary film
  • Duration: 37 minutes

Debriefing modifier

"From the moment I decided to stay in Beirut, to testify to everything that happened there, my way of filming has changed. I took my camera and took pictures when I felt the echo of this large garden that disappeared. Even today, all my work is dominated by the search for this garden of childhood, of its idealized memory which inhabited me and still inhabits me entirely.

That's why I particularly like Beirut, never again: I film the walls, the streets, the places that are family to me with love and pain, pain to see that everything I loved is disappearing, but animated by the will and the need to preserve a memory.

With Beirut, never again, I broke the rules of editing, working with my editor Philippe Gosselet as for a four-handed score. I entrusted the text to Etel Adnan, the great Lebanese poetess who wrote the text which is, in my opinion, the most accurate text that has been written about the commitment, for oneself, not for others, and that It is very important to assume it in order never to betray oneself. I claim everything I have done in my life, because I did it freely. "

Interviewed by Mathilde Rouxel.

External Links modifier

Les Amis de Jocelyne Saab [[Category: Movies]] [[Category: Middle East]]