The Beirut Trilogy

Name: The Beirut Trilogy — Dir. Jocelyne Saab
Start: 2026-11-13T17:30:00+00:00
Location: Vue in the Light

Dir. Jocelyne Saab

Fri 13 Nov - 17:30

Vue in the Light, Leeds

Screen 11

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Fri 13 Nov

17:30

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Presented together in their recent restorations, Jocelyne Saab’s landmark Beirut Trilogy forms a powerful, deeply personal record of a city transformed by war.

Made between 1976 and 1982, these remarkable essay films follow Saab through the streets of her changing hometown, capturing displacement and everyday life amid destruction. Combining documentary images with poetic, sometimes epistolary narration, they form an intimate portrait of a disappearing city and of the people who persist.

“Documents her battered country’s terrible wounds… and also its poetry and astounding, inexhaustible energy.” — Mathieu Macheret, Sight and Sound

Content Guidance

Contains images of war, violence and destruction, and themes of death and displacement.

Director Jocelyne Saab
Running time 124 mins
Production year 1976, 1978, 1982
Country France
Language French
UK distributor No current UK distributor
Sales Agent Association Jocelyne Saab

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