Children of War
Synopsis
Not all of war’s cuts and wounds are visible to the naked eye. Following children growing up in a war zone, Jocelyne Saab captures their inner wounds and how they are manifested in their choices of games. The film neither reports nor explains but rather accompanies and observes. The footage that emerges creates a very concrete picture of the inner wounds and their effects that can remain and last for a long time, even across generations.
Schedule
1st Screening
6 November 2024, 19:00 GMT+7
Credits
Jocelyne Saab
Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019) has spent her life telling stories in various forms, ranging from newsreels, photography, films, to video works. She was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, and moved to Paris, France as a student. In Paris in the 1970s, Jocelyne began making films for television. The civil war in Lebanon encouraged her to explore documentaries, with her first work being Palestinian Women (1973). Jocelyne embraced women’s subjective perspectives as the lens to observe the reality of war, the critique of capitalism, and the impact of violence in North Africa and Southwest Asia-regions that in colonialist discourse were called the “Middle East”. She is also interested in exposing Asian films to a wider audience in Lebanon by being a member of the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) and organizing the Cultural Resistance International Film Festival of Lebanon (2013).
