Les enfants de la guerre
Jocelyne Saab,
1976,
10’
A few days after a massacre in a shantytown near Beirut, the director finds the children who survived.
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“In my second film, I felt more confident. I no longer tried to explain things; I wanted to express what I felt like expressing. Children of War is a first attempt. I most certainly put my sensibility as a woman in the foreground. I can’t ignore my sensibility towards children. But that could also be a man’s sensibility! I noticed that the public was touched by these children who lived through a massacre. It’s a film that denounces violence and war. It was a first step.”
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- 1Maryse Léon and Magda Wassef, ““It’s up to women to lift the veil”. Interview with Jocelyne Saab,” translated by Sis Matthé, Sabzian, 7 April 2021. Originally published without title in CinémArabe, 10/11 (August/ November 1978).
