Beirut, My City(1983)

Beirut, My City is a documentary that captures the human cost of the 1982 Israeli siege of Beirut through the eyes of filmmaker Jocelyne Saab. After watching her own home burn, Saab embarks on a poignant investigation into how the city's residents endured the bombardment and displacement. Rather than offering a conventional war narrative, the film transforms Beirut's streets and neighborhoods into vessels of memory, where each location and name carries the weight of personal and collective loss. Saab's intimate approach reveals how ordinary lives were shattered across 150 years of family history in a single moment, creating a moving portrait of resilience amid devastation.