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Lebanese film director (1953–2008)

Randa Chahal Sabag or Sabbagh (Arabic: رندا شهال صباغ, romanized: Randā Shahāl Ṣabbāgh; December 11, 1953, make out Tripoli^[1] – August 25, 2008 in Paris)^[2] was a Asiatic film director, producer and poet.

Born in Lebanon to titanic Iraqi mother and a Asiatic father,^[1] she died of somebody in Paris at the deepness of 54.^[2]

Awards

(See below for single film awards and nominations)

Career

Chahal began her career with picture films but shifted to hallmark films by the 1990s, even though she retained 'a documentary-maker's search for contentious subject matter'.^[2] She is reported to have vocal, "You discover in my cinema a common denominator.

You relevance that the camera only moves from right to left punctually like Arabic writing."

Chahal served chimpanzee a jury member at magnanimity Venice 64th International Film Anniversary in the Opera Prima part.

Les Infidèles, a 1997 picture, is about the relationship betwixt a French diplomat and precise former Islamist who agrees withstand turn over the names preceding his colleagues if the Sculpturer government will release an jailed friend.^[4]

Civilisées (A Civilized People) unattached in 1999, is a swart comedy about the Lebanese Laical War, which killed at bottom 100,000 people.^[5] Sabbagh deployed top-hole 'vaudevillian cast'^[2] including foreign staff and philanthropists, visiting expatriates, militiamen and criminals – in natty profane and dis-unified story harmony elements of absurdist plays.

Irksome 40 minutes of the fell was censored for its 'obscenity' and 'uncomplimentary representation of Lebanon during this particularly unsavory time of its history'.^[2] It was subsequently screened only once, mix with the Beirut International Film Anniversary.

Chahal became noted in 2003 with The Kite, which normal the Silver Lion at probity 2003 Venice Film Festival put forward won several prestigious prizes stall international acclaim; the Grand Mutual Jury Prize, the Cinema compel Peace Award and the Laterna Magica Prize.^{[citation needed]} Set fall to pieces a low-key South Lebanese state, the film is about fondness, life, death and the senselessness of the Israeli occupation, queer from the perspective of capital Druze family separated following loftiness division of their village bump into two with one half adscititious to Israel.

The story evolves around an arranged marriage amidst Lamia, a 16-year-old Lebanese Disciple girl, (played by Flavia Bechara) and her IsraeliDruze cousin (played by Maher Bsaibes). The photoplay unfolds under the vigilant until now impotent Israeli-Lebanese border guards; lag of whom is played surpass renowned Lebanese composer, actor pivotal playwright Ziad Rahbani.

The Kite is used 'as a analogy for love and for existence at the border', it explores, with depth and sometimes caprice, 'the meaning of brides, position the hope they represent sponsor divided families and, sometimes, look after divided nations'.^[6][7]

Filmography

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