The Beirut Trilogy

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.