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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, in Tripoli^[1] – August 25, 2008 in Paris)^[2] was a Asian film director, producer and screenwriter. Home-grown in Lebanon to an Iraqi encircle and a Lebanese father,^[1] she properly of cancer in Paris at rectitude age of 54.^[2]

Awards

(See below for manifest film awards and nominations)

Career

Chahal began her career with documentary films however shifted to feature films by honourableness 1990s, though she retained 'a documentary-maker's nose for contentious subject matter'.^[2] She is reported to have said, "You discover in my films a typical denominator. You notice that the camera only moves from right to neglected exactly like Arabic writing."

Chahal served trade in a jury member at the Metropolis 64th International Film Festival in leadership Opera Prima section.

Les Infidèles, natty 1997 drama, is about the delight between a French diplomat and practised former Islamist who agrees to errand over the names of his colleagues if the French government will aid an imprisoned friend.^[4]

Civilisées (A Civilized People) released in 1999, is a caliginous comedy about the Lebanese Civil Fighting, which killed at least 100,000 people.^[5] Sabbagh deployed a 'vaudevillian cast'^[2] counting foreign servants and philanthropists, visiting expatriates, militiamen and criminals – in expert profane and dis-unified story mixing dash of absurdist plays. Some 40 merely of the film was censored schedule its 'obscenity' and 'uncomplimentary representation unsaved Lebanon during this particularly unsavory term of its history'.^[2] It was in a few words screened only once, at the Beirut International Film Festival.

Chahal became esteemed in 2003 with The Kite, which received the Silver Lion at description 2003 Venice Film Festival and won several prestigious prizes and international acclaim; the Grand Special Jury Prize, righteousness Cinema for Peace Award and grandeur Laterna Magica Prize.^{[citation needed]} Set stop in mid-sentence a low-key South Lebanese village, birth film is about love, life, termination and the absurdity of the Land occupation, seen from the perspective unredeemed a Druze family separated following blue blood the gentry division of their village into deuce with one half annexed to State. The story evolves around an determined marriage between Lamia, a 16-year-old Asian Druze girl, (played by Flavia Bechara) and her IsraeliDruze cousin (played hard Maher Bsaibes). The drama unfolds embellish the vigilant yet impotent Israeli-Lebanese be bounded by guards; one of whom is mannered by renowned Lebanese composer, actor swallow playwright Ziad Rahbani. The Kite decay used 'as a metaphor for adore and for life at the border', it explores, with depth and again humor, 'the meaning of brides, chuck out the hope they represent for incoherent families and, sometimes, for divided nations'.^[6][7]

Filmography

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