the postoffice

“Une Ville Suspendue” by Jocelyne Saab, final checks after restoration at the postoffice .

Aujourd'hui, anniversaire de la cinéaste, nous annonçons la première rétrospective partielle des films restaurés de Jocelyne Saab. Les équipes de la Jocelyne Saab Association à Beyrouth et ailleurs (Mounir Al Mahmoud, Manal Zakharia, Adrien Von Nagel, Nadim Kamel, Wassim Tanios, Margaux Chalencon, Maël Simon, Chrystel Elias, Monzer El Hachem) ont pu à ce jour restaurer l'ensemble des films documentaire de Jocelyne Saab réalisés durant la guerre civile libanaise entre 1974 et 1982.
Nous sommes très fiers de pouvoir montrer ces nouvelles versions numériques des films pour la première fois à la Cinémathèque québécoise entre le 18 et le 25 mai prochain.
Soyez au rendez-vous !

Today, on the filmmaker's birthday, we announce the first partial retrospective of Jocelyne Saab's restored films. The teams of the Jocelyne Saab Association, in Beirut and elsewhere, (Mounir Al Mahmoud, Manal Zakharia, Adrien Von Nagel, Nadim Kamel, Wassim Tanios, Margaux Chalencon, Maël Simon, Chrystel Elias, Monzer El Hachem) have been able to restore all of Jocelyne Saab's documentaries made during the Lebanese Civil War between 1974 and 1982.
We are very proud to be able to show these new digital versions of the films for the first time at the Cinémathèque québécoise between May 18 and 25.
Be there !

في يوم عيد ميلاد المخرجة جوسلين صعب ، نعلن عن أول عرض استعادي جزئي للأفلامها المستعادة . تمكنت فرق جمعية جوسلين صعب في بيروت وأماكن أخرى (منير المحمود ، منال زخريا ، أدريان فون ناجل ، نديم كامل ، وسيم طانيوس ، مارجو تشالينكون ، مايل سيمون ، كريستل الياس ، منذر الهاشم) حتى الآن من استعادة مجموعة أفلام وثائقية لجوسلين صعب خلال الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية بين 1974 و 1982.
بين 18 و 25 مايو Cinémathèque Québécoise نحن فخورون جدًا بقدرتنا على عرض هذه الأفلام لأول مرة في .
كونوا في الموعد !

Beirut Hold'em

At The Red Sea International Film Festival

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Red Sea International Film Festival
Michel Kammoun Saleh Bakri Said Serhan Rita E. Hayek Fadi Abi Samra Issam Bou Khaled Ziad Seaibe Talal Jurdi Rana Alamuddin Zeina Saab De Melero Anjo Rihane Nicole Kamato Nabila Zeitouni Roger Assaf Mohamad Akil Yehia Jaber Michel Jabre Rawya El Chab Ali Sammoury Samourai Karim Teen Hasan Ab Hamdan Houssam Sabbah Bachir Maroun Monà Hallab Antoine Khalife Sabine Sidawi Orjouane Productions RoyFilms Sarl Abbout Productions the postoffice Djinn House Studio Mactari Arab Radio and Television Sunnyland Film Fondation Liban Cinema (FLC) Georges Schoucair Ronnie Tarabay Ziad Chartouny Mahmoud Korek Ghada Ouiedat Masoud Amralla Al Ali Souad Houssein Céline Bozon Euric Allaire Pamela Ghanimeh Jinane Dagher Rayan Al Obeidyine Jad Asmar Beatrice Harb Roula Oueida Cynthia Zaven Yara Yuri Safadi Hussein Baydoun Roula Zahar Leia Hasrouty Rami Moukarzel Lucie Mallet Synthia Hobeika Najat Adem Romy Melhem Shirine Sinno Fadi Kassem Hiba Housan Sako Jerejian Jean-Guy Véran Michele Tyan Retail Group Beirut Cinema Platform Watary Music Is My Life Beirut DC AFAC - The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) Doha Film Institute Dubai Film Connection Boghossian Foundation - Lebanon CNC - Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée
Poster by Rami Tannous

Today is the last day of a 3-day Digital Film Restoration Workshop organized by Cinematheque Beirut and the Jocelyne Saab's Friends Association at The postoffice in Beirut. Three participants (professionals in color-grading and post-production) were introduced to the tools and concepts of digital film restoration and received hands-on training on the digital restoration software Diamant HS ART.
The workshop was given by Mounir Al-Mahmoud and Mahmoud Korek from The postoffice on footage from the films of Jocelyne Saab scanned at the Polygone Étoilé in Marseille.

Today is the last day of a 3-day Digital Film Restoration Workshop organized by Cinematheque Beirut and the Jocelyne Saab's Friends Association at The postoffice in Beirut. Three participants (professionals in color-grading and post-production) were introduced to the tools and concepts of digital film restoration and received hands-on training on the digital restoration software Diamant HS ART. The workshop was given by Mounir Al-Mahmoud and Mahmoud Korek from The postoffice on footage from the films of Jocelyne Saab scanned at the Polygone Étoilé in Marseille. This training is in the continuation of a programme on digital film restoration organized by Cinematheque Beirut and the Jocelyne Saab's Friends Association ; supported and supervised by the technical commission of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and the Cinémathèque Suisse with the support of the Roberto Cimetta Fund. The ongoing digital restoration project of 16 films by Jocelyne Saab is led by the Association of the Friends of Jocelyne Saab with the participation of the Polygone Étoilé, the KASK-School of Arts, Cinematheque Beirut and the support of the Gwärtler Stiftung and the Roberto Cimetta Fund. Photo credit: Vicken Avakian #cinemathequebeirut #jocelynesaabassociation #thepostoffice #polygoneetoile #FIAF #cinemathequesuisse

“State of Agitation” by Elie Khalife will be screened at Malmö Arab Film Festival.
Mabrouk Elie

Program 2021 Program 2021

“ State of Agitation” by Elie Khalifeh. Feature film.
We were doing the last touches and the end credits and final renders. Then came the blast, the day we were supposed to finalise. We missed the deadline for Malmö Arab Film Festival where the film was in selection.
This film took the hard way since it was a draft Elie was working on, then shooting on and off for 2 years with available people, friends and equipment, the hard way until the last task.
We did the final output 2 weeks after the blast, the SAN server was damaged but was still functional with a persistent alarm and warning messages.
The film went through.
We made a preview copy, we sent it, we received the first feedback today.

That’s how Lebanese Cinema works, passionate people taking crazy risks.
We wanted to share a good news with all the friends and colleagues.
There is no Cinema without the skilled technicians and artists.
We can do it with less money and less equipment but not without you.
Please don’t give up, please don’t leave.
Good Luck Elie and cheers to “State of Agitation”

We are up and fu***ng running bastards!
But we’ll never be safe until the criminals ruling us are held accountable.

Still standing, the whole team is safe.

Today we finished the last VFX shot of “Beirut Hold’em” by Michel Kammoun.
The final conform is in process, the movie will be ready for release when the World is ready and released