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Filmmaker · Lebanon

Randa Chahal Sabbag

Died in 2008

Randa Chahal Sabbag was born on 11 December 1953 in Tripoli, in northern Lebanon. She left to study in Paris, at the University of Paris 8 and at the École Louis-Lumière, in the mid-1970s. She began with a documentary, Pas à pas, in 1978, then moved to fiction in 1991 with Écrans de sable, her first fiction feature film. Her film Le Cerf-volant received the Silver Lion at the Venice festival in 2003. She died of cancer on 25 August 2008.

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