Randa Chahal Sabag

Randa Chahal Sabag or Sabbagh (; December 11, 1953, in Tripoli – August 25, 2008 in Paris) was a Lebanese-Iraqi film director, producer and screenwriter.

Biography Born in 1953 in Tripoli, Lebanon, to an Iraqi father and a Lebanese mother, She died of cancer in Paris at the age of 54.

Chahal served as a jury member at the Venice 64th International Film Festival in the Opera Prima section.

Les Infidèles, a 1997 drama, is about the relationship between a French diplomat and a former Islamist who agrees to turn over the names of his colleagues if the French government will release an imprisoned friend.

Civilisées (A Civilized People) released in 1999, is a black comedy about the Lebanese Civil War, which killed at least 100,000 people. Sabbagh deployed a 'vaudevillian cast'

Filmography

Global Lens (Global Film Initiative), New York City, 2008 Prix de la bande Sonore, Bastia, 2004 Prix de TV5, Belgium, 2004 Silver Lion, Grand Prize of the Jury, Venice Film Festival, 2003 Prix de la Lanterne Magique, Venice Film Festival, 2003 Prix de la paix- Gillo Pontecorvo, Venice Film Festival, 2003 Prix international de la musique et du film, Auxerre, 20032000 Souha, survivre à l'enferDocumentary, 56 minutes Selection Fipa, 20011999Civilisées (A Civilized People)Feature, 97 minutes Nestor Almendros Prize, New York City, 2000 Official selection, Venice Film Festival, 19991997Les Infidèles (The Infidels)Drama, 85 minutes Official selection, Locarno, 19971995Nos Guerres ImprudentesDocumentary, 52 minutes Biennale Prize, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 1996 Official selection, Locarno, 1995 Rencontres Internationales, Paris, 19951991Ecrans de Sable (Screens of Sand)Feature, 90 minutes Official selection, Venice Film Festival, 1991 Director's Prize, Valencia Prize, Festival des Pays francophones de Namu Awards National Order of the Cedar (Officer), national decoration, Lebanon, 2003 Nestor Almendros Prize, New York City, 2000