Curator of
Cinematography: Jocelyn Saab
Mathilde Rouxel is a film historian and independent curator specializing in Arab cinema. She earned her PhD at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University with a thesis on Arab women's cinema since 1967. In 2015, she published "Jocelyne Saab, la mémoire indomptée," the first monograph on the French-Lebanese filmmaker and photographer, followed by "ReFocus: The Films of Jocelyne Saab" (2022) and "Le Livre pour sortir au jour de Jocelyne Saab" (2023). She co-founded and directs the Association Jocelyne Saab, dedicated to preserving and disseminating Saab's work, and is General Delegate of the Cultural Resistance International Film Festival of Lebanon (CRIFFL). With the series "Kinematografie: Jocelyn Saab", she curates a retrospective at this year's Viennale honoring the filmmaking pioneer, who passed away in 2019.