Regarding France and Lebanon

This article takes the autofictional trauma cinema created by Lebanese artists and film-makers Joana Hadjithomas Khalil Joreige in their Je veux voir [‘I want to see’] (2008) as a case study that demonstrates potential value of film-analytical methodology grounded concept cinéma-monde. A Franco-Lebanese co-production starring Catherine Deneuve, occupies hybrid generic position between documentary fiction, may be considered rare example cinematic autofiction. Deneuve’s participation, along with associations conjured up her star-image, allows interrogate nature ongoing relationship France Lebanon (Lebanon being France’s former protectorate). It also for an ethical approach bearing witness war people have suffered recent decades, while avoiding traps falsely totalizing distorting narratives embedded existing audiovisual discourses might, conversely, generate greater transnational audience appeal.