Belgium-based Palestinian filmmaker Mohanad Yaqubi has made "Revolutionaries Never Die", a documentary paying tribute to the late Lebanese filmmaker and war reporter Jocelyne Saab, focusing on her first decade of work between 1973 and 1983. The film, framed as a cinematic letter to Saab, will premiere in the Filmmakers of the Present competition at the 79th Locarno Film Festival on 9 August, drawing renewed attention to a pioneering Arab woman director whose archive Yaqubi says resonates strikingly with events today.

Yaqubi's connection to Saab is personal as well as professional: his own family's home in Gaza was bombed in April 2024, echoing a scene in Saab's 1982 film "Beirut My City" in which she stands before her bombed-out house. He had also received an invitation from Saab to collaborate two months before her death, which he never answered. Locarno's artistic director, Giona A. Nazzaro, praised the film as an homage to Saab's legacy and her documentation of events such as the onset of the Iranian revolution, describing her as "a living memory" whose work and life the film treats as a "living archive". Idioms Film produced the picture, with Square Eyes handling international sales.