{"id":2509,"date":"2026-07-09T18:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:48:24","slug":"square-eyes-boards-mohanad-yaqubis-revolutionaries-never-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=2509","title":{"rendered":"Square Eyes Boards Mohanad Yaqubi&#8217;s \u2018Revolutionaries Never Die\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Vienna-based sales agency Square Eyes has acquired world sales rights to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/revolutionaries-never-die\/\" id=\"auto-tag_revolutionaries-never-die\" data-tag=\"revolutionaries-never-die\">Revolutionaries Never Die<\/a><\/em>, the latest feature from Palestinian filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mohanad-yaqubi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mohanad-yaqubi\" data-tag=\"mohanad-yaqubi\">Mohanad Yaqubi<\/a>, set to debut in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente competition at this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/locarno\/\" id=\"auto-tag_locarno\" data-tag=\"locarno\">Locarno<\/a> Film Festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film\u2019s synopsis reads: \u201cIn 2018, veteran Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab reached out to filmmaker and archivist Mohanad Yaqubi with an invitation to collaborate. She died two months later, having never received an answer. A lyrical expedition through the life, political commitments, and artistic vision of Jocelyne Saab, a singular voice in a revolutionary time, this film is Yaqubi\u2019s answer: a cinematic collaboration that seeks to imagine what their conversation might have been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBorn and raised in Beirut, Saab was a beloved filmmaker and war reporter. In 1975, she directed her first feature film, a documentary,\u00a0<em>Lebanon in Turmoil<\/em>, a portrait of the Lebanese Civil War. Saab then spent fifteen years covering the Lebanese war, during which she made almost 30 films, including\u00a0<em>Beirut, Never Again<\/em>. She made her fiction debut in 1985 with\u00a0<em>The Razor\u2019s Edge,\u00a0<\/em>which screened at Directors\u2019 Fortnight in Cannes. She died in 2019 in Paris after a long illness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<em>Revolutionaries Never Die<\/em> is Yaqubi\u2019s third archive-based feature, following <em>Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory<\/em> (2016), which premiered at TIFF and screened at the Berlinale and Cin\u00e9ma du r\u00e9el, and <em>R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity<\/em> (2022), which screened at IDFA. <em>Revolutionaries Never Die <\/em>was awarded the top prize for best project in post-production at the 2025 Cairo Film Connection and was presented at picture lock at the Doha Film Institute\u2019s Qumra 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tYaqubi produced the film alongside Mathilde Rouxel. The film was edited by Elettra Bisogno. The co-producers are Nael Khliefi for Sourat Films and Ulrike Lindmayr and Vincent Stroep for Escautville, with Rita Maria Habib as associate producer and Mohamad Jabaly (Palartic) and Elhum Shakerifar (Hakawat) as executive producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe deal was brokered by Wouter Jansen, CEO of Square Eyes, directly with producer Sami Saeed and Yaqubi of Idioms Film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJansen described the film as \u201ca powerful exploration of Jocelyne Saab\u2019s work in the form of a conversation that never happened.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe narrative that Mohanad has formed shows how strongly her work and her political commitment still resonate today. We are very proud to be helping this urgent film reach its audience, starting with Locarno,\u201d Jansen continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tYaqubi added: \u201cThroughout my career, I have explored the political power of cinema and the ways images shape collective memory. With Revolutionaries Never Die, my dialogue with the late Jocelyne Saab opens a deeply personal reflection on loss, solidarity, and the enduring life of revolutionary images. We are thrilled to partner with Square Eyes, whose commitment to distinctive auteur cinema makes them the perfect collaborator as the film begins its international journey with its world premiere at the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/locarno-film-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_locarno-film-festival\" data-tag=\"locarno-film-festival\">Locarno Film Festival<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: Vienna-based sales agency Square Eyes has acquired world sales rights to Revolutionaries Never Die, the latest feature from Palestinian filmmaker Mohanad Yaqubi, set to debut in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente competition at this year\u2019s Locarno Film Festival.\u00a0 The film\u2019s synopsis reads: \u201cIn 2018, veteran Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab reached out to filmmaker and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Revolutionaries-Never-Die-Still-01-2.jpeg?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}