Ibrahim
Saber
Documentary Filmmaker · Executive Producer · Author
For more than three decades, Ibrahim Saber has worked across journalism, documentary filmmaking and television production, telling stories from some of the world's most challenging environments.
Films made where the story is hardest to tell.
The Last Doctor Standing
Threats, siege, direct targeting, then arrest — how did Dr Hussam Abu Safiya hold out inside Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza until the very last moment, despite everything?
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Eyes of Gaza
Three journalists document the catastrophic situation in Gaza under the Israeli assault. Despite their personal losses and facing death every day, they arm themselves with their cameras to convey the suffering of its people and expose the occupation’s crimes.
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Al-Shifa Hospital: The Crimes They Tried to Bury
Interrogations, random executions, bodies bulldozed — horrific crimes committed by the Israeli army against those trapped inside Al-Shifa Medical Complex, revealed for the first time through the testimony of survivors of the massacre.
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From local newsrooms to international field production — a career that moved with the story, and a practice that moved from reporting the news to making films about the people inside it.
Four books written from the field, not about it.
“A documentary is not an argument. It is time given to a person who was never allowed to finish a sentence.”
I began in newsrooms, where a story lasts ninety seconds. I spent years learning that the most important parts of what I saw never fit inside that. Documentary gave me the room the news did not have: to stay with a person after the crew has packed up, to follow a hospital corridor to the end, to let a silence run.