Beirut, Never Again (1976, Jocelyne Saab)

Gunfire and song mix with a poetic voiceover written by the Lebanese writer and painter Etel Adnan (who also wrote a text for Letter from Beirut) in what would become the first entry in Saabs Beirut Trilogy, which searches for traces of life amid the bombedout buildings and errant fires of a ghost city, where even the children have become soldiers, looters, and scavengers.