Randa Chahal Sabag or Sabbagh (Arabic: رندا شهال صباغ, romanized: Randā Shahāl Ṣabbāgh; December 11, 1953, in Tripoli[1] – August 25, 2008 in Paris)[2] was a Lebanese-Iraqi film director, producer and screenwriter.
Born in Lebanon to an Iraqi father and a Lebanese mother,[1] she died of cancer in Paris at the age of 54.
"[3] Chahal served as a jury member at the Venice 64th International Film Festival in the Opera Prima section.
[5] Sabbagh deployed a 'vaudevillian cast'[2] including foreign servants and philanthropists, visiting expatriates, militiamen and criminals – in a profane and dis-unified story mixing elements of absurdist plays.
The drama unfolds under the vigilant yet impotent Israeli-Lebanese border guards; one of whom is played by renowned Lebanese composer, actor and playwright Ziad Rahbani.