Olga Nakkas

Biography

Olga Nakkas or Naccache (born March 30, 1953) is a Turkish-Lebanese documentary filmmaker.

Olga Nakkas was born on March 30, 1953 in Mersin, Turkey, the daughter of a Turkish mother and a Lebanese father. Her family moved to Beirut, Lebanon in 1958. She studied in Paris and worked for the BBC and Canal Plus. At the end of the Lebanese Civil War, she returned to Beirut.

Her film ‘Ashura (1987) is about Shi‘ites in southern Lebanon during the holiday of Ashura. She described her work about women in post-war Lebanon, Lebanon, Bits and Pieces (1992), as "the first film into which I really put a lot of myself. It deals with my relationship with my past and with a country I love and hate at the...