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Ghassan Salhab

Ghassan Salhab

Lebanese screenwriter and film director (born 1958)

Ghassan Salhab (Arabic; غسان سلهب, born 4 May 1958) is a Lebanese screenwriter and film director born in Dakar, Senegal. In addition to making his own films, he collaborates on various scenarios and teaches film in Lebanon. He has directed six feature films; Beyrouth Fantôme, Terra Incognita, The Last Man, 1958, The Mountain and The Valley. His films have been selected in various international film festivals. He has finished the shooting of The River, in addition to numerous “essays” and different “video works” including "Posthumous," "Chinese Ink," "Son Image," and Le voyage Immobile," on which he collaborated with Lebanese documentary filmmaker Mohamed Soueid.

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In 2016, he was a DAAD (Berlin) guest-resident. La Rochelle International Film Festival, JC Carthage and La Cinémathèque du Québec made a tribute to his work. He has also published different texts and articles in various magazines and a book, “fragments du Livre du naufrage”.

Filmography

Feature films

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Publications

  • Fragments du livre du naufrage, Amers Editions, 2011[1]

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions

References

  1. [1]
    "Fragments du livre du naufrage". Fnac. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Beirut Lab: 1975(2020)". University of California. 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.


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