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Ghassan Salhab

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Ghassan Salhab is a Lebanese screenwriter and film director.

Ghassan Salhab is a Lebanese screenwriter and film director.

He collaborates on various projects and teaches film in Lebanon. He has directed feature films such as ‘Beyrouth Fantôme’, ‘Terra Incognita’, ‘The Last Man’, ‘1958’, ‘The Mountain’, ‘The Valley’, ‘An Open Rose/Warda’, ‘The River’ and ‘Night Is Day’. In addition to numerous essays and different video works, including ‘(Posthumous)’, ‘Chinese Ink’, ‘Son Image’, and ‘Le Voyage Immobile’, with Mohamed Soueid. La Rochelle International Film Festival, JCC Carthage, GIFF (Mexico), and La Cinémathèque du Québec have paid tribute to his work, as well as a retrospective in Paris. He has also published different texts and articles in various magazines, and two books: Fragments du Livre du Naufrage and À Contre-Jour (Depuis Beyrouth).