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Place of Birth: Dakar, Senegal
About Ghassan Salhab
- Ghassan Salhab (Arabic; ???? ????, 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… all films have been selected in various international film festivals.
- He just 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, with Mohamed Soueid.
- 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”.
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