Ghassan Salhab
Ghassan Salhab (غسان سلهب, born 4 May 1958) is a Lebanese film director, screenwriter and educator born in Dakar, Senegal, living and working in Beirut. He has directed eight feature-length films in addition to numerous shorter-form essay films and video works. His work has screened widely on the international stage, including dedicated focuses at La Rochelle International Film Festival, JCC Carthage, GIFF (Mexico), La Cinémathèque du Québec amongst others. He teaches at institutions throughout Lebanon and has published texts and articles in various magazines, as well as two books: fragments du Livre du naufrage and à contre-jour (depuis Beyrouth).
Filmography
Chinese Ink (2016), Son Image (2016), The Valley (2014), Everybody know this is nowhere (2012), The Mountain (2011), Le massacre des innocents (2010), 1958 (2009), (Posthume) (2007), Dead Time (2006), Le dernier homme (The last man) (2006), Brève rencontre avec Jean Luc Godard (2005), Lost Narcissus (2004), My dead body, my living body (2003), Terra incognita (2002), Nobody’s Rose (2000), Baalbeck (2000), Of Seduction (1999), Beyrouth fantôme (1998), Afrique fantôme (1994), The Other (1991), After Death (1991), The Key (1986)
