As night falls on Beirut, a forty-year old man heads for Beirut airport, supposed to leave the country for a month. But instead of taking off, he rents a car, leaves the city and heads north on a mountainous road.
As night falls on Beirut, a forty-year old man heads for Beirut airport, supposed to leave the country for a month. But instead of taking off, he rents a car, leaves the city and heads north on a mountainous road.
Ghassan Salhab was born the 4th may 1958 in Dakar, Senegal. In addition to making his own films, he collaborates on scenarios, teaches film in Lebanon and is a consultant to script-writing and film-making workshops. He has directed eight feature films: Beyrouth Fantôme; Terra Incognita; The Last Man; 1958; The Mountain; The Valley; An Open Rose/Warda and The River in addition to numerous film essays and various video works, including (Posthumous); Chinese Ink; Son Image and Le Voyage Immobile with Mohamed Soueid. Tributes to his work have been organised at La Rochelle International Film Festival, JCC Carthage, GIFF (Mexico) and La Cinémathèque du Québec. He has also published different texts and articles in various magazines and two books Fragments du Livre du Naufrage and Á Contre-jour (depuis Beyrouth).
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