Ghassan Salhab

Born in Dakar, Ghassan Salhab now lives and works in Beirut. In addition to his own films, he collaborates in the writing of screenplays and teaches at various universities in Lebanon. He has directed eight feature films: Beirut Ghost (1998); Terra Incognita (2002); The Last Man (2006); 1958 (2009); The Mountain (2011), The Valley (2014), An Open Rose / Warda (2019) and The River (2021) - as well as several "essays", including The Motionless Journey (2018) co-directed with Mohamed Soueid, Chinese Ink (2016), His Image (diptych-video, 2016), Everybody know this is nowhere (diptych-video, 2012), Le massacre des innocents (triptych-video, 2010), (Posthumous) (2007), Narcissus lost (2004), My dead body, my living body (2003), La rose de personne (2000) ... all selected in various international festivals or exhibitions. In 2016, he was "guest-in-residence" at the DAAD (Berlin) and in 2020 at the Camargo Foundation. The International Festival of La Rochelle, the JCC of Tunis, the Cinémathèque du Québec and the Festival International de Cine Guanajuato, have devoted a retrospective to him. Author of two books: "fragments of the Book of the shipwreck" (2012, Amers Editions) and "against the light (from Beirut)" (2021, of the incidence publisher), as well as various texts published in specialized magazines.