Title of film : The River

Director Name : Ghassan Salhab

Cast & crew :

Producer : Tania El Khoury

Editor : Michele Tyan

Cast :

  1. 1. Ali Suliman
  2. 2. Yumna Marwan

Synopsis : It's autumn. A man and a woman are about to leave a restaurant situated in the heart of the Lebanese mountains. They are surprised by fighter planes screaming past at low altitude. In the distance, war seems to be breaking out once more. Losing sight of the woman, the man starts looking for her. He finds her on the other side of the mountain. Together they sink deeper into nature which becomes increasingly spectral, just like the slender thread that ties them to each other.

Director Bio : Ghassan Salhab was born in Dakar, Senegal. In addition to making his own films, he teaches film in Lebanon. He has directed eight full-length films: “Beyrouth Fantôme”, “Terra Incognita”, “The Last Man”,”The Mountain”, “The Valley” in addition to numerous essays and different video works, including “Posthumous”, “Chinese Ink”, “Son Image”, and “Le voyage immobile”. 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)”.

Filmography :

  1. 1. Beyrouth Fantôme ( 1998 )
  2. 2. Terra Incognita ( 2002 )
  3. 3. The Last Man ( 2006 )
  4. 4. 1958 ( 2009 )
  5. 5. The Mountain ( 2010 )
  6. 6. The Valley ( 2014 )
  7. 7. An open Rose/Warda ( 2019 )
  8. 8. The river ( 2021 )