Ghassan Salhab 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 completed 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”.