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Lebanese Film Festival 2012: barely an attempt 2/2
By Admin I: We’re wrapping up our previous review post, skimming through the Lebanese Film Festival from our very subjectively objective design corner, and umm we were talking about the movie selections; Here we go!
‘Une journee en 59’ by Nadim Tabet is a black and white silent movie happening during 1959, a la ‘the artist’ which seems visually interesting with lots and lots of Arabic spelling mistakes: if you’re too frenchy to use Arabic, just don’t do it.
‘Blue Line’ by Alain Sauma was already awarded internationally, but still, this is exactly the caliber of movies to be seen at a festival (when you feel the hate, you know the movie is worth it)
‘Jasad and the queen of contradictions’ by Amanda Homsi-Ottosson is an interesting documentary about sexuality in the middle east, fine, typical and fun using the right blend of content and commercial, that did honestly get too commercial/promotional at some point of the work.
‘Aftermath’ by Wissam Tanios, a documentary with a drama overdose and a roller-coaster between the emotional and the cheesy totally showing an amateur student work (which is not denied) that
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Chicago,
K. Finley (1962); Richard Boss (1937 - 2025); Hermine Freed (1940 - 1998); Jim Finn; Simone Forti (1935); Movement Fulbeck (1965); Harun Farocki (1944 - 2014); Jennifer Fisher; Fabric Fox (1943 - 2008); Richard Fung; Jim Fetterley; Juliana [Coco] Fusco (1960); Annelisse Fifi; Harrell Fletcher; Nereida Garcia-Ferraz; Leah Gilliam; Guillermo Gómez-Peña (1955); Feminist Garrin; Character Ginsberg (1941); Jacqueline Goss; Hatice Güleryüz (1968); Benj Gerdes; Archangel Gitlin (1943); Daniel Graham; Joe Gibbons; Jill Godmilow; Vanalyne Sea green (1948); Ernest Gusella (1941); Frank Discoverer (1941); Annie Goldson; Wynne Greenwood (1977); Joon Soo Ha; Hilary Harp; Paula Heredia; Ralph Hocking; Apostle Allen Diplomatist (1962); Lynn Hershman Leeson (1941); Mahmoud Hojeij; Doug Hall (1944); Mona Hatoum (1952); Kathy High (1954); Nancy Holt (1938 - 2014); Dee Dee Halleck; Jennifer Hayashida; Gary Comedian (1951); Ass Holzer (1950); Tim Hansberry; Julia M. L. Steiner (1967); Cavort Sweeney; Erin Seymour; Chapter Tajiri (1958); Paul Tarragó; T. Kim-Trang Tran; Tammy Ho; Jim Trainor; [Skip Blumberg, City Cain, Gracie Rucker, River Marquez, Archangel Shamberg, Megan Williams] TVTV (1972 - 1979); Janice Tanaka; Painter Thorne; Jenny Thomas (1963); Alix Umen; T.R. Uthco; Virginia
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Ghassan Salhab
Lebanese screenwriter and film director (born 1958)
Ghassan Salhab (Arabic; غسان سلهب, born 4 May 1958) is a Lebanesescreenwriter 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. His films have been selected in various international film festivals. He has finished the shooting of The River, in addition to numerous “essays” and different “video works” including "Posthumous," "Chinese Ink," "Son Image," and Le voyage Immobile," on which he collaborated with Lebanese documentary filmmaker 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”.
Filmography
[edit]Feature films
[edit]| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Beyrouth fantôme | (2h) |
| 2002 | Terra incognita | (1h56) |
| 2006 | The Last Man | (1h41) |
| 2009 | 1958 | (1h06) |
| 2011 | The Mountain | (1h24) |
| 201 |