Workshop 1

120'
1958 © Ghassan Salhab_Abbout Productions

(POSTHUME) / ما بعدا
Ghassan Salhab / 2007 / Lebanon / 29 min / Arabic
Production: Ghassan Salhab / Photography: Louis Sarmad / Sound: Rana Eid / Editing: Simon El Habre / Original music: Pēteris Vasks, Wu Tang Clan, Six Organs of Admittance

Filmed some time after the Israeli attack that took place in the summer of 2006, this essay questions the status of fiction facing the ubiquity of reality.

1958
Ghassan Salhab / 2009 / Lebanon / 1h06 / Arabic, French, English
Production: Abbout Productions / Photography: Louis Sarmad / Sound: Karin Al Bacha, Rana Eid / Editing: Simon El Habre / Original music: Pēteris Vasks, Wooden Shjips, Giacento Scelsi, Asmahan

In 1958, a woman gives birth to her first child in Senegal, her land of immigration, while
Lebanon, her country of origin, sinks into severe internal strife, heralding the future civil
war.

Screenings followed by a discussion with Ghassan Salhab.

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