Slideshow
PHANTOM BEIRUT
Thursday, June 4
7:40
Lebanon/France, 1998
Directed by Ghassan Salhab
Starring Aouni Kawas, Darina Al Joundi, Carol Abboud
In Arabic with English subtitles
Approx. 120 min.
Lebanon at the end of the ’80s. Ghassan Salhab’s debut follows Khalil as he returns to Beirut under a new identity, forced to confront the old friends and comrades he left behind following his faked death a decade earlier. PHANTOM BEIRUT is a haunting exploration of the official silences and collective amnesias that stalk the lives of those who live through conflict.
Reviews
“In his first feature film, helmer Ghassan Salhab weaves the familiar Lebanese themes of exile, destruction, memory, hope, and illusions into a poem to a beloved city and its people, as scarred as its buildings.”
– Variety
