Chinese Ink by Ghassan Salhab

Join us for the screening of Chinese Ink by Ghassan Salhab at the Sursock Museum. The film will be followed by a Q&A session. 

Date: July 18 - 7:30PM

Duration: 55min

Language: Arabic with English subtitles

This event is part of Home Works 9: A Forum on Cultural Practices.

Looking forward to seeing you!

“I hesitated for a long time. More than a step forward, more than one backwards, more than one step sideways. Thousands of times the same gaze through the windows of my own end of the world.”

Chinese Ink (2016) is a film haunted by death and casualties and marked by Lebanon’s story, harking back to generations for whom autobiography and national history are inextricably bound by one another. 

Ghassan Salhab is a filmmaker and writer. He has directed eight full-length films: Beyrouth Fantôme (1998), Terra Incognita (2003), The Last Man (2006), 1958 (2009), The Mountain (2010), The Valley (2014), An open Rose/Warda (2019), and The River (2021). He is the author of two books and various bilingual texts. Salhab often collaborates with different filmmakers and teaches film in several universities in Lebanon.