Official competition feature films

LA VALLEE : LEBANON, FRANCE, GERMANY, QATAR, UAE (2014)

Fiction - 134 minutes

Awards and prizes: Best director Award Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2014

Director: Ghassan Salhab

Screenplay: Ghassan Salhab

Cinematography: Bassem Fayad

Music: Cynthia Zaven- Sherif Sehnaoui

Editor: Michele Tyan

Sound: Karine Bacha, Lama Sawaya, Rana Eid, Florent Lavallée

Email : contact@abboutproductions.com

Cast: Carlos Chahine, Carole Abboud, Fadi Abi Samra, Mounzer Baalbaki, Yumna Marwan, Aouni Kawas

Synopsis

Following a car accident on a lone mountain road, a middle-aged man loses his memory. Drenched in blood, he continues to walk along the deserted path. Further down the road, he encounters people with engine trouble and helps them get their car running again. They are reluctant to leave him stranded, so they take him home to their large estate in the Bekaa valley, a place where production is not only agricultural, and a place he may never leave again...

Director's biography


Ghassan Salhab was born in Dakar, Senegal. He teaches film at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts. Along with several short films, his features as a writer-director include Phantom Beirut, The Moutain. The Valley is his latest film.

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