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Lebanese Auteur Ghassan Salhab to Shoot Beirut-Set Vampire Movie ‘The Last City,’ With Mad World Handling World Sales (EXCLUSIVE)
Lebanese director Ghassan Salhab will shoot the Beirut-set vampire movie 'The Last City,' on which Mad World is launching world sales in Cannes.
Newly launched Dubai-based sales company Mad World has acquired worldwide rights to Lebanese auteur Ghassan Salhab’s genre-bending next project “The Last City,” which is set in a collapsing Beirut that has fallen prey to vampires. Salhab, 66, who was born in Senegal to Lebanese parents, is considered one of Lebanon ’s standout arthouse directors, known for works such as “Terra Incognita” (2002), The Last Man (2006), “The Mountain” (2011) and “The Valley” (2014), which have premiered at top festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Locarno and Toronto. The narrative structure of Salhab’s latest project – which he plans to start shooting this winter – is divided into five non-consecutive nights that retrace the final weeks of the Lebanese capital, which is “under the sway of vampires in search of new victims who have become increasingly rare,” as the provided synopsis puts it.
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