Ghassan Shmeit

Ghassan Shmeit was born in 1956 in Ein Qiniya, a village in the Golan that his family had to leave in 1967: a lorry dropped them in a neighbourhood of Jaramana, south-east of Damascus. An external candidate for the baccalaureate, enrolled in geography, he obtained a scholarship to study cinema in the Soviet Union and graduated in 1982 from the Kiev institute with a master's degree in directing. Since then he has worked for the public body, making documentaries and fiction films, awarded prizes in Sfax and Damascus, and has made the exodus from the Golan the thread of almost all his work.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmشيء ما يحترقGhassan Shmeit · 1993Cinema