Hugely resonant given current events, Ghassan Salhab's Le Dernier Homme updates the vampire legend onto the shadowy streets of Beirut. Each morning, Beirut awakens to a new victim of what seems to be a serial killer. Victims are found emptied of their blood while across town a forty-year-old doctor begins exhibiting worrying signs of insomnia and malevolent moods. Filmed with Salhab's customary slow-burning approach, Le Dernier Homme is set against a backdrop of escalating tension between Hizbollah and Israel made all the more timely given the month-long war last year waged between the two sides.

Lebanon, 2006 / Ghassan Salhab
With Carlos Chahine
102 mins