Georges Nasser
[4] Nasser moved to California to attend UCLA and became one the first Arab filmmakers to obtain a film degree in the United States.[6] After sixty years, the film was screened again in its restored print version as part of the Cannes Classics events in 2017,[7] after which Nasser, who is known as the "Father of Lebanese Cinema" received a standing ovation.[10] In the 1990s he began a project to create a film of the life of Egyptian actress Faten Hamama entitled Lee Ouyon al-Nas but it was never completed.[11][10][12] The film known in French as Vers L'Inconnu, was a mix of melodrama and Italian neo-realism,[5] and cowritten with Halim Fares and Youssef Habchi Achkar.Because the family is struggling, the father decides, like most men in the Levant at the time, to immigrate to Brazil, leaving his wife to raise the children, but he’s never heard from again.