A dashcam still of Dahieh from Ghassan Salhab’s ‘no title.’ (Credit: Ghassan Salhab)
BEIRUT — During the 2025 lull, after the Nov. 2024 “cease-fire” agreement ended the first phase of Israel’s attacks on the Lebanese capital, Ghassan Salhab drove through Dahieh (Beirut’s southern suburbs) and southern Lebanon. What he filmed there left him at a loss for words. Appropriately, the medium-length 2025 film that issued from these encounters is named “no title.”Running less than 45 minutes, the work might be read as a coda to Salhab’s other 2025 release, “Contretemps.” That film runs over six hours, immersing viewers in the contortions Lebanese underwent between 2019 and 2023, and ends with the sound of explosions rising from southern Lebanon. Both films are freestanding works.The current conflict disrupted the Lebanese premiere of “no title” but it has been projected at several festivals abroad — FID Marseille, DocLisboa,...
BEIRUT — During the 2025 lull, after the Nov. 2024 “cease-fire” agreement ended the first phase of Israel’s attacks on the Lebanese capital, Ghassan Salhab drove through Dahieh (Beirut’s southern suburbs) and southern Lebanon. What he filmed there left him at a loss for words. Appropriately, the medium-length 2025 film that issued from these encounters is named “no title.”Running less than 45 minutes, the work might be read as a coda to Salhab’s other 2025 release, “Contretemps.” That film runs over six hours, immersing viewers in the contortions Lebanese underwent between 2019 and 2023, and ends with the sound of explosions rising from southern Lebanon. Both films are freestanding works.The current conflict disrupted the Lebanese premiere of “no title” but it has been projected at several festivals abroad — FID...
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