A different perspective on life in a troubled country

In her art film about Lebanon, Maeve Brennan wanted to get away from the images we usually see on the news, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

“This car belonged to the martyr Ali Saleh.” A young Lebanese mechanic, Mohammed Zaytoun, sits in his souped-up BMW next to a roadside monument featuring the vehicle in which Saleh, a prominent member of Hezbollah, was assassinated with a car bomb in 2003.