Do You Love Me

Made from various archives from the last seven decades, this playful tribute conveys a personal, non-linear, and fragmented journey into Lebanon's intimate and collective memory. 

SYNOPSIS

Do You Love Me is a playful and personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage. It is a love letter to Beirut, spanning 70 years of film, TV, home videos, and photography, exploring the Lebanese collective psyche – marked by joy and intimacy, destruction and loss. Through the eyes of citizens, filmmakers and artists, the film reconstructs a fragmented history in a country without a national archive, celebrating creative expression as both resistance, renewal and a way to preserve memory.

Theme(s): , Culture, History

DETAILS

Director | , Lana Daher
Year | , 2025
Country | , France, Germany, Lebanon, Qatar
Duration | 76 minutes
Original language | , Arabic, English, French
Subtitles | , French

DIRECTOR

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Lana Daher

SEE COMPLETE PROFILE

Lana Daher is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist based in Beirut, Lebanon. With a background in fine arts and graphic design (BFA, American University of Beirut) as well as filmmaking (MA, Goldsmiths, University of London), she has long been active in Beirut’s vibrant art and music scenes, working across sound, image, and archival practices.
Her work is grounded in deep research and intuitive storytelling, exploring the space between documentary and fiction by bringing different time periods and emotional landscapes into dialogue.
Do You Love Me is her debut feature, an archive-based essay film built from Lebanon’s rich but fragmented audiovisual history. Alongside the film, she created a website, a curated index of the resources and materials behind the project, aimed at reconnecting Lebanese film heritage with both local and wider audiences. An IDFAcademy alumna, Lana also co-produced the film through her company, My Little Films, founded in 2024.

CAREER

Venice Film Festival (Giornate degli Autori) · Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal · Doclisboa · IDFA · Hamburg Film Festival · Middle East Now Festival

UPCOMING SCREENINGS

SCREENING 1

10 August 2026 pm31 20h15

Place Henri-Dunant 

A discussion will follow the screening.

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