75 minutes / Color/B&W
French; Arabic; English / English subtitles
Release: 2026
Copyright: 2025
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.
“Director Lana Daher achieves something extraordinary. Through her meticulous, years-long, almost obsessive process, she has created a poetic film in a form we have never seen before.” —Jury Statement, Political Film Award of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung at Hamburg Film Festival 2025
“In Lebanon, there isn’t even a national archive, and this small film, just over an hour long, is an important step towards building a shared audiovisual memory: it is made up exclusively of archival footage that embrace about 70 years of the country’s history and culture. Do You Love Me confirms that in Lebanon, life can be very sad, but also very beautiful.” —Cineuropa
“Do You Love Me is a gripping personal cinematic essay that captures a country’s emotional memories with a subtle eye, but it’s also an entertaining, playful journey that reflects on the springs of collective memory.” —En Primera Fila
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