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Lana Daher, 2025, 75 min.
In French, Arabic and English, with English subtitles

Do You Love Me, directed by Lana Daher, is a playful and personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage. It is a bittersweet love letter to Beirut, spanning 70 years of film, newsreels, television shows, home videos, pop songs 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 resistance, renewal and a way to preserve memory.

Watch the trailer here.

“Director Lana Daher achieves something extraordinary. Driven by longing, she ascends into the highs and lows of the images of the past, piecing together a mosaic of memories – her own and those of others – that reveals a future which could be beautiful. 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

Watch Lana Daher's excellent interview about the making of Do You Love Me, recorded after the screening of her film in the 2026 New Directors/New Films 2026 festival at Lincoln Center. 

Photo © Tanya Traboulsi

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. Do You Love Me is her debut feature. An IDFAcademy alumna, Lana also co-produced the film through her company, My Little Films, founded in 2024.

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