Do You Love Me — Lana Daher
Disorientation is part of the journey. Welcome to Lebanon.
Do You Love Me is a 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 means to preserve memory.
about
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.
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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.
doyouloveme.film/
76min
Lebanon, France, Germany 2025
Colour & B&W
Language: Arabic, French, English
Subtitles: ENG
Directed by Lana Daher
Written by Lana Daher & Qutaiba Barhamji
Editing Qutaiba Barhamji
Sound Pierre Armand
Post-production manager Denis Liakhov
Archive producers Denis Liakhov & Lana Daher
Colorist Alexis Lambotte
Produced by Jean-Laurent Csinidis, Lana Daher
Production companies Films de Force Majeure, My Little Films
Co-produced by Jasper Mielke, Karoline Henkel, Arto Sebasian
Co-production Wood Water Films (DE); Studio Lemon (FR)
