Critics Week · 46th Edition
Do you love me
Do You Love Me
Director
Lana Daher
Country
France, Lebanon, Germany, Qatar
Runtime
1 h 20 min
Language
Arabic, French, English
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
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.
Screenplay
Lana Daher & Qutaiba Barhamji
Producers
Jean-Laurent Csinidis, Lana Daher
About the Director
She is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist based in Beirut. With a BFA in Fine Arts and Graphic Design from the American University of Beirut and an MA in Filmmaking from Goldsmiths, University of London, she moves fluidly between sound, image, and archival practice. Deeply rooted in Beirut’s dynamic art and music scenes, her work reflects a rich engagement with the city’s cultural memory and experimental creative forms.
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