editing
Qutaiba Barhamji
sound
Pierre Armand

post-production manager
Denis Liakhov
archive producers
Denis Liakhov
Lana Daher
colorist
Alexis Lambotte

productions
Films de Force Majeure
My Little Films
co-productions
Wood Water Films
Studio Lemon
producers
Jean-Laurent Csinidis
Lana Daher
co-producers
Jasper Mielke
Karoline Henkel
Arto Sebasian

with the support of
ARTE France – La Lucarne
IDFA Bertha Fund
Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée
Robert Bosch Stiftung
Fonds Image de la Francophonie
Sundance Institute Documentary
Europe Creative MEDIA
Al-Jazeera Documentary
Doha Film Institute
The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC
Région Provence-Alpes Côte d’Azur (en partenariat avec le CNC)
PROCIREP – Société des producteurs & ANGOA
Lebanese Film Fund
AFLAMUNA
associate producers
Jérôme Nunes
Nora Bertone
Nadi Lekol Nas

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.  

2025 Do You Love Me (doc)

“I was born in 1983, in the middle of the Lebanese Civil War. The same cycles of aggression and uneasy calm that shaped my childhood still define life here. Having lived through endless waves of conflict, I’ve witnessed their impact on generations before and after me. In our schools, we have no shared history book and our past remains unspoken in public life. This absence pushed me to the archives to search, collect, and listen. To understand not only what came before, but the present we inhabit. Beirut is home. It is a city suspended in the in-between: between violence and endurance, fragility and renewal. It carries a strong sense of identity and perseverance, yet an equally deep vulnerability. Living here means navigating extremes, again and again. Do You Love Me is a reflection on Beirut today. By reinterpreting fragments of films, songs, and photographs, I hope to distill this city’s layered reality – its memory, resistance, joy and tenderness – and give these images new life, opening a space to explore, remember, and simply feel.”  (Lana Daher)

Lana Daher is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist based in Beirut. 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. 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.