Do You Love Me is a playful and personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual past, composed entirely of archival footage. Spanning 70 years of film, TV, home videos, and photography, it reflects on the Lebanese collective psyche - marked by joy and intimacy, but also by 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 and a way to preserve memory.
CREW:
Director: Lana Daher
Producer: Jean-Laurent Csinidis, LanaDaher; Archive producers: Denis Liakhov, Lana Daher
Editor: Qutaiba Bahramji
Sound: Pierre Armand
Production
FilmsdeForceMajeure(FR),MyLittleFilms(LB), WoodWaterFilms(DE),StudioLemon(FR)
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Awards
Political Film Award of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Hamburg Film Festival 2025;
Honorable Mention — Doclisboa 2025;
Special Mention — Cinemed 2025;
Best Film in International CompetitionDocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival 2026
Director
Lana Daher
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. 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: doyouloveme.film. An IDFAcademy alumna, Lana also co-produced the film through her company, My Little Films, founded in 2024.Selected Filmography
Do You Love Me (2025)
