Do You Love Me (2026)
Director: Lana Daher
A whimsical and deeply intimate voyage through Lebanon’s visual and sonic past, crafted solely from found footage. This cinematic tribute to Beirut weaves together seven decades of cinema, television, personal recordings, and snapshots, delving into the nation’s collective soul—a landscape of bliss and closeness, ruin and grief. Seen through the lens of everyday people, directors, and artists, it pieces together a fractured story in a land lacking a central archive, honoring artistic expression as an act of defiance, rebirth, and a means to safeguard remembrance.
More About This Film
Do You Love Me is an archival documentary about Lebanon's audiovisual memory and the cultural history of Beirut. Lana Daher constructs the film entirely from existing footage, drawing on seven decades of cinema, television, home videos, photographs, and other images.
The documentary treats the archive as both historical evidence and a way of preserving personal and collective memory. Through the experiences of citizens, filmmakers, artists, and families, the film moves between joy, intimacy, destruction, loss, and the persistent role of creative expression.
- Directed and written by Lana Daher.
- Runtime is approximately 75 minutes.
- The film uses archival material rather than newly filmed interviews as its principal visual source.
- It is a Lebanon-France-Germany production.
- The documentary received the Political Film Award of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung at the Hamburg Film Festival.
Where to Watch
Do You Love Me has an international festival and art-cinema distribution profile, with availability varying by territory.
- Icarus Films – rental/educational purchase where available
- YouTube – trailer and clips
- Netflix – subscription if available
- Prime Video – subscription/rental/purchase where offered
- Apple TV – rental/purchase where offered
- Google TV – rental/purchase where offered