Lana Daher is a filmmaker based in Beirut, Lebanon. She holds an MA in Filmmaking (Directing) from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BFA in Graphic Design and Fine Arts from the American University of Beirut. Her research-driven approach to storytelling moves between documentary and fiction.
Her debut feature, Do You Love Me, is an archival essay film composed from Lebanon’s fragmented audiovisual history. The film premiered at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival in 2025 and has since screened at more than 70 festivals worldwide, including IDFA, Marrakech, SXSW, CPH:DOX and New Directors/New Films. The film’s awards include Best International Film at DocPoint Helsinki, the Political Film Award of theFriedrich-Ebert-Stiftung at Filmfest Hamburg, and the UnArchive Award at Unarchive Film Festival in Rome. Lana also received the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
An IDFAcademy alumna, Lana co-produced Do You Love Me through My Little Films, the production company she founded in 2024. Alongside the film, she created a website indexing the sources and materials behind the project. She is an Onassis AiR Fellow (2026/27) and is currently developing her second feature.
Press
The Guardian — A love letter to Beirut
Filmmaker Magazine — Reassembling memory
Metrograph — Ghosts of history
Madame Figaro — Des femmes enracinées
GQ Middle East — Lebanon’s lost images
YUNG — In the name of love
The Guardian — A love letter to Beirut
Filmmaker Magazine — Reassembling memory
Metrograph — Ghosts of history
Madame Figaro — Des femmes enracinées
GQ Middle East — Lebanon’s lost images
YUNG — In the name of love
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