Do You Love Me (75 min.) had its world premiere in September 2025 at the 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival, as part of the official selection of Giornate degli Autori.
Do You Love Me is 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.
Credits
Directed by Lana Daher
Written by Lana Daher & Qutaiba Barhamji
Editing Qutaiba Barhamji
Sound Pierre Armand
Post-production manager Denis Liakhov
Archive producers Denis Liakhov & Lana Daher
Colorist Alexis Lambotte
Produced by Jean-Laurent Csinidis, Lana Daher
Production companies Films de Force Majeure, My Little Films
Co-produced by Jasper Mielke, Karoline Henkel, Arto Sebasian
Co-production Wood Water Films (DE); Studio Lemon (FR)
World Sales Lightdox
Awards Best International Film at Doc Point-Helsinki International Film Festival, Political Film Award of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung at Hamburg Film Festival, Honorable Mention at DocLisboa, Special Mention at Cinemed
Screenings 2025 World Premiere at the 82nd Venice Film Festival (Giornate degli Autori 2025), Hamburg Film Festival, Middle East Now Festival, Doclisboa, Sao Paulo IFF, Cinemed, IFFMH Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Movies on War, Cairo International Film Festival, IDFA, RIDM, Marrakech International Film Festival, Watch Docs Screenings 2026 Goteborg Film Festival, DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, DocPoint Tallinn, Antenna DFF, ICA London
Upcoming Screenings Documental Ambulante (March 5 – May 21), CPH:DOX (March 11-22), SXSW (March 12-18), La Clef Revival Paris (March 15), Docville (March 18-26), Arab Film Days Oslo (March 19-22)
Supported by 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 (in partnership with CNC), PROCIREP – Société des producteurs & ANGOA, Lebanese Film Fund, AFLAMUNA
