A love letter to Beirut — playful, personal, and built entirely from archival footage. Drawing on 70 years of Lebanese film, television, home videos, and photography, Do You Love Me reconstructs a fragmented history in a country without a national archive. Through the eyes of citizens, filmmakers, and artists, it explores the Lebanese collective psyche: its joy and intimacy, its destruction and loss, its enduring creative spirit.
Source: Press kit
Awards:
Hamburg Film Festival 2025: Political Film Award of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Doclisboa 2025: Honorable Mention — "a poetic film in a form we have never seen before"
Cinemed 2025: Special Mention
DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival 2026: Best Film in International Competition
Festival circuit: Venice (Giornate degli Autori, world premiere) · IDFA · SXSW · CPH:DOX · Marrakech · Cairo · Göteborg · New Directors/New Films
RT: 75 mins.
Director: LANA DAHER