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DO YOU LOVE ME is a playful and 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.
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Nicolas Rapold New York Times Jul 9
Do You Love Me serves as a coming-to-terms and as a vibrant counternarrative to the numbing closed circuit of a Lebanon enduring attacks to this day, while asserting the right to an identity outside that context. Go to Full Review Lauren Wissot Slant Magazine Jul 1
3/4
The film understands that historical truth and personal memory are inseparable. Go to Full Review Jonathan Romney Financial Times Jun 12
4/5
Together with co-writer and co-editor Qutaiba Barhamji, [Lana Daher] assembles excerpts from feature films, documentaries, home movies, archive TV footage and elsewhere, building up a densely textured non-chronological history. Go to Full Review Joseph Fahim Middle East Eye Aug 28
At best, the film can be seen as a love letter to Lebanese cinema; but given the fact that independent cinema was never popular in Lebanon, and was never part of the collective consciousness, Daher’s flimsy, sloppy thesis doesn’t hold true. Go to Full Review Sarah Ward AWFJ.org Jul 12
As heartbreaking as it is celebratory, and as reflective as it is brimming with resistance. Go to Full Review Allison Hasiba Abdallah Screen Slate Jul 9
The soundtrack of Do You Love Me in itself is an account of the transmission of inherited traumas, as Fairuz and her late son, Ziad Rahbani, both sing of love and longing for a Beirut that once was. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Stephen C @bob25009 Jul 14 Real footage in 1.25 hours. See more Read all reviews
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Lana Daher

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Lana Daher

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Qutaiba Barhamji

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Synopsis DO YOU LOVE ME is a playful and 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.
Director
Lana Daher
Screenwriter
Lana Daher, Qutaiba Barhamji, Lana Daher
Distributor
Icarus Films
Production Co
Films de Force Majeure, My Little Films
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 10, 2026, Limited
Runtime
1h 15m
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