Welcome to Beirut.
Disorientation is part of the journey.
A cinematic and immersive journey through 70 years of images and sounds from Lebanon. Exploring the collective psyche of Beirut, marked by beauty, joy, destruction, and forgetting.
Disorientation is part of the journey.
A cinematic and immersive journey through 70 years of images and sounds from Lebanon. Exploring the collective psyche of Beirut, marked by beauty, joy, destruction, and forgetting.
Do You Love Me is a cinematic, playful, and personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory—a love letter, made entirely from archival material, by director Lana Daher to her hometown, Beirut.
Spanning seven decades of cinema, home movies, television broadcasts, popular culture, and photography, the film explores the collective psyche of the Lebanese people: fueled by joy and intimacy, yet scarred by recurring cycles of violence, fear, and loss. Composed entirely of existing footage, it reconstructs a fragmented history through the eyes of the filmmakers and artists who have long questioned how memory endures in a country with no central archive and no officially shared narrative.
Do You Love Me is a tribute to the power of image and sound, and a reflection on the cyclical nature of remembrance and history. It celebrates the creative instinct as a form of resistance and stands as a testament to the power of art in navigating grief and renewal.
Spanning seven decades of cinema, home movies, television broadcasts, popular culture, and photography, the film explores the collective psyche of the Lebanese people: fueled by joy and intimacy, yet scarred by recurring cycles of violence, fear, and loss. Composed entirely of existing footage, it reconstructs a fragmented history through the eyes of the filmmakers and artists who have long questioned how memory endures in a country with no central archive and no officially shared narrative.
Do You Love Me is a tribute to the power of image and sound, and a reflection on the cyclical nature of remembrance and history. It celebrates the creative instinct as a form of resistance and stands as a testament to the power of art in navigating grief and renewal.
