International Competition
Do You Love Me
Lana Daher / France, Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / 2025 / 75′
Do You Love Me is a playful and personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage: a love letter to Beirut, spanning 70 years of film, television, amateur video and photography, exploring Lebanon’s collective mindset, 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 a form of resistance, renewal and preservation of memory.
Director Lana Daher
Screenplay Lana Daher, Qutaiba Barhamji
Editing Qutaiba Barhamji
Production Jean-Laurent Csinidis
Produced by Films de Force Majeure, My Little Films, Wood Water Films, Studio Lemon
INTRASTEVERE CINEMA – Room 1, May 28, 7 p.m.
Author speaks
Lana Daher
Lana Daher is a multidisciplinary filmmaker and artist based in Beirut, Lebanon. With a background in fine arts and graphic design (BFA, American University of Beirut) and filmmaking (MA, Goldsmiths, University of London), she has long been active in Beirut’s art and music scene, working with sound, image and archival materials. Her work is based on in-depth research and intuitive storytelling, exploring the space between documentary and fiction, bringing different historical periods and emotional landscapes into dialogue. Do You Love Me is her debut feature film. Along with the film, she created a website, a curated index of the resources and materials behind the project, with the goal of reconnecting Lebanon’s film heritage with local and international audiences.An IDFAcademy alumna, Lana also co-produced the film through her company,My Little Films, founded in 2024.