Scanorama

November 5 - 22

2026

Open My Festival
Main Competition

Do You Love Me

1 hr. 15 min. | Documentary | Pegi 13

“In Lebanon, contemporary history is not taught in schools,” declares the film’s opening title. How can a painful and fragmented history be told in a country without a national archive? Drawing on films, news reports, home movies and popular songs spanning the past seventy years, filmmaker Lana Daher explores the Lebanese collective consciousness, shaped equally by joy and grief. Images of the civil war give way to Israeli bombardments, while rituals of everyday life - weddings and domestic scenes - punctuate the political narrative. Poetically weaving together disparate media, Daher reconstructs the country’s memory. Making and watching films become acts of preserving its history.
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Lana Daher

Lana Daher

A filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist based in Beirut, Lebanon, Lana Daher studied filmmaking, visual arts and graphic design. She is an active presence on Beirut’s art and music scenes, bringing together sound, image and archival research in her work. Her debut feature, Do You Love Me, is accompanied by a website cataloguing the project’s sources and materials. The project aims to bring Lebanon’s cinematic heritage to a wider audience.
Languages
Arabic, English, French
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
Do You Love Me
Produced
2025: France, Lebanon, Germany, Qatar

Film information

Director
Lana Daher
Producers
Jean-Laurent Csinidis, Lana Daher
Music
Pierre Armand
More information
www.imdb.com
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