Do You Love Me is an exciting, sometimes jolting, and surprisingly tender excavation of Beirut’s past and present, crafted entirely from 70 years of archival footage – news documentaries, home videos, TV variety shows, action movies, and musicals. Thoughtfully telling the story of a city with fragments of film and photographs, Lebanese filmmaker Lana Daher has delivered what The Guardian calls “a playful and personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory” and “an ode to the collective courage of Lebanese people.” Born during Lebanon’s 15-year long civil war, Daher returns to images of joy, destruction, intimacy, and loss to ask how a country without a shared history remembers itself. “Beirut is home. It is a city suspended in the in-between: between violence and endurance, fragility and renewal,” Daher has said, and she has used these forgotten images and footage to reinvent the City Film and create, for posterity, a place to remember, and feel, her Beirut. 2025 Venice Film Festival, 2026 SXSW Film Festival. (JH)
This film is part of the of the Wisconsin Film Festival
