Do You Love Me (Lana Daher, 2025)
Columbus Premiere
Disorientation is part of the journey—welcome to Lebanon!
Film/Video Theater
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Tickets available to the general public September 4
$8 members
$12 general public
$9 adults 55 and over
$6 students
Do You Love Me is a 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 movies, and newsreels that explore 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 resistance, renewal, and a means to preserve memory. Also, the soundtrack is so full of bangers that you’ll leave the screening with several new favorite songs. In Arabic and French with English subtitles. (75 mins., DCP)
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"Do You Love Me confirms that in Lebanon, life can be very sad, but also very beautiful." Cineuropa
In the press
- Review: “‘Do You Love Me’ Review: Images of a Beirut Beyond War,” Nicolas Rapold, New York Times
- Review: “Do you Love Me,” Vittoria Scarpa, Cineuropa
About the filmmaker
Lana Daher
Lana Daher is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist based in Beirut, Lebanon. With a background in filmmaking (MA, Goldsmiths, University of London) as well as fine arts and graphic design (BFA, American University of Beirut), she has long been active in Beirut’s vibrant art and music scenes, working across sound, image, and archival practices.