Do You Love Me

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  • 1hr 16m

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Release Date:

Jul 10, 2026

Runtime:

1hr 16m

Synopsis

Through 70 years of found footage, home movies, and media archives, Beirut's vibrant soul emerges - revealing intimate moments of joy and loss that shaped Lebanon's cultural memory, despite the absence of official records.
Moviegoers are saying
Reviewers describe Lana Daher's 'Do You Love Me' as a Beirut collage built from over 2,000 archival sources spanning 70 years, and they respond most to how it captures the feeling of living through war rather than a dry chronology. One reviewer watched it with their 92-year-old grandfather, who wept and said it felt like his own life on screen, while another noted that the film was screened as Israeli drones buzzed over the theater during the 2024 war on Lebanon. Even the skeptics concede that the emotional beats land, though a few wish it were more historically pointed or less tailored to the diaspora.
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  • Sep 4, 2025

    Amazing work with archives, editing and sound design. Knowing that the work on the film took 7 years and that Lebanon doesn’t have an archive made me appreciate the film even more! I was so surprised how uplifting the film felt in the end, considering the heavy history (no…

    100 Likes
    Natalia
    Natalia
    Apr 13, 2026

    I'm not sure how I'm supposed to rate this film. I feel like this is supposed to be watched as a retrospective, a look back at a past Lebanon and a plea for the future. But it’s a little hard to do that with an israeli drone buzzing above the theater and the south of…

    75 Likes
    karine
    karine
    Apr 30, 2026

    The ‘laissez moi danser’ sequence is soooooo

    56 Likes
    laeti
    laeti
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    Apr 12, 2026

    I watched this with my 92-year-old grandfather who has lived the war. He cried and said he felt like he had seen this film before, like he was watching his own life. A film that resists collective erasure. A film for the people of Beirut who remember. Thank you Lana, you…

    46 Likes
    sometimesd
    sometimesd
    Nov 14, 2025

    The disorientation is a part of the journey

    42 Likes
    Reem
    Reem
    Sep 30, 2025

    How do you tell a history you didn't know existed? In Do You Love Me, director Lana Daher strives to create a history of her home city of Beirut and in the process take the viewer on an intense and intimate journey. Growing up, Daher didn't realize that she herself was a…

    36 Likes
    Daniel Tarik
    Daniel Tarik
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    May 9, 2026

    A collage film about Beirut. Mildly interesting, quickly edited, but unfortunately neither historically very insightful nor emotionally moving. The very short running time helps. Not essential viewing in the cinema; it will be shown on ARTE at some point.

    26 Likes
    Reto Hochstrasser
    Reto Hochstrasser
    Nov 13, 2025

    lebanon mon amour

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    Noble
    Noble
    Feb 5, 2026

    The sea as the conveyor of memories, of blood, of dance, of emotions, of the tides that push the continuum of history and simultaneously pull us back. Yet the sea returns, recurs, and the tidal movement buries one’s in the washes of the sea - so as the violence that…

    20 Likes
    alyssa
    alyssa

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100
Jul 9, 2026

It’s a delicately wrought and tonally complex airing of shared traumas that also breathes with a sense of community.

Metacritic review by Nicolas Rapold
Nicolas Rapold
The New York Times
75
Jun 30, 2026

Do You Love Me is history and memory via montage, an impressionistic cut and paste picture made from thousands of sources — songs, TV shows, home movies, archival news footage and films, a city seen then and barely glimpsed now.

Metacritic review by Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Movie Nation
60
Jun 25, 2026

Though composed of a huge volume of material, Daher’s documentary does not overwhelm, maintaining instead a remarkable rhythm that fluidly moves between calm, exuberance and disorder.

Metacritic review by Phuong Le
Phuong Le
The Guardian

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How long is Do You Love Me (2026)?
The movie is 1hr 16min long.
What's Do You Love Me (2026) about?
Through 70 years of found footage, home movies, and media archives, Beirut's vibrant soul emerges - revealing intimate moments of joy and loss that shaped Lebanon's cultural memory, despite the absence of official records.
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