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Do You Love Me | Lana Daher

Greek Premiere

Dates

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Friday
Time
20:30
Venue
Main Stage

Information

Duration

75 minutes

Post-Screening Discussion

Following the premiere, a discussion will take place with director Lana Daher, and Onassis Foundation Artistic Director Afroditi Panagiotakou.

Seventy years of images and sounds from Lebanon are condensed into an immersive cinematic journey. Lana Daher’s multi-award-winning documentary is screened for the first time in Greece at the Onassis Stegi, through a collaboration between the Athens International Film Festival and Onassis Culture.

Still from the film, Whispers (1980) by Maroun Bagdadi

Welcome to Beirut. Disorientation is part of the journey.

"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, television, home videos and photography, and exploring the Lebanese collective psyche, marked by joy and intimacy, but also by 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 both as an act of resistance and renewal and as a means of preserving memory.

Director Lana Daher, an Onassis AiR Fellow for 2026–27, comes to Onassis Stegi to present her acclaimed documentary to Athenian audiences as part of the 32nd Athens International Film Festival.

Do You Love Me

Do You

Do You

About the director

Information

Year of production: 2025

Languages: Arabic, French, English

Format: Color/B&W, 16:9, 25 fps, 5.1/stereo

Countries of production: France, Lebanon, Germany, Qatar

Credits

  • Directed by

    Lana Daher

  • Written by

    Lana Daher & Qutaiba Barhamji

  • Editing

    Qutaiba Barhamji

  • Sound

    Pierre Armand

  • Post-production manager

    Denis Liakhov

  • Archive producers

    Denis Liakhov & Lana Daher

  • Colorist

    Alexis Lambotte

  • Post-production supervisor

    Nora Bertone

  • Delegate producer

    Jean-Laurent Csinidis

  • Produced by

    Jean-Laurent Csinidis & Lana Daher

  • Co-produced by

    Jasper Mielke, Karoline Henkel, Arto Sebasian

  • Associate producers

    Jérôme Nunes, Nora Bertone, Nadi Lekol Nas

  • Production companies

    Films de Force Majeure (FR), My Little Films (LB)

  • Coproduction companies

    Wood Water Films (DE), Studio Lemon (FR)

  • Supported by

    ARTE France – La Lucarne (Fabrice Puchault, Rasha Salti); IDFA Bertha Fund; Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée; Robert Bosch Stiftung; Fonds Image de la Francophonie; Sundance Institute Documentary; Creative Europe MEDIA (European Union); Al-Jazeera Documentary; Doha Film Institute; The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC; Région Provence-Alpes Côte d'Azur (in partnership with CNC); PROCIREP - Société des producteurs & ANGOA; Lebanese Film Fund; AFLAMUNA

  • Project selected at

    RIDM Documentary Forum 2019; Dok.Fest Munich Marketplace 2019; IDFA Project Space 2020; IDFA Forum 2021; Al-Jazeera Balkans Industry Days 2022; Qumra 2023; Cannes Docs 2023; IDFA Rough-Cuts 2024

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