Lebanon has no national archive. Lana Daher built one anyway. Do You Love Me assembles 70 years of footage: film, television, home video, photography. Together they form a fragmented portrait of Beirut.
The documentary opens July 10 in US theaters through Icarus Films. It is composed entirely of archival material, finding a country in the images it kept for itself: the joy, the intimacy, the destruction, the loss.
For anyone drawn to documentary, to Lebanon, or to the question of what survives when there are no institutions to protect what gets recorded.
Before you go: Waltz with Bashir asks what moving images can recover from Lebanese war. It is essential company here.
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