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Filmmaker Lana Daher Explores Lebanon's Troubled History in 'Do You Love Me'

2/19/2026

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Lana Daher, filmmaker, presents Do You Love Me, examining Lebanon's civil war and ongoing societal challenges.
The film notes violence and cultural erasure in Lebanese cinema and draws on over 20,000 sources.
Daher highlights the need to remember the past despite the absence of a national archive.
It covers the 2019 protests and the 2020 Beirut port explosion and informs its resilience theme.

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Story summary

Lana Daher, filmmaker, presents Do You Love Me, examining Lebanon's civil war and ongoing societal challenges.
The film notes violence and cultural erasure in Lebanese cinema and draws on over 20,000 sources.
Daher highlights the need to remember the past despite the absence of a national archive.
It covers the 2019 protests and the 2020 Beirut port explosion and informs its resilience theme.