Still from Whispers (1980) by Maroun Bagdadi
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 videos, and photography, exploring 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.
CÉLINE: I couldn't stop thinking about this film — It's like a dream, like downloading an emotion onto people about what it feels like to live in Lebanon, to be Lebanese, to survive all of these things.