Rotten Tomatoes
Submit search Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes

Do You Love Me

Play trailer Poster for Do You Love Me Jul 2026 1h 15m Documentary Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist Tomatometer Popcornmeter
Tomatometer 7 Reviews Popcornmeter 0 Ratings
Do You Love Me is a playful and 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 both resistance, renewal and a way to preserve memory.

Critics Reviews

View More
Nicolas Rapold New York Times 2d
Do You Love Me serves as a coming-to-terms and as a vibrant counternarrative to the numbing closed circuit of a Lebanon enduring attacks to this day, while asserting the right to an identity outside that context. Go to Full Review Lauren Wissot Slant Magazine Jul 1
3/4
The film understands that historical truth and personal memory are inseparable. Go to Full Review Jonathan Romney Financial Times Jun 12
4/5
Together with co-writer and co-editor Qutaiba Barhamji, [Lana Daher] assembles excerpts from feature films, documentaries, home movies, archive TV footage and elsewhere, building up a densely textured non-chronological history. Go to Full Review Allison Hasiba Abdallah Screen Slate 2d
The soundtrack of Do You Love Me in itself is an account of the transmission of inherited traumas, as Fairuz and her late son, Ziad Rahbani, both sing of love and longing for a Beirut that once was. Go to Full Review Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru 3d
An experimental and unconventional, but underwhelming and frustrating portrait of Beirut throughout the past 7 decades. Go to Full Review Edward Douglas The Weekend Warrior (Substack) 4d
Has to be watched to fully comprehend what Ms. Daher was trying to accomplish, and even then, it might require multiple viewings. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
Do You Love Me

My Rating

Read More Read Less WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW POST RATING

Cast & Crew

View All

Lana Daher

Director

Lana Daher

Screenwriter

Qutaiba Barhamji

Screenwriter

Jean-Laurent Csinidis

Producer

Lana Daher

Producer

Qutaiba Barhamji

Film Editor
View All

Do You Love Me

View more photos

Movie Info

Synopsis Do You Love Me is a playful and 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 both resistance, renewal and a way to preserve memory.
Director
Lana Daher
Producer
Jean-Laurent Csinidis, Lana Daher
Screenwriter
Lana Daher, Qutaiba Barhamji
Distributor
Icarus Films
Production Co
Films de Force Majeure, My Little Films
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
French
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 10, 2026, Limited
Runtime
1h 15m