Do You Love Me

Lana Daher’s journey through Beirut’s fractured historical, social, cultural, and political landscapes. Using mainly archive footage, the film weaves the past and present together to better understand Lebanon’s history and current status today.

LENGTH

Feature

GENRE

Documentary

PRODUCED IN

Lebanon / Germany

STATUS

In Progress

WITH THE HELP OF

impact
campaign

Put the spotlight on the individual struggles of young refugees trying to find opportunities to fulfill their dreams. Contribute to the conversation about the legal status of the refugees in their hosting countries. Encourage sports and talent oriented activities in refugee camps. Inspire the younger generation of refugees to invest in their dreams.

meet the director

Lana Daher, (b. 1983) is a filmmaker living and working in Beirut, Lebanon. Her early experience in experimenting with audio visual media led her to collaborate with artists and musicians from the Lebanese underground music scene on videos and print work. Lana earned her BFA in Graphic Design from the American University of Beirut and her MA in Filmmaking from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2012. ‘Do You Love Me’ (working title) is her first feature documentary which she is directing as well as co-producing. Drawing from her life in Lebanon, her work explores the current environment and themes of society, memory, history and how we can live in the present.

meet the producer

Wood Water Films that’s Jasper Mielke, Karoline Henkel and Arto Sebastian. They got together during their studies at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg and set out in 2016 to fulfill their collective dream of their own production company in Berlin. Their focus are debut films. Their passion are fiction and documentary films with cultural and social-political subjects. Thereby the spectrum ranges from cinema documentary features like DO YOU LOVE ME directed by Lana Daher or MAYOR, SHEPHERD, WIDOW, DRAGON by Eliza Petkova to debut fiction features like YOU TELL ME from director Michael Fetter Nathansky and ,many more which all have received a great deal of attention in the national and international film industry.

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