Do You Love Me
Qumra Projects
/ Feature Documentary / Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar
In Arabic, English, French
Rated: This film has not been rated.
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Synopsis
‘Do You Love Me’ is an archive-based documentary that portrays the lived experiences of generations of Lebanese from the 1950s until today. Through the film, the viewer follows fictional and real characters from a range of mixed media sourced from documentary and fiction films, journalistic archives, TV and pop culture, photography and home videos. The film’s rhythm mirrors Lebanon’s oscillation between moments of war and moments of calm throughout this given period.
Featuring the stories, anecdotes, songs, art, and culture of the people who remained in Lebanon through these years, we begin to see and understand this society’s collective memory, dynamics, and psyche. Rather than recounting a more traditional history, the film attempts to portray an emotional ethnography of the Lebanese people in a country unable to agree on its own past, present or future. The film’s focus is not on a deep nostalgia for the past or the promise of any answers—instead, it lingers on the questions raised about life in these challenging times and how it affects our experience of the present.