DO YOU LOVE ME interweaves past and present in a quest to embrace 70 years of Lebanon’s audiovisual history and better understand its current state. Focusing on the use of archives, the film is a subjective odyssey through the images and representations that have accumulated over the years to form the memory of Beirut – a fragmented memory, at once historical, social, cultural and political.
Aug 2025
Enad, a sixty-year-old Syrian refugee living in Lebanon, decides to resist fate and stand up against injustice. He embarks on a quest to find land to bury Syrians in the Bekaa. He is helped in his mission by Sobhie, a forty-year-old Lebanese woman and daughter of a clan sheikh, who one day opened her son’s grave to bury a Syrian child whose family could not find a burial site. Enad does all he can to achieve his goal, while his children try to escape by sea.
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