How does the archive become a space for subjective stories, rather than a singular version of history? Lana Daher’s film Do You Love Me constructs a unique, multisensorial testimony of Lebanon and its capital. Her experimentation with archives transforms the act of looking into the past from a linear process into a constellation of individual stories, creating space not only for the pain that often inhabits the archives, but also the joy and vibrance that resides within them. 

In conversation with editor Qutaiba Barhamji (The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025), Four Daughters (2023)), Lana will explore the creative process through which images, sound and music generate diverse reflections on the past. In their dialogue, the archive emerges not merely as a repository of images, but also a space of intimacy, interpretation, and transformation. How can the creative relationship in the editing room enhance the artistic approach to archives, building a complete sensory trip from these? How is this relationship sustained outside the room, when touched by moments of uncertainty and war? And how can this process turn into a vibrant storytelling act of tenderness, and, at times, resistance?