Join us for an evening of film, conversation, and community as we continue Jameel’s Summer Cinema, in collaboration with The Culturist Film Club, with a screening of Do You Love Me, a love letter to Beirut and a meditation on memory and the will to remember.

DO YOU LOVE ME Lana Daher, 2025, 76 min

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.

“…a meditation on what it means to remember in a country without a shared account of its recent past, where contemporary history is rarely taught, and collective memory remains fragmented and unresolved.” — Sarah Khalil, The New Arab 

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Following the screening, Hind Mezaina will be in conversation with writer and curator Yalda Bidshahari.

Audiences are invited to engage in collective viewing, stay for the conversation, and enjoy refreshments available throughout the evening. Screenings are free to attend. Registration is required.

Curated by Hind Mezaina, founder of The Culturist Film Club.

Yalda Bidshahri is an Iranian writer and curator based in the United Arab Emirates. She creates communal spaces of imagination and freedom through exhibitions, programmes and texts developed in close collaboration with artists and practitioners across disciplines. Her work is shaped by a commitment to practices that challenge systems of oppression and foreground liberating ways of seeing, feeling and being. In 2024, she curated In your dreams at Bayt AlMamzar, Dubai. Her writing has appeared in publications including Frieze, ArtReview Asia, ArtAsiaPacific and Canvas. She holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London.

Hind Mezaina is an artist, film curator and writer from Dubai. Her interests lie in cinema, cities, visual culture, collective memory and archives. As an artist she works primarily in analogue photography and lately with moving image. She has been exhibited locally and internationally, including Art Dubai, Abu Dhabi Art, Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj, Jameel Arts Centre, Nadežda Petrović Art Gallery, London Short Film Festival, Alternative Film/Video, and Safar Film Festival. As a film curator, she has programmed screenings for art institutions in the UAE including Louvre Abu Dhabi, NYUAD Art Gallery, Sharjah Art Foundation, The Africa Institute, and Jameel Arts Centre. She launched The Culturist Film Club in 2022 and hosts screenings at various venues in Dubai. The film club is an offshoot of her blog theculturist.com which she started in 2009 where you can find her writings.  www.hindmezaina.com