We are honoured to return for our second consecutive year collaborating with Flatpack Festival during their landmark 20th edition! For this new and exciting partnership, we will be screening Do You Love Me, Lana Daher’s first feature and a journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, a film composed entirely of archival footage.

Before the screening, we invite you to share your own memories and dream about new narratives in a drop-in collective collage workshop led by the brilliant artist Sharonjit Kaur Sutton. We will piece together Brum and Beirut.

The Workshop :: Add your voice to a collective collage as we map the connection between Birmingham and Beirut. Bring your Brummie love notes: copies of old pictures, magazines, newspaper cuttings, or leaflets. We will piece them together like the clips in the film.

Note: Don’t bring anything too precious (unless it’s a copy) as it’ll be glued down! We’ll also have plenty of bits and bobs to inspire you.

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.