Rana Eid
DirectorRana Eid is a Lebanese filmmaker known for her work as a director and writer. She has directed several impactful documentaries focusing on social and political issues in Lebanon. Some of her notable works include "Panoptic," which explores surveillance in the country, and "If I Close My Eyes," a documentary about incarcerated women. Eid's films have received critical acclaim and have been featured in various film festivals around the world.
Films
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1982
2020 | 100 min | Drama
In 1982, in the idyllic setting of a private school in the Lebanese mountains near Beirut, the students are about to go on summer vacation. But 11-year-old Wissam has other things on his mind than exams - he wants to finally confess his feelings to his classmate Joana. Meanwhile, his teachers Yasmine and Joseph are struggling with their own feelings and the political tensions that have divided them. But outside the protective walls of the school, the situation escalates dramatically when the Israeli ...
Diaries of a Flying Dog
2014 | 75 min | Documentary
Both, as well as Fayad's mother, suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder. The film deals with the use of fear in Lebanese society in educating children, as well as the omnipresence of the (continuous) civil war. By following the director's efforts to reappraise his family history and deal with his fears and phobias and those of his dog, the film reveals a society that systematically adopts fear as an educational approach and produces generations that are forever preparing for war. "Ironically, ...
The Rojava Experiment - A Society On The Move
2019 | 58 min | Documentary
It represents an authentic counter-design to the forces in the Middle Eastern region. At its core are grassroots democratic self-governance, reorganization of the economy and supply in cooperatives, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious concepts, women's and justice centers. However, the democracy experiment not only had to stand up to IS, but still faces powerful enemies - Will Rojava have a future?
Paradies! Paradies!
2016 | 78 min | Documentary
The Kurdish Kurdwin grew up in Austria and takes a critical view of this visit "home". Filming, she tries to find out why her father is euphoric about Kurdistan. In 1991 Kurdwin Ayub fled Iraq with her family to Austria. Almost 25 years later she accompanies her father on a journey to his former home. While he contemplates a returning to live permanently in Iraq, Kurdwin and her cousins feel like strangers in their own homeland. An intimate, sometimes bizarre and sobering portrait of the generation ...
Dreams of the City
1984 | 123 min | Drama
Dib moves with his younger brother and their mother from his home town of Quneitra to Damascus after the death of his father. The children’s grandfather, who was known for his tyranny, reluctantly agrees to shelter the grieving family, and tries to force his daughter to marry again. The magic of the city of Damascus takes over the conscience. Dib, whose main concern has become discovering all the secrets of this city, is driven by his heart full of dreams, but he sees nothing in his life except humiliation ...
Gate #5
2011 | 84 min | Documentary
Through eloquent descriptions of former truck drivers, El Habre presents The Lebanon of the 1960s to the present day. They were once young, thrived on adventure and had choices. In the 1960s and 70s thousands of young Lebanese men left their villages and made a new life in Beirut. Truck driving became a lifestyle, income, money, and a vibrant urban life.
The Dream
1987 | 45 min | Documentary
Interviews with Palestinians living in Lebanese refugee camps, some of it shot in Sabra and Shatila before the massacre. Compiled from interviews with Palestinian refugees from the camps in Sabra, Shatila, Bourj el-Barajneh, Ain al-Hilweh and Rashidieh in Lebanon. While at the camps, Mohamad Malas asks people about their nightly dreams, which always refer to Palestine: a woman recounts her dream of winning the war; a Feda'i resistance fighter dreams of bombings and martyrdom; an old man describes ...
Birds of September
2013 | 99 min | Documentary
People are invited to share a personal moment. It is a thoughtful portrait of some of the city's inhabitants as they sit at the back of the van and express their innermost thoughts. Sarah Francis' documentary BIRDS OF SEPTEMBER is her debut film and was screened at CPH: DOX and the Art of the Real New York. "A portrait of a city and the people who live there, which amazingly enough manages to unite a number of otherwise highly different genres into a unified whole. An original and accomplished ...
If You Die, I'll Kill You
2011 | 91 min | Drama
In IF YOU DIE, I'LL KILL YOU, Kurdish-Iraqi director Hiner Saleem (MY SWEET PEPPER LAND), looks at the Kurdish community in Paris. Siba is played by Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson). Avdal dreams of staying in France and plans to bring his fiancée, Sibato, Paris. She’s due to arrive in the next few days. The two men strike up a friendship when unexpectedly, Avdal dies and Philippe has organize funeral arrangements for his friend. What should he do with the body?
The Return of the Aramean People
2012 | 62 min | Documentary
"Tur Abdin" is what Aramaic Christians call their homeland in southeast Turkey, not far from the Syrian border. One of the earliest Christian settlements in the world, very few live there today. Most Aramaic Christians have fled war, violence and repression. Some even fled to Germany. Now, exiled Arameans from Göppingen want to return to southeastern Turkey to safeguard their cultural heritage and rebuild their destroyed villages. Director Anja Reiß accompanies them back home. "Migration is a constantly ...