Raed Rafei
Raed Rafei is a filmmaker, researcher, and multimedia journalist. Rafei directed award-winning documentaries and experimental films. His films 74 (The Reconstitution of a Struggle), Here I am ... Here You are, Salam and Al-Atlal (The Ruins) have screened at international film festivals and venues like the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Doc Lisboa, Visions du Réel, and the Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley.
He is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on queer cinema in the Arab region and its diasporas. As a journalist, he has worked for international publications like The Los Angeles Times and news outlets like CNN and Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel.
His new feature documentary Tripoli / A Tale of Three Cities will have its world premiere at IDFA in November 2024.
For more information, please visit: www.raedrafei.com.
Rania Rafei
Rania Rafei is a Lebanese filmmaker and artist. She directed several TV documentaries covering social and political subjects. She also wrote and directed short fiction films and video essays. Her first feature film 74 The Reconstitution of a Struggle premiered at the FID Marseille International Film Festival (2011) and then was screened in many other film festivals around the world.
She is in the process of making her second feature documentary The Day of Wrath: Tales from Tripoli (expected in 2025).
