Three Days and a Third

Director: Rakan Mayasi
Feature | Hybrid | BE, PS, LBN, QA, KSA | Post-Production

Synopsis:
In a valley veiled by fog and tribal codes, two sisters walk into the night not as daughters, but as offerings — where blood, memory, and silence attempt to keep the fire from spreading.

Rakan Mayasi

Rakan Mayasi is a Palestinian filmmaker born in Germany, based between Brussels and Beirut. He studied Cinema, Theatre, and Psychology in Lebanon, trained with Abbas Kiarostami in South Korea, and holds an MA in Filmmaking from LUCA School of Arts in Belgium. His shorts include ROUBAMA (Locarno 2012), BONBONÉ (TIFF 2017, Netflix), and TRUMPETS IN THE SKY (TIFF 2021, France 3). He trained with Béla Tarr in Budapest and premiered his political fantasy THE KEY at SXSW 2023 (Canal+). His debut feature—shot in the Bekaa Valley with non-actors — a hybrid fiction-nonfiction follows a family’s search for a missing girl. His second feature script, THE PASSPORT, was selected for La Fabrique at Cannes 2025.

The Story of the Mountain

Director: Shayma' Awawdeh
Feature | Hybrid | PS, FR | Development

Synopsis:
In Hebron, occupied Palestine, I film children in an animation workshop imagining a magical mountain that turns into a giant grandmother who can fulfill their dream of destroying the checkpoint at their neighborhood’s entrance.

Shayma' Awawdeh

Shayma' Awawdeh is a Palestinian filmmaker whose work explores themes of memory and childhood under occupation. A graduate in filmmaking, she has directed three short films: 4th Floor 2019, This Home Is Ours 2024, and Intersecting Memory 2025. She has also worked in the camera department on several films and has led filmmaking workshops for children, using cinema as a tool for creative expression.