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 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.