Palestinian Filmmaker Rakan Mayasi on His Search for Unconventional Stories and Portraying ‘Communities That Have Not Been on Film Before’

Variety - Oct 20, 2026

Iconoclastic Palestinian filmmaker Rakan Mayasi’s debut feature “Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep” made a splash in this year’s Un Certain Regard in Cannes with its powerful, poetic treatment of a Bedouin community in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. This week it plays in a competition slot at the El Gouna Film Festival, where Variety spoke to the […]

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