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Rakan Mayasi on Taking pictures ‘Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep’ in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley: ‘I Had to Repeat Takes Twice Because of the Sound of an Explosion Over the Dialogue’

Palestinian director Rakan Mayasi is in Cannes together with his first characteristic “Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep,” about two Bedouin sisters named Rim and Jahawer contending with patriarchal rituals in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Shot and not using a script and with a solid of non-professionals, Mayasi’s characteristic debut – that premiered in Un Sure Regard […]