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

Iconoclastic Palestinian filmmaker Rakan Mayasi’s debut diagnostic “Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep” made a splash successful this year’s Un Certain Regard successful Cannes with its powerful, poetic attraction of a Bedouin assemblage successful Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. This week it plays successful a contention slot astatine the El Gouna Film Festival, wherever Variety spoke to the […]