29/04/2026
Rand Abou-Fakher ( ) takes on the leading role in our latest production, Tender Threads, playing Reema, a new mother navigating postpartum life, caught between exhaustion, love, and the weight of family expectations.
Rand Abou Fakher (b. 1995, Syria) is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist working across fiction and hybrid practices, whose storytelling is held within form rather than explained. Her films construct a cinema of proximity, where intimacy unfolds within fractured temporalities and shifting spatial relations. Her short films Braided Love (2018) and So We Live (2020) premiered at international festivals, including the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale Shorts). The latter received multiple awards. Her debut hybrid feature Why Do I See You in Everything? (2026) premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, marking her first feature-length work as both director and producer. She is currently developing her fiction feature On the Way to Forgive I Forgot Myself, which participated in Torino Film Lab, 2024. She is also active as a film curator and cutter, programming for ALFILM - Arab Film Festival Berlin.
Casting: sabrine.khoury .filmcasting
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