Rana Eid
Panoptic - Rewire Festival
A sonic and visual descent into Beirut’s underground, confronting Lebanon’s war-torn past.
Lebanese filmmaker and sound designer Rana Eid has long worked with sound as a complex and vital component of worldbuilding, documenting, and understanding. Her directorial debut, 2017's Panoptic, charts a journey through her hometown of Beirut's underground in the wake of her father's passing. Combining the personal with the political, as part of a process of Eid mourning her father, the film probes Lebanon's troubled past, seeking to reconcile with the events of its 17-year-long civil war through a sonic testimony of its unique atmospheres and vast auditory sensations.
Arabic spoken, English subtitles.
REWIRE Festival 2025
Rewire is an annual international festival for adventurous music. Across four days from 3 - 6 April 2025, Rewire will return to The Hague with its fourteenth festival edition, bringing together a wide range of musical and interdisciplinary performances, specially commissioned works, club nights, installations, talks, screenings, and of course, films.
For the full program at Filmhuis Den Haag, click here.
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