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In a valley veiled by fog and tribal codes, two sisters walk into the night not as daughters, but as offerings, where blood, memory and silence attempt to keep the fire from spreading.
In the quiet fog of the Bekaa Valley, someone sets fire to a truck, and with it a spark of trouble spreads through a tightly woven community. Gamra is gone—maybe hiding, maybe running—and her cousin Yaser takes to the roads to find her. The deeper he looks, the more he runs into ghosts, old grudges and the slow, burning logic of revenge. Back home, his sisters, Jawaher and Reem, are chosen to make things right. They are not asked, they are offered. One is calm, the other resisting, but both know how quickly girls can be traded for peace. The days pass. Wood is cut. Wool is washed. Eyes are cast downward. And yet everything shifts beneath the surface: a secret song, a nervous goodbye, a lipstick smudge in the dark. This is a story about what happens in the quiet, between fields, behind curtains, inside vans. It is about women who carry too much, men who speak in codes and a land that holds its breath, waiting for something to end…or begin.

Credits

Director
Rakan Mayasi
Screenwriter
Rakan Mayasi, co-written with Wahid Ajmi
Producer
Jennifer Ritter, Rakan Mayasi
Production Company
Atata, Rakan Mayasi

About the Director

Rakan Mayasi
Rakan Mayasi is an independent filmmaker from Palestine (diaspora), born in Germany and based between Brussels and Beirut. He studied cinema, theatre and psychology in Lebanon before receiving film training with Abbas Kiarostami at the Asian Film Academy in South Korea, and holds an MA in Filmmaking from LUCA School of Arts in Belgium. He has written, directed and produced several short films. His

Producers

Jennifer Ritter

Born in Germany and raised in Belgium in a multilingual environment, I have always been keen to explore different cultures and countries. After one year of school exchange in Argentina, I decided to study German and Arabic Literature in Brussels. This background brought me to Syria, where I worked in the Tourism industry for two years. Back to Belgium in 2010, I completed a Master’s degree in Cooperation and development studies and started working in the Cinema Industry for the Euromed Audiovisual Programme of the European Commission and carried on the cinema path joining the team of a Belgian production company for more than nine years. Seeking for freedom and new challenges, I founded my own production company, Atata, in 2023. Since then I have been developing a few film projects.

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