DAAD Grant Holder Eliane Raheb is our guest

The Lebanese filmmaker Eliane Raheb (*1972) is currently the guest of the DAAD's Berlin artist-in-residence program. Her documentaries - in which she always involves herself - are outright political, investigative and intrepid. SUICIDE (2003) is about Lebanese volunteers who fought in Iraq for Saddam Hussein's regime. SO NEAR YET SO FAR (2002) visits children in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt who dream about fighting actively for the Palestinian Intifada. In SLEEPLESS NIGHTS (2012), Raheb - in a climate of state-ordered collective forgetting - brings together the perpetrators and victims of Lebanon's civil war: a secret services officer of the Christian militia who has openly admitted his guilt, and the mother of a communist fighter who disappeared in 1982 at the age of 15, who is unflustered as she makes public her pain. (bik) (20. & 22.4.)