Experiencing Interruptions?

Here I am ... Here you are

Two men. Two realities. And a quest for a common future in a world beset with real and imaginary boundaries.

  • Raed Rafei
    Director
  • Raed Rafei
    Writer
  • Irit Neidhardt
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 8 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 1, 2017
  • Country of Origin:
    Lebanon
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy, Lebanon
  • Language:
    Arabic, French, Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Beirut Cinema Days
    Beirut
    Lebanon
    March 19, 2017
    World Premiere
  • San Francisco Arab Film Festival
    San Francisco
    United States
    October 14, 2017
    World Premiere
  • Rotterdam Arab Film Festival
    Rotterdam
    United States
    October 14, 2017
  • The 13th Xposed Queer International Film Festival
    Berlin
    Germany
    May 25, 2018
Distribution Information
  • mec films
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Raed Rafei

Raed Rafei is a Lebanese filmmaker, writer and multimedia journalist. For over ten years, he was a reporter for national and international publications covering political, social and economic issues in the Middle East. He also worked as a researcher, producer and director on many TV news reports and documentaries for channels like Al-Jazeera, CNN and ARTE. Since 2011, Rafei has been making independent hybrid films. He made two feature films: 74 (The Reconstitution of a Struggle) (2012) (co-directed with Rania Rafei), and Here I am ... Here you are(2016); and two short films: Prologue (2011) and Salam (2017). His films have screened at international film festivals and received several prizes. Rafei is currently based in California where he is pursuing a PhD in Film and Digital Media at the University of California in Santa Cruz.

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