About

Rand Abou Fakher is a filmmaker and artist. She began her studies in music as a flutist at the Syrian Conservatory,  broadening her practice in Brussels to audiovisual arts. In 2018 she wrote and directed the short film Braided Love which premiered at Sarajevo Film Festival. Her following short film So We Live premiered at Berlinale Shorts 2020 and went on to be selected in several international festivals. Rand has served as a film festival jury member, mentored in various film workshops, and shared her expertise as a guest speaker at institutions like the Doha Film Institute Short Script Lab and the Marché du Film at the Cannes Film Festival. Since 2021, she has worked as a programmer for the Toronto Arab Film Festival. Her multidisciplinary research project, The Act of Witnessing: Challenging Hierarchies in Crafting the Moving Image, was initiated during a two-year art residency at Beursschouwburg in Brussels. Her feature film, On the Way to Forgive I Forgot Myself, is supported by the Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF) in Belgium and is currently being developed at Torino ScriptLab."

2024 Beursschouwburg Multidisciplinary Installation (End of Residency) - Brussels/Belgium
2019 As a part of 20 years of S.M.A.K. Museum - Gent/Belgium

Premiered in the international competition of Berlinale 70th Edition
Oscars Qualifying Awards Leuven Short Film Festival & Brussels Short Film Festival. Jury Prize London Film Week & Uşak Winged Seahorse Short Fılm Festıval & Gabès Cinéma Fen Festival & Taxco International lm festival & Mentor Arabia & Nordic Youth Film festival & Mercy To Universe international short lm festival

The Criterion Collection Channel - US and Canada

Canvas - Belgium

Tromso international Film festival - Norway

Guanajuato Int’l Film Festival - Mexico

PyeongChang Int’l Peace Film Festival - South Korea

Festival du Film franco-arabe Noisy-le-sec - France

Friss Huss Budapest - Hungary

Karama Human Rights Film Festival - Jordan

Karama Human Rights Film Festival - Lebanon

Sundsvall Film Festival - Sweden

Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg - Germany

Toronto Arab Film Festival - Canada

World Cinema Amsterdam - Netherlands

Festival du Film Court de Villeurbanne - France

Cinemamed festival - Belgium

Bogotá International Independent Film Fair - Colombia

Beirut Cinema Days - Lebanon

Aflam Festival - France

Bahrain Film Festival - Bahrain

Saaed Meetings - Morocco

Tromso international Film festival - Norway

Mercy To Universe International Short Film Festival - Turkey