Biography
Born in 1979 in Lebanon, Rania Rafei has a diploma in audio visual and cinema studies from the Lebanese academy of fine arts (ALBA).she wrote and directed short movies "Harissa Texas" in 2004, "The dish" and "Manchette" in 2005. She made four videos "Smoking kills", "Minimum precautions", "The four seasons: summer 2006" and "Brain cells" in 2006-2007. She exposed an installation "Pleurnication" in the exposition "Bordure, brodure" with the Parisian "Programme de la Seine" in 2005, and in 2006, she exposed an interactive multimedia installation "The light traveler" in France in the "Arborescence" Festival.
She directed a documentary for Al Jazira kids in 2008.
Since 2005 she has been directing documentaries, awareness spots and music videos about the subject of disability, commissioned by the Special Rapporteur on Disability in the UN.
Filmography
- Clouds
A 20' documentary absout street children in Cairo, part of a UNICEF project on expression through art (theatre, music, painting etc...) 2008
- The snake hunter
A 26’ documentary about a 15 year old boy who hunts snakes for a living 2008 – 26 min
- Brain cells
A video about the "image shock" in media 2007 – 13 min.
Funded by "Achkal Alwan" art association.
- The four seasons: summer 2006
A video about the war of July 2006 in Lebanon - 8 min.
Funded by "Achkal Alwan" art association.
- The light traveler
An interactive multimedia video installation about plastic surgery, exposed in Aix en Provence France, in Arborescence multimedia festival 2006.
- Smoking kills
A video about the war of July 2006 in Lebanon - 30 sec.
- Minimum precautions
A video about the war of July 2006 in Lebanon - 7 min.
- Difference is normal
- A music video about equalization of opportunities for people with disability 2006 – 3min.
- 5 short documentaries, 5 TV spots and 3 short animations about disability in the Arab world 2006.
- Commissioned by the special rapporteur on disability in the United Nations
- War breeds disability
- A music video about victims of war in the Arab world 2007- 4 min
- A documentary about landmine victims in Yemen
- A documentary about cluster bomb victims in Lebanon after the July 2006 war.
- An awareness spot about arm trade "war is not a ride to the supermarket"
- An awareness spot about Lebanese, Iraqi and Palestinian kids describing what they felt during the different wars they lived
- Children cancer center
- A spot about the children cancer center in Yemen
- Pleurnication
A video installation about loneliness of people in big cities 2005.
Exposed in "the Lebanese academy of fine arts" in an exposition under the theme "borders" in collaboration with the Parisian "programme de la Seine"
- The dish
A short movie about globalization 2005 – 23 min.
Winner of the best movie in many film festivals.
- Manchette
A short movie (stop motion) about peace 2005 – 8 min.
- Cinema needs your silence
A cultural awareness campaign (animation) 2005 – 30 sec.
- Harissa Texas
A short movie about fear of religion 2004 – 8 min.