Born in 1979 in Lebanon, Rania Rafei has a diploma in audiovisual 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. In 2010 she made a documentary about love "notes on love in Copenhagen". 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. As well she directed several documentaries for Al Jazeera about street kids, snake hunters, portraits of several artists in the Arab world and the history of student movement in Lebanon and Yemen.


1974 is a film about Leftist youth in Lebanon today trying to reenact the student rebellion of 1974. By blending factual elements from the 1974 rebellion and current ideas and positions of politically active Leftist students, the project will execute a series of experimental reconstructions of the different phases that led the students to stage their protest and subsequently occupy the university's campus for 37 days.