{
  "id": 15751596,
  "title": "Palestinian Filmmaker Rakan Mayasi on His Search for Unconventional Stories and Portraying ‘Communities That Have Not Been on Film Before’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/palestinian-filmmaker-rakan-mayasi-on-his-search-for-unconventional",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-20T13:31:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/global/rakan-mayasi-yesterday-the-eye-didnt-sleep-1236917359/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Iconoclastic Palestinian filmmaker Rakan Mayasi’s debut feature “Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep” made a splash in this year’s Un Certain Regard in Cannes with its powerful, poetic treatment of a Bedouin community in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. This week it plays in a competition slot at the El Gouna Film Festival, where Variety spoke to the […]",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}