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Free Arabs produced 160 short films, all of which were made by young filmmakers from seven countries that took part in the Arab Spring. Together with producer Nizar Hassan, who produced Sleepless Nights, Raheb founded Free Arabs (2011-2012), an international multimedia documentary film project. " Ayam Bayrut al-sinim'iya" considered her touring Arab Film Week among her association's most effective cultural initiatives. Raheb has also been the artistic director of the Beirut Cinema Days film festival for six editions. Viola Shafik, author of Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity, referred to Raheb's association Beirut DC as a "backbone of Lebanese alternative film art". In 1999, she founded Beirut DC, a cultural association that supports and promotes the work of independent filmmakers in Lebanon through co-production and screenings. Raheb also supports the Lebanese film community by teaching filmmaking at the Saint Joseph University in Beirut and being active in Lebanese cultural organizations.
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Raheb said, "I wanted to give the land a political, not only geographical, meaning". Her latest documentary Those Who Remain, which was screened at more than 20 festivals, is about a 60-year old Christian farmer living in North Lebanon who is struggling to stay in his land amid sectarian tensions. And yet it is even harder to find a film that treats this topic better than Sleepless Nights." Those Who Remain Jay Weissberg, writing for Variety, said, "It's hard to find a Lebanese film that doesn’t focus on the bloody civil war. However, the film was acclaimed and screened on various platforms, such as the Al Jazeera Documentary Channel and Al Jadeed. Future Television criticized Sleepless Nights, calling it a "failure" for having less than 700 views within one week of its release. Instead, the film was screened in three Lebanese theatres through individual efforts on behalf of Raheb and her supporters. When Sleepless Nights was released, it had trouble getting large-scale distribution in Lebanon due to its documentarian nature. Through her research and interview with him, Eliane covered the two conflicting narratives that are present in the film. Raheb devised Sleepless Nights after taking an interest in Chaftari's story. To that end, Sleepless Nights depicts the lives of Assaad Chaftari, an ex-intelligence officer and a high-ranking member of a right-wing militia, who killed many people and Maryam Saiidi, whose son went missing in 1982. In her 2012 documentary Sleepless Nights, Raheb explores the amnesty law that was granted to people who committed political crimes during the war and its effects on the victims and the perpetrators of these crimes. This Is Lebanon was broadcast internationally on television by ARTE, ZDF, and Al Jadeed. The film follows the resistance against the establishment and the patriarchal family structure, which Raheb says are partly to blame for the political and religious sectarianism in Lebanon. With her 2008 documentary This Is Lebanon, Raheb documented the re-emergence of violence in Lebanon. Suicide (2003) documents the Lebanese response to the American invasion of Iraq, depicting intelligence agencies involved and those in Lebanon who accepted Iraqi propaganda and joined the fight. Raheb directed the 2002 documentary So Near Yet So Far, which is about the February 6 Intifada that squashed the hopes of visiting neighbouring countries for children living in Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan. Raheb's directorial debut was her 1995 short film The Last Screening, which revolves around the relationship between a girl and her grandfather's theatre. Raheb then moved from theatre to film, studying at IESAV in Beirut. Alongside acting, she began to write and direct theatre. She began acting in theatre, working with Roger Assaf. She said her family often took refuge in her grandfather's theatre during the war and would watch films there. Raheb's grandfather owned a theatre in Zahlé that sparked her interest in film. I will never forget the days of social harmony, when everyone would help the other." She was 19 when the war ended. Despite that, we prevailed: we went to school and carried on with our lives. We lived through hard and painful moments. In a 2014 interview, Raheb described her youth during the war: "I remember moving from one place to the next in search of shelter, like everyone else at the time. Eliane Raheb was born in 1972 in Lebanon, where she spent most of her youth during the Lebanese Civil War.