Rand Beiruty is a writer, director, and producer. She holds a practice-based Ph.D. revolving around questions of representation and participatory filmmaking from the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. She has pitched her projects on international platforms and received awards from, among others, the Tribeca Film Institute, Mifa Animation du Monde, the Arab Cinema Center, and the European Network of Young Cinema. Her debut feature documentary Tell Them About Us celebrated its world premiere at CPH:DOX 2024 while her short animated documentary Shadows had its world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival.

In Los Angeles, Rand Beiruty will be working on her film project Portrait of A, in which she mixes documentary and fictional presentation. The film gives an insight into the life of a young Roma immigrant and mother of two in East Germany. It shows the multilayered roles of motherhood and womanhood and deals with themes such as self-determination and freedom in a seemingly predetermined life.

Selected Filmography
2024 | Shadows, short animated documentary (screenplay, director & co-producer)
2024 | Tell Them About Us, documentary (screenplay, director & co-producer)
2020 | Encountering Samir, short animation (screenplay & director)
2018 | Nudar, short documentary (screenplay, director & producer)
2017 | Halfway, short animated documentary (screenplay, director & producer)

Selected Awards
2024 | Best European Feature Documentary for Young Audience, 64th Zlín International Film Festival
2021 | Haus am See Scholarship
2020 | Best Pitch, Reception of German Film Schools
2020 | Arab Cinema Award, Cairo Film Connection
2017 | Winner of Tribeca Film Institute – If/Then Competition, CPH:DOX
2016 | European Short Pitch (ESP) Jury Prize, International Script Pitch, Interfilm Berlin