Shadows will be screened at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival as part of the "Animated Shorts" segment.

Director Rand Beiruty presents her film Shadows at the 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival in the segment "Animation Shorts,", discussing themes of resilience, sacrifice, and womanhood, and how her film brings these important stories to light.

Find more details about the festival and the 2025 program here.

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.

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