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Back by Yazan Rabee
NLD 2022, Berlinale Shorts
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Back by Yazan Rabee
NLD 2022, Berlinale Shorts
© Onno van den Dungen
Crew
Director | Yazan Rabee |
Screenplay | Yazan Rabee |
Cinematography | Maarten Kramer |
Editing | Francesco Indaco |
Sound | Zita Leermans |
Assistant Director | Machiel van Hoek |
Producer | Eefje Blankevoort |
Executive Producer | Laura Verduijn |
Co-Producers | Philippe Avendaño Vera, Sacha Gertsik |
Co-Production |
Artillerie Amsterdam De Ontmoeting Amsterdam |
World Sales
Produced by

Derik Lynch, Matthew Thorne, Daria Belova , Valeri Aluskina, Volker Schlecht, Yazan Rabee
The directors of the Berlinale Shorts programme V at the premiere.
Marungka tjalatjunu · Mwanamke Makueni · The Waiting · Back · Berlinale Shorts · Feb 22, 2023

The 2023 Berlinale Shorts directors
8 · Back · Les chenilles · Eeva · From Fish to Moon · Happy Doom · La herida luminosa · It’s a Date · Jill, Uncredited · A Kind of Testament · Marungka tjalatjunu · As miçangas · Mwanamke Makueni · Nuits blanches · Ours · Qin mi · Terra Mater – Mother Land · The Veiled City · The Waiting · Wo de peng you · Berlinale Shorts · Feb 20, 2023
Yazan Rabee

The director was born in Syria and fled to the Netherlands in 2016 with the single goal of becoming a filmmaker. In 2022, he graduated from film school and released two short films: the fiction Beyond the Sun and the documentary Back.
Filmography (short films)
2022 Beyond the Sun · Back
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2023