Life is Cinema

Hey there, I'm Razan, an award-winning filmmaker, psychology researcher, and offer a transformative approach to dealing with life challenges. My journey as a refugee traveler adds to my work a certain depth of cultural insights and empathetic touch.
 
After graduating from the Dutch Film Academy - Directing Documentary department, I followed some courses on creative therapy, mindfulness and I have developed the Life is Cinema method on healing and transforming using film as a tool and mindfulness as a practice. 

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I love films that allow us to dig deeper in a feeling that otherwise we are afraid to feel.

Idris Elhassan is a Sudanese-Dutch researcher, artist, and activist based in Amsterdam, working at the intersection of decolonial critique, multidisciplinary art, and policy advocacy. Rooted in personal and collective histories of displacement, his practice interrogates systemic violence through film, participatory projects, and textual interventions.
Trained in engineering and business (MBA), Elhassan employs an analytical lens to dismantle dominant narratives, while his artistic research embraces fragmentation, refusal, and collaborative experimentation as methodological resistance.

I am an educational psychologist who has been working in Syria for 20 years as an educational consultant and cognitive behavioral therapist. Over the past 6 years, I have supported newcomers with the challenges, difficulties, and disorders they face for various reasons, particularly those related to asylum.
I provide support to parents in their relationships with their adolescent children in particular.
I work with people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, mild to moderate depression, and issues related to assertiveness in order to foster psychological resilience.

As a facilitator with an academic background in transpersonal psychology and mindfulness-based approaches, I’ve been holding space for psychological and spiritual transformation for over a decade. I’ve trained as a mindfulness teacher, and I aspire to apply these teachings to all areas of life.

Cinema and music have always been a huge part of my life, and for me are the most accessible ways of guiding us to what is true, good and beautiful. I love films that show the bravery of people who are willing to face life’s challenges, and inspires us to live our own authentic path with an open mind and heart.