Tiny Souls
2019
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Dina Naser
Dina Naser is a Palestinian/Jordanian director and producer. She received the Docnomads scholarship in 2013 to pursue a Masters in Documentary Filmmaking. Her debut feature documentary, Tiny Souls, filmed over five years in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, premiered at CPH:DOX 2019 and was featured at festivals like Sheffield DocFest, IDFA, and DOK Leipzig. The film won multiple awards, including the Human Rights Film Award at Dokufest. Dina also directed the acclaimed short film One Minute about a woman's life in Gaza in the 2014 Israeli attack.
A Thousand Girls Like Me
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When Khatera, a 23-year-old Afghan woman, forces her father to stand trial after a lifetime of sexual abuse, she risks her family, freedom, and personal safety to expose the faulty judicial system that incriminates the very women who seek protection. In this awe-inspiring story of one woman’s battle to make her voice heard, the young Afghani director demonstrates the power of action over fear while she embarks on a mission to set a positive example for her daughter and other girls like her.
Sahra Mosawi-Mani
Sahra Mosawi-Mani is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, university lecturer, and the founder of Afghanistan Documentary House. As of 2001, she has been working on using media as a catalyst for good, and later pursued her master’s in Documentary filmmaking from the University of the Arts London. In her documentaries, Sahra focuses on her own country Afghanistan, highlighting on the lack of democracy and equality.Sahra Mosawi-Mani is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, Lecturer at University and the founder of Afghanistan Documentary House.
Violently in Love
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Christina Rosendahl is the first director ever to be given permission to enter and film the otherwise closed-off women’s shelter. The film, which is built upon recordings from more than five years, gives a close insight into how women, who have been subject to physical and emotional abuse and violence, not only enter a safe space, but also gain the tools to understand themselves and break the behavioral patterns that keep them in a violent relationship.
Christina Rosendahl
Christina Rosendahl graduated from the independent film school Super16 in 2004, yet she had her breakthrough in 2002 with the film STARGAZER – a film about the band Swan Lee. Christinal has always had an interest in children and youth in several of her short films as well as in her feature film debut, TRIPLE DARE. Her feature film THE IDEALIST (2015) focused on the Thule case – a forgotten chapter of Danish history. VIOLENTLY IN LOVE is her fourth documentary film.
Assia Boundaoui
Assia Boundaoui is an Algerian-American filmmaker and journalist. She has reported for BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, VICE, and CNN and received a first place Mark of Excellence award from the Society of Professional Journalists. She directed a short film about hijabi hair salons for the HBO docu-series, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Assia has an MA in Journalism from NYU and is fluent in Arabic. She is a New America National Fellow and a fellow with the Co-Creation Studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab.
Freedom Fields
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Naziha Arebi
Naziha Arebi is a Libyan/British artist and filmmaker who returned to Libya after the revolution to work and explore her father's homeland. Naziha worked as a writer and production manager with BBC Media Action and her short documentaries are now being shown in festivals worldwide. In 2012 she co-founded HuNa Productions, a Tripoli-based production collective, aiming at developing Libyan cinema as a tool for change.