Sukoun

Jordan | 2024 | 19 min | Narrative Hind is a young karate athlete. One day, after she is subjected to abusive behaviour at her training centre, the world of the hard of hearing girl becomes distorted. Determined, Hind looks for a way to reclaim her power. A film by Dina Naser Dina Naser is a Jordanian filmmaker and producer of Palestinian origin. A graduate in Graphic Arts in Jordan, her documentary training was expanded as part of the Erasmus DocNomads programme in Lisbon, Budapest and Brussels. After finishing her studies, she worked for different television production companies. She has produced the Hikayat Simsim seriesan Arabic version of Sesame Street. Afterwards, she began to produce and direct her first films independently, drawing inspiration from Palestinian refugees in Jordan. She made the documentary short films Shamieh (2011), One Minute (2015) and Sea Wash (2016). In 2019, she made her first feature film, Tiny Souls, in which she films a group of Syrian boys and girls living in a refugee camp in Jordan for nine years. Her work focuses on documenting common stories that we discover as unusual as the documentary progresses. The themes that she deals with are often related to her homeland, Palestine, being a speaker for many refugees in Jordan and tenderly approaching the different communities and the diversity of human ecosystems. Dina Naser lives and works in Amman, Jordan.