Tiny Souls
+Syria in Focus
Saturday, 9/28
12:25 p.m.
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Tiny Souls
أرواح صغيرة
Dina Naser
Documentary feature
86 mins | 2019
Jordan
Arabic with English subtitles
US premiere
Sponsored by:
Marwa, her mother, and her siblings are stranded in Jordan’s Zaatari refugee camp after escaping war in Syria in 2012. Marwa is nine. Her concerns revolve around school, and her interests around playtime. Four months into camp life, Marwa is beginning to expect that they will stay there only for another week, maybe two. Over the ensuing four years, the director follows Marwaʼs everyday life in the camp, where she blossoms from a child to a young woman. Marwa imagines herself as a “free pigeon,” unrestricted by walls and barbwire. As the years pass, Marwa gets attached to her camp friends and make-shift home, until one day, her elder brother is called for interrogation about his association with militant extremists. Only then does their “settled” life take an immense turn, revealing the uncertainty of their situation.
Festivals and Awards:
CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Festival, Denmark, 2019
DocsBarcelona International Documentary Film Festival, Spain, 2019
Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival, UK, 2019
Dina Naser is a Jordanian filmmaker of Palestinian roots. Following her passion for filmmaking, she was granted a scholarship for DOCNOMADS Mobile Documentary School’s two-year MA programme in Lisbon, Budapest, and Brussels. She worked her way through a variety of television and film productions until she began to direct and produce independently. Her works are inspired by stories from her homeland and by refugee narratives. Tiny Souls is Naser’s first feature-length documentary.
