Dina is a Jordanian/Palestinian director and
producer. In 2013, Dina received the Docnomads
scholarship for a Master’s Degree in Documentary
Filmmaking. She began shooting her debut feature
documentary ‘Tiny Souls’ in 2012, and over the
course of five years Dina filmed the lives of children
as they unfolded inside Zaatari Refugee Camp-
Jordan.
‘Tiny Souls’ premiered in 2019 in CPH Dox, and was
well-received internationally, such as Sheffield Doc
Fest, IDFA, DOK Leipzig and Busan. The film was
awarded the Human Rights Film Award at Dokufest
and the Sunbird Award for Best Documentary
Feature at the Palestine Film Festival, amongst other awards. Dina also directed the
award-winning short film ‘One Minute’ (2015), a sound-motivated piece about a woman
living in Gaza while under attack in 2014.
In 2017, Dina founded a multi- media production company, Madd Moshawash, with the
vision of blurring the line between documentary and fiction through creating artistic and
experimental work. In 2019, Dina c o – f o u n d e d ‘Rawiyat’: a new collective of female
filmmakers from the Middle East, North Africa and the diaspora joining forces to imagine
a new landscape in t h e region a n d beyond.