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Lina wanted to become simply a camerawoman. But after the uprising in Syria, it didn’t take long until events escalated, and arrests, torture, and potentially life-threatening situations became a reality for Lina to negotiate as a new norm.
An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Damascus, Syria, Lina starts to report on the events around her until she is compelled to become a war reporter and, later, the unexpected narrator of her own destiny.

Credits

Director
Lina
Screenwriter
Lina
Producer
Diana El Jeiroudi, Orwa Nyrabia, Torstein Grude, Ilja Roomans
Executive Producer
Laura Poitras

About the Director

Lina
Born in Damascus, Lina is a documentary filmmaker, a journalist and a camerawoman, who's been documenting events in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey over the past ten years. She holds a master’s degree in Documentary Filmmaking from Essex University. Lina made short and medium-length documentaries and her debut feature, ‘5 SEASONS OF REVOLUTION" premiers at Sundance World Cinema Documentary Compe

Producers

Diana El Jeiroudi
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