SUKOUN (Amplified)

Country: Jordan, Egypt, Palestine | Running Time: 19 minutes | Year: 2024

Synopsis

Amplified is the story of Hind, a charming young Karate athlete with a hearing disability. After she’s subjected to a violating incident at the Karate center, Hind’s world gets distorted. The sensual narrative, accompanied by an authentic sonic experience, dives into what happens when safe spaces are shattered in the ugliest of ways. Through the eyes and ears of Hind, we sway between the tenderness and harshness of pain, the silence and the noise, and the hidden and the manifest.


Director : Dina Naser

The Jordanian-Palestinian director and producer studied documentary film directing on the DocNomads master’s degree programme in Portugal, Hungary and Belgium. Her first feature-length documentary, Tiny Souls, was filmed over the course of five years spent following the everyday lives of children in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. The film premiered at the international CPH:DOX festival in Copenhagen and went on to screen at Sheffield Doc Fest, the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam, DOK Leipzig and Busan