Lina Alabed – Filmmaker

Lina Alabed is a Palestinian filmmaker born in Damascus 1980. She graduate from
the Faculty of Journalism at Damascus University with a documentary about the
Syrian author Mohamed Al-Maghout, which was broadcasted on Aljazeera channel
in 2007.

She went then into a cooperative work with Danish directors on a documentary
about Palestinian Refugees between Europe and Middle East in 2009.

Her first short doc was entitled "Noor Alhuda", which was granted the DOX-BOX
Jury Award as Best Syrian film in 2010. It was broadcasted on Al-Arabiya TV.

Lina is a producer and the director for her feature documentary films "Damascus
my first kiss" about women sexual awareness in Damascus. This documentary was
produced by ‘Sak A Do’ and broadcasted at Arte T.V. in 2013.

“A Dream of Powerful Monster” is a short documentary by Bidayyat Productions

that tells about the nightmares of Syrian refugee children living in a Palestinian
Camp in Beirut. It was awarded the Arab Short Film Festival Beirut Jury Prize as
the best short film in 2014 and it was broadcasted on BBC.

Lina was part of the " Stories Untold" workshop with the Danish Film School to
develop output skills for female filmmakers from the Arab world to be a tutor. For
supervise non-professional women to make short films that express their
individuality in their societies. She participated in many video workshops for
women in different camps and places between Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia and
Jordan.

Her first feature film “Ibrahim, a fate to define” is a documentary about

reconciliation with the emptiness she grew up with since the disappearance of her
father 34 years ago. The documentary has screened in different festivals: TIFF,
CPH:DOX, IDFA. The film won several awards, most recently The Jury Prize for
Jerusalem Arab film festival 2021.
The film was broadcasted on Netflix 2021.

Lina was part of MOUATHEQAT/WOMEN IN DOX 2021.

Short Bio:
Lina Alabed

A Palestinian Filmmaker born in 1980 and a graduate from the Faculty of

Journalism at Damascus University. Her graduation project was a documentary
about the Syrian author Mohamed Al-Maghout, broadcasted on Al-jazeera
channel in 2007. Her first short documentary “Noor Alhuda” was produced by Al-
Arabiya channel and awarded the DOX-BOX Jury Prize as the best
Syrian documentary film in 2010.

She produced and directed her feature documentary film “Damascus, My First
Kiss”, which premiered in Doc Leipzig, and was broadcast on Arte in 2013. Her
second short film “A Dream of Powerful Monsters” was awarded the
best documentary film at the Arab Short Festival in Beirut 2014, and was
broadcast on BBC.

Her first feature film “Ibrahim, a fate to define” was produced by ‘Sak A Do’
premiered on TIFF, CPH:DOX, IDFA. The film won several awards, most recently
the Jury Prize for Jerusalem Arab film festival 2021 and was broadcasted on
Netflix 2021.