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Karina Dandashi’s Barzakh was selected for InFocus: Arab Cinema in NFMLA’s December 2020 edition. Alex’s āh was selected for the Middle Eastern Cinema programme in that same edition.
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12 December 2020 · Another programme in the same edition · NFMLA · December 2020 programme
Karina Dandashi’s Barzakh was selected for InFocus: Arab Cinema in NFMLA’s December 2020 edition. Alex’s āh was selected for the Middle Eastern Cinema programme in that same edition.
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2023 · Writing fellowship grant · Film Independent
Film Independent announced Dandashi as the recipient of the MPAC Hollywood Bureau Writing Fellowship Grant for her feature script Out of Water.
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Karina Dandashi is a Syrian American filmmaker. Her films explore family bonds, grief, sexuality and identity within the Arab American diaspora. Her short Cousins was released by The New Yorker, and Baba I’m Fine premiered at SXSW in 2025.
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Screenwriting lab · 2023
Dandashi was one of eight writers selected for the 2023 lab, developing Out of Water with story and career mentorship.
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2021 · Karina Dandashi
Selected for the 2021 fellowship supporting emerging filmmakers.
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