Dalia Al Kury
Dalia Al Kury (she/her) is an acclaimed film director whose work navigates cross-genre storytelling. Her films explore the resilience and political unconscious of the everyday hero in the Arab World. In addition to her rich practical experience, Dalia is well-grounded in academic study; she holds an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a PhD in artistic research at the Norwegian Film School.
Dalia´s film practice is character driven and pendulums between staging memories and simulating past experiences , to staging dreams and hopeful speculation of our collective futures. Both approaches from staging in documentary to Speculating through fiction- are deeply rooted in pausing the question “what if” to offer another possible narrative. Dalia uses filmmaking not as a way to document reality, but as a way of commanding it, through active and radical imagining of justice and liberation.
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