Dania Bdeir

Born in Montreal, Dania Bdeir is an award-winning Lebanese filmmaker. "In White", her graduate thesis for her MFA at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts received the Spike Lee Production Fund and had its world premiere at Clermont-Ferrand before screening at BFI London, Uppsala, and more than 30 other festivals worldwide. Dania was a 2019 Berlinale Talent and participated in its Short Film Station with "Warsha", her latest short which had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and won the Jury Prize for the Best International Fiction. "Warsha" can be streamed on Netflix and the Criterion Channel and has won 100 awards and has been selected at over 250 film festivals worldwide, including SXSW, Rotterdam, Clermont-Ferrand, Aspen Shortsfest, Palm Springs Shortsfest, and Tampere, among many others. Warsha was one of 15 films that were shortlisted for the 2023 Academy Awards. Dania, one of Screen Daily's Arab Stars of Tomorrow, is developing her first feature film "Pigeon Wars", which received development financing from Telefilm Canada and was selected for the Torino Film Lab x DFI Hezaya Screenwriting Lab, Cine Qua Non Storylines, and the renowned 2023 Sundance Screenwriter's lab. Dania is managed by Anonymous Content.