Negine Jasmine Sekandari

Negine Jasmine Sekandari is a filmmaker, photographer, and writer based in Los Angeles. Her ancestral roots in Afghanistan inspire her work as a storyteller to integrate themes of humor, community, beauty, and romanticism into the work she creates. Recently, she’s been flirting more and more with the world of acting and comedy. She follows the idea of Abbas Kiarostami, who described art-making as a responsibility, as analyzing individual human experience, and as a way to find oneself within that subjectivity.

Works showcased at MENA:

Fariha
Documentary
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Short
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5
 mins
A film showcasing the complex, joyful, humorous, emotional, and deeply intelligent side of Afghan people; qualities that are too often overlooked by the shadow of violence, war, and oppression.