On Her Shoulders (2018)

Directed by

Alexandria Bombach

Genre

documentary film, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows Nadia Murad, a Yazidi human rights activist, as she travels to meet politicians and journalists. She works to bring attention to the massacres and kidnappings ISIS carried out in her homeland.

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What happens

On Her Shoulders is a 2018 American documentary film. It was directed by Alexandria Bombach and produced by Hayley Pappas, Brock Williams and Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown under the banner of RYOT Films. The film follows Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad on her three-month tour of Berlin, New York, and Canada, as she met with politicians and journalists to alert the world to the massacres and kidnapping happening in her native land. In 2014, at the age of 19, Murad had been kidnapped with hundreds of other women and girls by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and held as a sex slave; she managed to escape. Also appearing in the film are Barack Obama, Ban Ki-moon, Murad Ismael, Simone Monasebian, Michelle Rempel, Borys Wrzesnewskyj, Ahmed Khudida Burjus, Amal Clooney, and Luis Moreno Ocampo. The film was released on 20 January 2018 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Documentary Directing Award and the Grand Jury Prize. It received positive critical reviews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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