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On Her Shoulders (CTBA)

Dir. Alexandria Bombach
2018, 95 mins, USA

Showing Times:

• Sun 17 Feb: 4pm
• Tue 19 Feb: 7.30pm

Twenty-three-year-old Nadia Murad’s life is a dizzying array of exhausting undertakings—from giving testimony before the U.N. to visiting refugee camps to soul-bearing media interviews and one-on-one meetings with top government officials.

With deep compassion and a formal precision and elegance that matches Nadia’s calm and steely demeanor, filmmaker Alexandria Bombach follows this strong-willed young woman, who survived the 2014 genocide of the Yazidis in Northern Iraq and escaped the hands of ISIS to become a relentless beacon of hope for her people, even when at times she longs to lay aside this monumental burden and simply have an ordinary life.

Venue: Exeter Phoenix, Studio 74