Urmila - for freedom
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Urmila - for freedom |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Susan Gluth |
| script | Susan Gluth, Silke C. Schultz, Kristl Filippi |
| production | Susan Gluth, Martin Hagemann |
| music | Christian Conrad , Dominic Miller , Hagay Sofer |
| camera | Susan Gluth |
| cut | Xavier Box, Susan Gluth |
Urmila - für die Freiheit is a German documentary film by Susan Gluth from 2016. It is about the struggle of the human rights activist Urmila Chaudhary against child slavery in Nepal . The cinema release in Germany was on May 26, 2016.
content
Urmila Chaudhary from southern Nepal was sold to the capital by her parents as Kamalari , a household slave , when she was six . They were only released after twelve years. The film then follows Urmila for five years as she campaigns against the tradition of slavery and for schooling at home and abroad, alternating between politics and her own life. She wants to become a lawyer but is also confronted with her parents who led her into slavery themselves.
criticism
The reviewers of the German Film and Media Evaluation praised the film and attested it a touching and emotionally profound truthfulness:
“Urmila Chaudhary is an impressive protagonist who one likes to follow on her way. Susan Gluth accompanies them, does not ask any direct questions and does not comment. Urmila is never shown, the trauma of her memories is palpable, but is never exhibited. In addition, the film always succeeds in creating unique, honest moments in which all the despair about what has been experienced and all the hope for a better future are combined in one picture. […] Urmila - for freedom is a haunting and masterfully staged portrait of a strong, admirable, young woman. "
Awards and festivals
Urmila - for freedom made it into the preselection for the German Film Prize 2016 and was premiered on February 15, 2016 during the Berlinale 2016 in the Lola at Berlinale series. The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) gave the film the rating of "particularly valuable". Under the title Urmila: My Memory Is My Power , the film was shown at the largest North American documentary film festival, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto .
Web links
- Urmila - for freedom in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Urmila - for freedom at filmportal.de
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ FBW press release on the predicate "particularly valuable"
- ↑ German Film Prize 2016, preselection ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) - Urmila - for freedom
- ↑ Hot Docs - Urmila: My Memory Is My Power
