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Oct 18, 2018 · The opening scene echoes throughout “On Her Shoulders.” In it, Nadia Murad is nearly besieged by a mob of admirers, scores of whom have their cellphone cameras held high to capture her...
- Ken Jaworowski
- Alexandria Bombach
In the opening scene of On Her Shoulders, Murad is seen receiving the admiration of a pressing crowd of men and women who are immensely appreciative of her telling her own and their stories and advocating for justice for the Yazidis.
Dec 6, 2018 · On Her Shoulders: Directed by Alexandria Bombach. With Nadia Murad, Murad Ismael, Simone Monasebian, Michelle Rempel. Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS.
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- Documentary, Biography
- Alexandria Bombach
- 2018-12-06
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Subsequently, she’s placed alone in the frame for a sit-down interview with director Alexandria Bombach. Juxtaposed with a news clipping of Nadia hiding her face when she first spoke to the press after escaping from Iraq, where she was kidnapped by ISIS, this image of her facing the camera is alone powerful in expressing her fight for human rights....
Maybe for the first time on camera, Nadia is able to be upfront about how she feels about this exhausting circuit of queries – as important as they may be, please stop asking her these repetitive, exclusive questions and let’s instead discuss what’s happening to the other women and what must be done to protect the Yazidi people. City of Ghosts dire...
At the time of filming, Murad has worked with Nadia for at least ten months and is also interviewed for this documentary. Speaking in regard of Nadia’s intended return to the village when “things get better”, he gloomily comments that the reality will not present a positive culture – it will be one with only widows and orphans. Murad admits to bein...
Inherently, a documentary on Nadia Murad will be powerful. You don’t even need to see On Her Shoulders to realise this – just need to know details that can be easily found on the web – but the way Alexandria Bombach frames Nadia’s story makes this documentary an imperative text about this global narrative that the general media hasn’t afforded her,...
Synopsis. After surviving the 2014 genocide of the Yazidis in Northern Iraq and escaping sexual slavery at the hands of ISIS, 23-year-old Nadia Murad gave a testimony before the U.N. Security Council that was heard around the world. Nadia suddenly became the face of the Yazidis - a historically persecuted and voiceless religious minority.
Oct 19, 2018 · Her title carries as much tragedy as honor: Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. As Murad makes clear in her three minutes, there is no dignity without justice. There is only one border, she tells the presidents and prime ministers, “the border of humanity.”. We see this movie to learn who the young Nobel ...
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 ...
