This year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival will showcase 15 timely and provocative documentary and narrative works, screening June 14 to 21, 2018 in New York City.
On Her Shoulders
On Her Shoulders
NAME OF FILM: ON HER SHOULDERS
DIRECTOR(S): Alexandria Bombach
STARRING: Nadia Murad, Murad Ismael, Simone Monasebian
GENRE: Documentary Film
SYNOPSIS: Nadia Murad is a 23-year-old Yazidi survivor of genocide and sexual slavery by ISIS. Repeating her horrific story to politicians, the media, and the United Nations, she must navigate bureaucracy, politics and sudden fame to get the world to listen.
