A Woman's Story (2015)
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Country:
Canada
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Duration:
52 min
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Genre:
history
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Director:
Azra Rashid
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Producer:
Azra Rashid
About film
A film about genocide, survival, physical and cultural succession told through the eyes of three women. The film places them at the center of the narrative, telling about their astounding will for survival.
Rewards and nominations
- Athens Ethnographic Film Festival 2016 (Greece) — Official Selection
- Belgrades Ethnological International Film Festival 2016 (Serbia) — Official Selection
- Cambodia IFF 2016 — Official Selection
- China Women's FF 2016 — Official Selection
- WorldFest Houston 2016 (USA) — Official Selection
Director
Canadian director, screenwriter, and a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Rashid creates essay films that are focused on gender representation in the existing discourses on genocide. Her doctoral work was funded by Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Rashid's film Dishonour Defied tells about forced marriages in Pakistan. In 2015 she released her film A Woman’s Story, which tells about survival, physical and cultural succession as seen by three women, who have lived throughthree different genocides of the 20th century.
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Director
Canadian director, screenwriter, and a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Rashid creates essay films that are focused on gender representation in the existing discourses on genocide. Her doctoral work was funded by Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Rashid's film Dishonour Defied tells about forced marriages in Pakistan. In 2015 she released her film A Woman’s Story, which tells about survival, physical and cultural succession as seen by three women, who have lived throughthree different genocides of the 20th century.
