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OPENING FILM
Thursday, November 26, 2015 / 7 pm
Maison Heinrich Heine
Cité Universitaire de Paris
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Salma
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Kim Longinotto
Inde
2013 | 00:90:00
When Salma, a young Muslim girl in a south Indian village, was 13
years old, her family locked her up for 25 years, forbidding her to
study and forcing her into marriage. During that time, words were
Salma's salvation. She began covertly composing poems on scraps of
paper and, through an intricate system, was able to sneak them out of
the house, eventually getting them into the hands of a publisher.
Against the odds, Salma became the most famous Tamil poet: the first
step to discovering her own freedom and challenging the traditions and
code of conduct in her village.
As with her other work (Pink Saris, Rough Aunties), master
documentarian Kim Longinotto trains her camera on an iconoclastic
woman. Salma's extraordinary story is one of courage and resilience,
and Longinotto follows her on an eye-opening trip back to her village.
Salma has hopes for a different life for the next generation of girls,
but as she witnesses, familial ties run deep, and change happens very slowly.
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