november, 2024
sat02nov4:00 pmSTORIES OF SISTERS: GIRL RISING (FILM FESTIVAL DAY 3)4:00 pm
Event Details
Sokha, a Cambodian teenager, was an orphan who scavenged through Phnom Penh's smoky rubbish dumps, "where a girl is one more thing the world has
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Event Details
Sokha, a Cambodian teenager, was an orphan who scavenged through Phnom Penh’s smoky rubbish dumps, “where a girl is one more thing the world has thrown away”. A stroke of luck enabled her to study, a rarity for a poor girl in her country. Now Sokha is a trained dancer. She has a future that, given her circumstances, she never could have imagined.
The documentary GIRL RISING (2013, 101 min) follows nine girls from different parts of the world who face arranged marriages, child slavery, and other heartbreaking injustices. Like Sokha’s story, scripted by the Cambodian writer Loung Ung and spoken by Alicia Keys, each girl’s testimony comes from a place with its own cinematic palette. Each weaponizes learning in a society that restricts it.
English language.
Free Entrance.
Free Entrance.
Time
(Saturday) 4:00 pm
