Displacement and Resilience

Sep 28, 2019

1h 0m

★ 0.0

Women live for a new day

Overview

The documentary is a five country-based sequences featuring stories about conflict, migration and the experience of exile; Tibetan women refugees in Dharamshala, India, Syrian refugee family in Tunisia, evicted indigenous women in the Phlippines; Rohingya women in Haryana and Delhi, and Syrian women refugees in Canada.

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Documentary

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