| Killing Her is a Ticket to Paradise (56 min) Yemen |
[watch trailer] |
Tuesday 10/21, 4:30 PM (Session 15)
Director/Producer: Khadija Al-salami
Description:
When Boushra writes an article expressing her pain and great disappointment in a broken and confiscated dream of freedom and democracy, it never occurs to her that her writing will become a serious threat to herself and her family.
Biography:
Khadija Al-Salami gained her independence at an early age when her family forced her into an early marriage at the age of eleven. In order to escape family pressure and tradition, she found a job at the local TV station in the afternoons, while pursuing her studies in the mornings. She earned a scholarship at sixteen years of age to the United States, where she studied filmmaking. Her first film, for her thesis, was about women in Yemen. Khadija is Yemen’s first woman filmmaker, and has made some over twenty documentaries for various TV stations in France and Yemen and received several awards at various film festivals worldwide. With her husband, she has written a book, "The Tears of Sheba,” about her experiences growing up in Yemen. She occupied until 2011 the post of press counselor and director of the Communication and Cultural Center at the Embassy of Yemen in Paris.
Contact Information:
Hoopoe Film
e: kalsalam@yahoo.com
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