Haja Fatma, a mother of eight children, tells the tale of family life in Tripoli during the Libyan Revolution. Women, young and old, all contributed during these hostile months in their own unique way. A human portal into the acts of ordinary people in their hope for freedom.
Screening Formats: Digi-Beta, DVD
Highlights:
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Tripoli Human Rights Film Festival 2012 (Libya)
OFFICIAL SELECTION – London MENA Film Festival 2012 (UK)
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Arab Film Festival 2012
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Africa in Motion 2012 (UK)
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Take One Action Festival 2013 (UK)
OFFICIAL SELECTION – International Women Film Festival of Sale 2013 (Morocco)
OFFICIAL SELECTION – DokuFest 2013 (Kosovo)
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Eclectik Montreal 2013 (Canada)
OFFICIAL SELECTION – London Short Film Festival 2013
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Karama Human Rights Film Festival 2014 (Jordan)
SCREENED – DocHouse Thursdays – London 2013 (UK)
SCREENED – Doc Tent (DocHouse) Wychwood Festival 2013 (UK)
SCREENED – Wee Green Cinema – Take One Action 2016 (UK)
Compilation Screened at:
Medimed 2012 (Spain)
TransEuropa 2013 (Poland)
Encounters 2013 (UK)
Libya in Motion Compilation Screened at:
Dubai Film Market 2015 (Dubai)
Festival du Film Documentaire de Saint-Louis 2015 (Senegal)
One World 2016 (Czech Republic)
El Espejo IFF 2016 (Columbia)
Document 2016 (UK)
Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema – “Ban This Series”, March 2017 (Canada)
To arrange a screening contact: festivals@scotdoc.com
Seventh Art Stand Screenings, May/June 2017 (USA):
Browning Cinema, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
The Nightlight Cinema, Akron, Ohio
Anthology Film Archive, New York
Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii
Casa Arabe – November 2019, Cordoba (Spain)
