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Un ejército de mujeres

¿Qué sucede cuando las mujeres toman las armas y forman un ejército para defender sus derechos? La cineasta Alba Sotorra nos presenta a Aryan, una comandante de un ejército de mujeres en el norte de Siria, a quién siguió con su cámara durante la guerra.

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¿Qué sucede cuando las mujeres toman las armas y forman un ejército para defender sus derechos? La cineasta Alba Sotorra nos presenta a Aryan, una comandante de un ejército de mujeres en el norte de Siria, a quién siguió con su cámara durante la guerra.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxReus, an independent event.

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About the speaker

Alba Sotorra

Director and producer

Alba Sotorra, born in Reus in 1980, studied cinema at the Complutense University of Madrid and in the University of Puerto Rico. She directs and produces documentaries. Her work is based on human stories that lead to reflection on subjects such as freedom, equality, and identity, from a gender perspective. Her second documentary “Game over” (2015) was awarded the Gaudí 2016 as the best documentary, and she also received the New Talent award at DocsBarcelona. She is now finishing the shooting and editing of her fourth documentary, which is about Kurdish female guerrilla in Kobané, with whom she has lived in the war front for several months.

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