Tamara Amer is fighting “a fierce battle against negative social control, a culture of silence, and the oppression of women in Iraq, where she grew up.” You have to watch the new documentary Burning Voice, though, to get a more detailed picture that the press notes for the film hint at. After all, since founding the online platform Iraqi Women Rights in 2011, Amer has used her voice and her dual position as an insider and outsider in Baghdad to help educate Iraqi women about their rights. Now, her work and her struggles are coming to the big screen.
Burning Voice, directed by Anna Bruun Nørager in her feature debut, world premieres on Friday, March 13 in the Human:Rights Competition of the 23rd edition of CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.
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