Ninosca

Ninosca

2DCS/ESU
Director:Peter Torbiörnsson
Premiere:11. March 2020
Length:104 minutes
Genre:Documentary

Director: Peter Torbiörnsson

Forty years ago, Swedish director Peter Torbiörnsson started filming village life in the midst of civil war. It was then he met 12-year-old Ninosca, and began to visit regularly. He tracks her coming of age, love, marriage, pregnancy. As the girl becomes a woman, problems start to mount up, owing to societal structures. It takes years, but once her children are grown, Ninosca finds the inner strength to challenge her restricted life as her husband’s maid and victim of domestic violence. She wants nothing more than to live with dignity. She decides to leave her family for a while and stand on her own two feet. She heads to Spain in search of a good job. Perhaps this way she can return and fulfil her dream – a coffee plantation of her own.

Length: 104 min

Year: 2020
Local premiere date: 11. March 2020

Country of origin:

  • Sweden

Director: Peter Torbiörnsson

Forty years ago, Swedish director Peter Torbiörnsson started filming village life in the midst of civil war. It was then he met 12-year-old Ninosca, and began to visit regularly. He tracks her coming of age, love, marriage, pregnancy. As the girl becomes a woman, problems start to mount up, owing to societal structures. It takes years, but once her children are grown, Ninosca finds the inner strength to challenge her restricted life as her husband’s maid and victim of domestic violence. She wants nothing more than to live with dignity. She decides to leave her family for a while and stand on her own two feet. She heads to Spain in search of a good job. Perhaps this way she can return and fulfil her dream – a coffee plantation of her own.

Year: 2020
Local premiere date: 11. March 2020

Country of origin:

  • Sweden