Malalai Joya is a 28-year-old Afghani woman who in 2005 ran in her country’s first democratic parliamentary election in over 30 years. A survivor of repeated assassination attempts, she spreads her message surrounded by guards. How do you introduce democracy in a country where almost everyone is illiterate, votes are for sale and women cannot leave their children to vote? As the film eloquently reminds us, it takes more than Western soldiers and diplomats. Joya is a controversial voice for a nation ruined by war and ruled by tradition, and a voice with a desperate urge for change.
Eva Mulvad
Eva Mulvad, born 1972, is a Danish documentary lm director. She graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2001. Eva is a director of documentaries for DR TV since 1997. In 2006 she received IDFA Silver Wolf Award and World Cinema Jury Prize at Sundance for Enemies of Happiness. She also was a winner of the 2006 Women in Film and TV award for young film talents. The Good Life (2010) was shown at IDFA and won the award for Best Documentary at Karlovy Vary IFF. Her film A Modern Man (2017) premiered at CPH:DOX.
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Vores lykkes fjender
Denmark
2006, 59', color, video
Directed by:
Eva Mulvad
Cinematography:
Zillah Bowes
Edited by:
Adam Nielsen
Music:
Thomas Knak, Jesper Skaaning, Anders Remmer
Producer:
Helle Faber
Produced by:
Bastard Film A/S
