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title: 'On Her Shoulders (2018)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Alexandria Bombach'
released: '2018-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Documentary'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/on-her-shoulders-2018'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7689484/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# On Her Shoulders (2018)

2018 · Documentary, History · United States


## Synopsis

On Her Shoulders is a 2018 American documentary film. It was directed by Alexandria Bombach and produced by Hayley Pappas, Brock Williams and Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown under the banner of RYOT Films. The film follows Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad on her three-month tour of Berlin, New York, and Canada, as she met with politicians and journalists to alert the world to the massacres and kidnapping happening in her native land. In 2014, at the age of 19, Murad had been kidnapped with hundreds of other women and girls by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and held as a sex slave; she managed to escape. Also appearing in the film are Barack Obama, Ban Ki-moon, Murad Ismael, Simone Monasebian, Michelle Rempel, Borys Wrzesnewskyj, Ahmed Khudida Burjus, Amal Clooney, and Luis Moreno Ocampo.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Alexandria Bombach](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexandria-bombach)

## Cast

- [Nadia Murad](https://cinepixo.com/people/nadia-murad)

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Official site: http://www.onhershouldersfilm.com/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/on-her-shoulders-2018
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