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Title 2 girls / a film by Federico Schiavi and Marco Speroni ; directed by Marco Speroni
Published Florence, Tuscany : Berta Films, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (52 minutes)
Summary Lota comes from the poor rural area of Bangladesh and dreams to improve her status and gain economic independency. She moves to the megacity of Dhaka, finds shelter in a slum and starts to work in a garment factory. She works 12 hours a day, earning 50 cents of a dollar per hour. Tigist, an Ethiopian girl, was meant to have more privileged life. She was born in a family of two teachers, but after both her parents died in a car crash, she became a victim of abuse by her relatives. Escaping from a situation of enslavement, Tigist ends up on the streets of Addis Ababa. Without a place to sleep or anyone to call for, she is quickly surrounded by predators and has to fight for her surivival. 2 Girls is a character-driven and observational documentary about two young women who are linked to each other through a universal journey of poverty and abuse for the sake of dreaming a better life. It's a heartbreakingly harsh journey, where Lota and Tigist meet their hopes and destinies. Yet, despite their tough lives, they reveal an inner strength and great dignity. They come from poverty, they fall into even worse conditions, but they never stop striving to improve their state. Overwhelmed by global injustice and gender-oriented abuse, Lota and Tigist manage to keep their souls uncorrupted by the wrongdoings they face. The story of 2 Girls is a story lived every day by millions of girls all around the world but rarely has it been told with the same power of testimony than in this documentary
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed November 06, 2019)
In Amharic and Bengali with English subtitles
Won 2016 Tiburon International Film Festival, Golden Reel Award - Best Documentary
Nominated 2016 RIFF - Roma Independent Film Festival, RIFF Award - Best Italian Documentary
Won 2016 HumanDoc Film Festival, Grand Prix Award - Best Foreign Documentary
Subject Young women -- Bangladesh
Young women -- Ethiopia
Abused women -- Ethiopia
Homeless women -- Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
Prostitutes -- Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
Poverty -- Bangladesh
Poverty -- Ethiopia
Abused women.
Economic history.
Homeless women.
Poverty.
Prostitutes.
Social conditions.
Young women.
SUBJECT Ethiopia -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045133
Ethiopia -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045150
Bangladesh -- Economic conditions
Bangladesh -- Social conditions
Subject Bangladesh.
Ethiopia.
Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Speroni, Marco, director, producer
Schiavi, Federico, producer
Berta Films, film distributor