Credits
Director Lia Beltrami
Writer Lia Beltrami
Producer Andrea Morghen
Project Type Documentary
Runtime 30 minutes
Country of Origin Italy
Sinopsis
“The day we left Syria, the bombings were as strong as rain …”. Hence the story of Shaima, fleeing the war, kidnapped as a victim of trafficking. Is there still hope? You cannot live without it.
Among stones, deserts, mountains and dust, a group of brave Arab women gives life to Wells of Hope, to give answers to the drama of trafficking, together with the worldwide network Talita Kum. They are women of different religions who live in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria. They move between borders, conflicts and refugees. They want to restore the dignity of the victims and rebuild the dignity of the abused people. The path is not easy, but the determination of these women will open a new way.
Director Biography
Lia Beltrami has received the Golden Lion for Peace 2017 in Venice. She directed 40 documentaries all over the world; she won several awards for her films. She is appointed as Representative of Religions for Peace at FAO -UN. She was the artistic director at Vatican Pavilion at Expo Milan 2015, which was awarded as the Pavilion which best developed the theme and she was the artistic director for the photographic exhibition in Expo Astana 2017, Kazakhstan. In 1997 she founded Religion Today Film Festival, the first festival about inter-religious dialogue.
