FILM SCREENING: SAVING DOLMA

Director: Kesang Tseten

Length 62 min

About Documentary:
The film follows the thread of dolma, sentenced to death for killing a Filipino co-domestic worker in Kuwait, and the multiple responses this evokes-of a women’s advocacy group, society and officialdom, and, finally, the upheaval and fractures of the family. The film presents a rare glimpse of the women migrants’ situation in a Gulf State, sensitive to outside scrutiny of their treatment of foreign workers. The film also shows the fundamentally vulnerable condition of the ill-prepared, though courageous and resilient, women from a poor country making what could be the most hazardous journey of their lives.

About Director:
Kesang Tseten is the director of numerous documentaries such as Hami kunako manchhe (‘We corner people’), the winner of the Best Nepali Documentary award at the 2006 Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival; On the Road with the Red God: Machhendranath, winner of the Grand Prize at the 2006 Kendal Mountain Film Festival; and In Search of the Riyal premiered at the 2010 International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA).

In association with Film Southasia.
http://www.filmsouthasia.org/film/saving-dolma/