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30 October 2019

Ndiva Women’s Film Festival 2019: Subira by Sippy Chadha (Kenya)

Ndiva Women’s Film Festival 
(Ghana)


Subira (2018)
Sippy Chadha
Kenya
Fiction

Synopsis
A free-spirited young girl in Lamu struggles to live out her unique dream of swimming in the ocean, against local customs and in an arranged upper-class marriage. (99 min.)

Biography
Ravneet Sippy Chadha is a Kenyan Writer-Director, based in Nairobi. She quit financial services in 2007, as she had a powerful urge to tell her own stories through film. As a child she had to conform to a rigid set of rules. She rebelled against rules that denied her self expression.
(Source: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2341217/?ref_=tt_ov_dr)

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