Skip to content
Poster for On Her Shoulders
RYOT Films On streaming

On Her Shoulders

2018 95 min English

Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to politicians and media, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the world stage as the voice of her people. Away from the podium, she must navigate bureaucracy, fame and people's good intentions.

Cast

5 people

Alexandria Bombach Director

United States release January 20, 2018 · Produced in United States · Languages Arabic, English, French

Production

R

RYOT Films

Production

O

Oscilloscope

Production

R

Red Reel

Production

United States

Produced in

Languages

Original language

English

Spoken on screen

Arabic · English · French

Release dates

United States · January 20, 2018

Premiere · Sundance Film Festival

United States

July 22, 2019 · TV · Television premiere - PBS "POV" series

Italy

December 6, 2018 · Limited theatrical · Uscita evento dal 6 al 12 dicembre 2018

Netherlands

December 10, 2018 · TV · NPO 2

United Kingdom

January 25, 2019 · Theatrical

More from Alexandria Bombach

Some details come from TheTVDB.

Now playing

On Her Shoulders

Trailer

Share

wubly

Track it on Wubly

Wubly is invitation-only during the beta. Join the waitlist and we'll email you an invitation.

Have an invitation? Sign up

You're offline

Recently viewed pages still work. Your changes save locally and sync when you're back.

Back online · syncing