Professor Safia Swimelar’s POL389 class on International Human Rights will be screening several films over the next two months.
The second of their film series is “Lilya-4-Ever” and will be shown in KOBC 346 on Thursday Oct. 23 at 7:00 p.m. This is a great opportunity to get cultural event credit while learning about human rights.
Synopsis:
“In director Lukas Moodysson’s gut-wrenching 2005 drama, Oksana Akinshina stars as the 16-year-old title character who’s left to fend for herself in a blighted Estonian suburb when her mother (Lyubov Agapova) abandons Lilya to move to America. Eager to escape her grim surroundings and to seek a bright future, she falls victim to the promises of the charming Andrei (Pavel Ponomaryov), only to find a new life in Sweden worse than the one she left behind.” -Provided by Netflix
Sex trafficking has become a very lucrative business and major human rights abuse issue during the last couple decades, and this film forces the viewer to confront the forces behind it.
If you have any questions at all, please contact Katie Meyer (kmeyer3@elon.edu) for more information!
Note: Swimelar’s International Human Rights course (POLS 389) has organized this human rights film series in order to spread awareness at Elon of diverse and global human rights issues and to examine the role of images and film in our understanding of human rights. As part of their course requirements and for educational purposes only, students will briefly present on different aspects of the film and will lead a discussion with the audience.