During the Covid-19 pandemic, Morisha is quarantined at home with her mother and grandmother. She reports on how her mother, an “essential worker” at a hospital for NHS, has to maintain distance from them to keep her grandmother safe. A moving story about three generations of Tamil women learning from each other and the pandemic.
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STEALING INTIMACY
‘He showed it to all their friends and they thought it was hilarious. I felt really humiliated.’ The reality of so-called slut-shaming.
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LULARTA: KOSOVO
Lularta from Kosovo shares her relatively calm COVID-19 experience isolating at home. But when the government of Kosovo collapses, and her mother talks about the lockdown triggering memories of trauma from the war, Lularta wonders: what’s next?
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KARMEN: CHICAGO
Karmen is a single-mom trying to balance motherhood, online classes, and parenting a toddler…all while dealing with Covid-19. Her story is relatable for young mothers everywhere. -
KAMO: SOUTH AFRICA
Kamo reports on all the misinformation circulating around her about the Covid-19 crisis, but then meets a nurse living in her building that tells her what its like to be on the frontlines of the pandemic in South Africa,
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BELONGING
Dila and Isabella discuss what it’s like to grow up in an ethnically diverse country, the U.K., but still be facing systemic racism and prejudice from primary school to employment. Produced for the GGM UK Summer Digital Training Academy.
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YALDA HAKIM INTERVIEW BY GGM UK
This is Yalda’s Hakim interview at the GGM’s UK film festival in 2021.
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LULARTA: KOSOVO
Lularta from Kosovo shares her relatively calm COVID-19 experience isolating at home. But when the government of Kosovo collapses, and her mother talks about the lockdown triggering memories of trauma from the war, Lularta wonders: what’s next?
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INGRID: GUATEMALA
Ingrid takes us into Villa Nueva, a low-income neighborhood where she lives, to show how day laborers and local vendors are getting by under Covid-19.
