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postheadericon Tobacco Girl / Tabakmädchen Trailer.mov

Tobacco Girl / Tabakmädchen Trailer.mov Video Clips. Duration : 2.88 Mins.


Mumine, a 14yearold Turkish girl lives with her family in the high mountains of Macedonia. Her family belongs to the Turkish minority. Mumine's family needs her for the difficult work in the tobacco fields -- their only source of income. Mumine is raised in the tobacco plants and the things that are ripe are sold. She is sold to her future husband for 3000 Euros. Will she find a way out from this 'law of nature'? She has two possibilities in the village: either to be married or to go to school, but then to be sold to her husband for a higher price. It is her dream to move to the city Skopje to go to school. She wants to become a teacher. Biljana Garvanlieva is born in Skopje, Macedonia. After her studies at the Philology Faculty and Faculty of Drama Arts in Skopje, she received a DAAD scholarship and continued studying in Tubingen and Berlin (Germany). She worked as a radio journalist and playwright for theatre. Her debut film 'Macedonia Dream -- A girl and her Accordion' won the most important German Short Film Award Golden Lola as well as the German Axel-Springer-Award for young Journalists. The film received a Special Mention Award at ZagrebDox Festival, the Golden Projector at Aster Fest Macedonian and the Gold Panda Award at the Sichuan TV Festival in China. Die 14-jährige Mümine gehört der ethnischen Minderheit der Yörüken in Makedonien an. Seit ihrer frühen Kindheit arbeitet sie auf den Tabakfeldern der Eltern. Bald soll Mümine an ihren zukünftigen Mann verkauft ...

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