Description
To escape oppression and a past that haunts her, Shewit flees Eritrea at great personal risk. At 15, after being captured by human traffickers in Libya, she finally arrives in Switzerland, a country in which she places all her hopes. But seven years later, she still does not have a residence permit, and her fate continues to depend on the authorities' decision... As a migrant on probation, facing deportation, Shewit does not give up and continues to fight to realize her dream: to become a free woman. A struggle for her emancipation, documented over ten years under the sensitive gaze of filmmaker Anne-Frédérique Widmann. Presence of the film team Note: This text was translated by software for machine translation and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Highlights
- Film about Shewit's escape from Eritrea
- Accompanied by filmmaker Anne-Frédérique Widmann
- Addresses emancipation and migration
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The screening of "Freedom – The Fate of Shewit" takes place at the Verein Kultur Wallis in Sitten. The documentary tells the moving story of a young woman who flees Eritrea at great personal risk and fights for her residence permit in Switzerland.
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September 2026
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