Ninosca - The Woman And The Emigrant´s Song

A captivatingly beautiful and loving portrait of Ninosca, which the filmmaker Peter Torbiörnsson has followed for 40 years, but also about the social injustices that characterize our time.

Many years have passed since Torbiörnsson first met Ninosca in the small Nicaraguan village San Fernando. At that time she was 13. Since then she has participated in both his prize-winning documentaries The Lovers of San Fernando (GFF 2001) and Last Chapter: Goodbye Nicaragua (GFF 2011). Nowdays Ninosca has left her husband and is living as an undocumented work migrant in Spain. But the trip intended to generate money for her children’s studies has resulted in a nightmarish existence with inhumane working conditions. Torbiörnsson continues his life’s work portraying a poor woman’s liberation and class differences at a global level.

• Tobias Åkesson