Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to the world, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice of her people.... (Full plot summary below)
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Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to the world, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice of her people.
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| CineVueLucy PopescuBombach’s camera captures Murad’s extreme courage, her dignity, humility and sorrow – she is wise beyond her years and the weight of her loss hangs heavily on her. |
| Backseat MafiaRob AldamOn Her Shoulders is a cleverly made portrait of a person desperate to move on with her life but fated to keep re-living her past horrors. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatThe inspiring spiritual odyssey of a young Yazidi woman who has brought hope to her people. |
| Village VoiceBilge EbiriEven though she never loses her focus on Nadia, Bombach subtly shifts her attention from Nadia’s specific requests from the international community to the thornier question of what happens to the Yazidis from here onward. |
| indieWireDavid EhrlichIf On Her Shoulders struggles for an ending, perhaps that’s because we have to supply our own. People like Nadia can’t fix the world, but this vital documentary is proof that it’s heroic enough just to be heard. |
| L.A. WeeklyAlan ScherstuhlEspecially wrenching are scenes of the Yazidi, torn from the land of their birth, separated from one another in camps, confronting the question of how to remain unified when scattered across the globe. |
| Washington PostVanessa H. LarsonThe powerful and affecting documentary On Her Shoulders doesn’t rehash Murad’s suffering in painful detail. Instead, filmmaker Alexandria Bombach, who made the 2015 Afghanistan documentary “Frame by Frame,” chronicles Murad’s more recent life, revealing her to be a compelling and inspiring subject. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranOn Her Shoulders is an intimate, empathetic documentary, made with discretion and power. |
| VarietyJay WeissbergIt’s one thing to tell a traumatic story, and another to capture how that trauma impacts a life. What makes Alexandria Bombach’s On Her Shoulders so powerful — besides the profound dignity of its subject, Yazidi massacre survivor Nadia Murad — is the way she reveals Murad’s distress at having to take on the role of activist. |
| The New York TimesKen JaworowskiAlexandria Bombach’s direction and editing are exceptional; she captures images that are both subtle and formidable. Her film is, first and foremost, a profile of Murad and her mission. Yet it’s also a comment on the media and on government aid. |
