Meheret

Meheret

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 15, 2020

Runtime

1h 7m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

ميهيريت

Director

Fadi Haddad

Description

The film, which was shown on the occasion of the “International Migrants Day”, tells the story of “Mihiret”, a young Ethiopian woman who came to Lebanon to work as a domestic servant. Mihiret, who supports her mother and daughter in Ethiopia, begins her tragic journey with the labor system for female migrant workers in Lebanon and its inhumane conditions and moves from one job to another, experiencing physical, psychological and material abuses and depriving them of their rights as workers and as a human.