To Gulsoma with Love
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Gulsoma, an Afghani girl, is given as a ‘bride’ at age 4 to a family where she is subjected to unimaginable torture. At age 11, she runs away to escape death and afterwards is placed in an orphanage. When, by chance, the teacher in Istanbul reads about Gulsoma in the article ‘Child Bride’, she gives it to her students to read in class. Upon seeing her students’ misty eyes, she asks them to write Gulsoma a letter as homework.
The journey starts with letters full of affection and consolation and eventually turns into a donation campaign for both Gulsoma and the kids staying in the orphanage in Kabul.
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/ Director
Nejla Osseiran
​/ Editor
Mustafa Kenan Aybastı / Çağıl Åžen
/ Post Production Supervisor
Dilek ÅžiÅŸli
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/ Running time
17 dk / min.
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/ Year
2011