Details for record No: 35
Vanna

“While she was feeding the chickens, Vanna, an eight-year old girl, stepped on an anti-personnel landmine near her village in Cambodia. Her leg was stolen from her. During one year, Vanna, determined and courageous, learned progressively the new limits of her body and to confront stares. Never loosing her charm, dignity, nor her spirit, she persisted in overcoming suffering and regaining her autonomy. It took one year to produce this film, a year during which the director Eric Vander Borght and his team shared the intimacy of Vanna’s family, with the villagers in the northeast of the country, imbibing a certain “khmeritude” made of smiles, strength and nostalgia.
Vanna symbolizes the fate of 600,000 victims of this weapon, and their families, whose rights have been sadly ruined. Today, they continue to hope for massive aid from the international community, an increase in resources committed to mine action and the implementation of the MBT.”

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