Wilma Ligthart / Netherlands / 2005 / 15 min.
With her father, muther, brothers and sister, Ayla (11) goes on holiday to sri lanka. When she goes to the hotel room
to get the towels, she motices that the sea is very high. At the moment everybody begins to scream and run sche is
taken along by the tsunami. Going under, all she can think is : "I'll survive, because otherwise my family will
survive and i won't." Kalu, the fruit salesman from the beach, in the end manages to get her out of the water.
In this short documentary film by Wilma Ligthart, Ayla's experience is shown as an animation using ayla's own
drawings.
Screenings
Category
Ecology,Human rights
Production Company
Lemming Film
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