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KASHMIR - JOURNEY TO FREEDOM

By Udi ALONI

CINEPHIL - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2008

The story of a new generation of Kashmiri Muslims who began a nonviolent resistance struggle to change the destiny of their nation.

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ISRAEL, USA, JAPAN
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 73 mn
- Director(s)
- Udi ALONI
- Producer(s)
- Udi ALONI, Sara KAMENS, Rafi COHEN
- Synopsis
- Once described by Mahatma Gandhi as “a pillar of light in a subcontinent lost in darkness,” Kashmir has become a land of terror and despair; suffering under the strain of constant violence and human rights violations. This film tells the story of a new generation of young Muslim Kashmiris who, after years of armed resistance, decided to lay down their arms and start a nonviolent resistance movement in the hope of finally achieving peace and independence. They strive for a renaissance of the Kashmiri tradition of religious and ethnic coexistence, inspired by Sufi culture and the spirit and history of Kashmir.
  In a rare look at the region, Udi Aloni filmed his protagonists as they launched their new struggle. Finally refused re-entry by the Indian government, Aloni was forced to tell the rest of this story far from the land and people he had come to admire.