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SOUND OF TORTURE

By Keren SHAYO

Documentary - Completed 2013

Live calls from the torture camps in Sinai: since Europe closed its borders in 2006, thousands of Eritrean refugees flee their military dictator-ruled country north to Israel, crossing the Sinai desert. There, many are kidnapped by Bedouins and taken to one of the hidden camps.

- Year of production
- 2013
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ISRAEL
- Languages
- ENGLISH, HEBREW
- Duration
- 58 mn
- Director(s)
- Keren SHAYO
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-2464-0000-E-0000-0000-W
- EIDR
- 10.5240/29F7-E8C7-A369-7F31-6F44-N
- Producer(s)
- Galit CAHLON (Trabelsi), Osnat TRABELSI (Trabelsi)
- Synopsis
- The film intimately follows Meron Estefanos, an Eritrean journalist-activist living in Sweden since many years, running a popular online radio program, publishing the stories of these camps while recording their inmates' pleas for help.
  We are with Meron when she searches for Timinit, a girl of 20 years who arrived at the Israeli border but from there is never seen again. And we follow the story of a man who desperately tries to free his wife, who gives birth to their child in captivity.
  When Eritrea gained independence in 1993, it became a military dictatorship. Military service is obligatory for everyone; women are exempted only when pregnant. Any critic or opponent of the regime faces immediate arrest. Around 3,000 Eritreans flee their country every month, despite a "shoot-to-kill" policy on the borders. In the last decade, more than 300,000 Eritreans have fled their homeland, also to Europe.
  SOUND OF TORTURE gives a face to those nobody cares about, touching political, cultural, and geographical matters.