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Rafea: Solar Mama

  • 20122012
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  • 1h 15m
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Rafea: Solar Mama (2012)
Documentary
Rafea is a Bedouin woman who lives with her four daughters in one of Jordan's poorest desert villages on the Iraqi border. She is given a chance to travel to India to attend the Barefoot Col... Read allRafea is a Bedouin woman who lives with her four daughters in one of Jordan's poorest desert villages on the Iraqi border. She is given a chance to travel to India to attend the Barefoot College, where illiterate grandmothers from around the world are trained in 6 months to be so... Read allRafea is a Bedouin woman who lives with her four daughters in one of Jordan's poorest desert villages on the Iraqi border. She is given a chance to travel to India to attend the Barefoot College, where illiterate grandmothers from around the world are trained in 6 months to be solar engineers. If Rafea succeeds, she will be able to electrify her village, train more en... Read all
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136
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    • Mona Eldaief
    • Jehane Noujaim
  • Stars
    • Rafea Anad
    • Bunker Roy
    • Raouf Dabbas
    • Mona Eldaief
    • Jehane Noujaim
  • Stars
    • Rafea Anad
    • Bunker Roy
    • Raouf Dabbas
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    Rafea Anad
    • Self - 32 years
    Bunker Roy
    • Self - The Barefoot College
    Raouf Dabbas
    • Self - Environment Ministry, Jordan
    Alian Anad
    • Self - Rafea Anad's husband
    Umm Badr
    • Self - mother of nine
    Abu Badr
    • Self
    Fakhr Anad
    • Self - Rafea Anad's son
      • Mona Eldaief
      • Jehane Noujaim
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    7/10
    So often, men SUCK
    The director is famous for the documentary, 'The Square', one of my favourites, I was happy to finally find her earliest work, 'Solar Mama'. It's valuable because it offers an insight into a world I knew nothing about.

    An NGO chooses 27 uneducated women from remote parts of the world to attend a 6-month training course at the Barefoot College in rural India where they learn how to solder a circuit board for solar lights.

    The unlikely heroine is Rafea, a Bedouin living on a hellish landscape in Jordan near the border with Syria. Her community of 300 is unemployed. She's had 9 children, lives in a tent, has no electricity, and is second wife to a loser husband who lives with his first wife.

    Nevertheless, the chauvinistic culture means that he makes her main decisions. If it were a fiction movie, he would be labelled 'The Enemy'. In reality, he's as pathetic as he's an opposer.

    It's an interesting scenario juxtaposed with the joy the women, who cannot speak in each other's language, find in each other and empowerment.
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    • Oct 29, 2022

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    • Release date
      • November 5, 2012 (United States)
      • Denmark
      • United States
      • Egypt
      • Official site
      • TIFF - Official site
      • Arabic
      • English
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      • Tilonia, Rajasthan, India
    • Production companies
      • ITVS International
      • Noujaim Films
      • Plus Pictures
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