Legerin, in Search of Alina (2024)

Overview

Alina Sánchez, Lêgerîn, internationalist doctor, anthropologist, active participant in the Kurdistan Women's Liberation Movement, researcher specialized in the relationship between medicine and ancestral knowledge, coordinator of health care systems in the Middle East wars, friend , companion. With respect as the guiding thread of the documentary, María Laura Vásquez reconstructs each of these multiple lives of the doctor from Córdoba who died at the beginning of 2018 in Syria; but she also appropriates her story to vindicate the women who, as the filmmaker points out, “have been called to action in solidarity with their people and with other peoples in the world.”