To escape oppression and a haunting past, Shewit, risking her life, fled Eritrea. At the age of 15, after having been imprisoned by human traffickers in Libya, she finally reaches Switzerland, the country where she has placed all her hopes. Seven years later, she still does not have a permit, her fate resting in the hands of the Swiss authorities. A migrant in amnesty, threatened with deportation, Shewit maintains her fight to achieve her dream: to become a free woman. A battle for her emancipation, filmed over the course of a decade.

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Coordination asile.ge | Centre Social Protestant Genève | Effe | SolidaritéS NE | Service de l’intégration Chaux de fonds | Espace Femmes Yverdon | Centre Social Protestant Lausanne | HEKS/EPER | REDIDA | Office de l’asile du Valais | Hospice Gérale de Genève | Schweizerische Beobachtungsstelle für Asyl- und Ausländerrecht | Commune Grand-Saconnex | Amnesty CH-FR | Amnesty CH-IT

South Africa, 1968. Apartheid is the law of the land. Khuthala, a gifted young musician, wants nothing to do with his family’s laundry business. He dreams of jazz, of a life shaped by music, not soap and steam. But when the apartheid government begins cracking down on Black-owned businesses, and Khuthala’s father is arrested and brutally beaten, the dream begins to collapse.

To save his father, Khuthala makes an impossible choice — one that will betray his closest friends and his own ambitions. But in the world of apartheid, even sacrifice is not enough

A powerful story of courage and an unshakeable will to resist. Set against the brutal backdrop of apartheid, this moving drama tells the story of a young man’s struggle to protect his family, his dignity and his dream of freedom. With passion and humanity, the film “Laundry” reminds us that even in the darkest of times, hope can be a great source of strength.

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JazzOnze+ | Htag Ciné | Payot | Blues Festival Baden | Sonart.swiss | AFEEDA