Where to watch

Award Winner, BIPOC Stories, Education, International, Women + Director, Women-Centered Stories

Rafea: Solar Mama

A Fiscally Sponsored Project

Directors:

Karim Amer, Mette Heide, Alexandra Johnes, Mike Lerner:

2012

75 minutes

Rafea, a Bedouin woman from Jordan, travels to India to attend the Barefoot College, where illiterate grandmothers from around the world are trained in 6 months to be solar engineers.

Awards

2012 DOC NYC- Special Jury Prize & Audience Award
2012 Wakefield International Film Festival- Best of Fest
2012 Oxfam Award- Global Justice

Official Selections

2012 Doha Tribeca Film Festival
2012 IDFA: International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
2013 Human Rights Watch Film Festival
2013 Sheffield Doc/Fest