ASC Film seminar: From Namibia with love, in presence of filmmaker Laura Merilainen

The film’s charismatic main character Anita comes from Finland and her husband Salatiel is Namibian. In the 1970’s the couple assisted the Namibian Liberation Movement SWAPO who were fighting the South African occupation in order to free Namibia. In the middle of the struggle Anita and Salatiel had to make some difficult choices that lead to a conflict with the SWAPO leadership. The hardships the couple experienced in the 1970’s still haunts them. During the war Anita and Salatiel always defended those who could not defend themselves. Now almost 30 years later they are still carrying the burden of the past.

ascleiden fromnamibiawithlove