Burning Voice

Production year: 2026
Country: Iraq
Director: Anna Bruun Nørager
Producers: Zahraa Ghandour & Maria Stevnbak Westergren
Production company: Toolbox Film

Since founding the online platform Iraqi Women Rights in 2011, Tamara has used her voice and her unique position as both an insider and outsider in Baghdad to inform women in Iraq about their rights. She has inspired Iraqi women to dare to break the silence and report violations. But it is far from safe for women in Iraq to speak out about such issues.

Tamara herself has lived with harassment and serious threats for over a decade. Not only from people trying to sabotage her work for women’s liberation, but also from her violent ex-husband, from whom she fled with their son. He now refuses to grant her a divorce or leave her alone. But rather than breaking down, Tamara channels all the resistance she encounters into her activism and her enormous care for her family and sisters around the world who are also fighting for life and freedom.