Alba Sotorra
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Alba Sotorra grew up in Reus, Tarragona.[1] She studied film at the Complutense University of Madrid, from where she graduated in 2004.[1] Her last year she studied in Puerto Rico.[2] She obtained a European Masters in Cultural Education from the University of Rovira i Virgili in 2007.[1]
Professional career
Unveiled Views of 2008 is a documentary which portrays five women Alba Sotorra met while hitchhiking from Spain to Pakistan.[3]
Game Over was released in 2015, and treats the life of a man who is trapped in his internet world and in attempts to come free of it.[4] It won the Gaudì Award of Catalonia for best documentary in 2016.[2]
Comandante Arian was released in 2018 and is about a Kurdish female commander of the Women's Protection Units, who leads her troops towards Kobanî aiming for a defeat of the Islamic State.[5] She is also a member of the Dones Visuales.[1]
The Return: Life after ISIS of 2021 portrays Shamima Begum, Hoda Muthana or Kimberly Polman who had joined ISIS.[6][7] It contains news coverage of the defeat of ISIS at Baghuz and has a focus on the de-radicalization of the ISIS adherents.[6] It was nominated to the Goya Awards in 2022.[7]
