Like Dolls, I'll Rise(2018)

Like Dolls, I'll Rise Synopsis

From the 1840s until the 1940s, anonymous Afro-American women made rag dolls for their own children or for the white children they were looking after. Black, injured, forgotten and magnificent dolls, gathered together over the years in Debbie Neff’s collection, here lend their moving expressive features to the women that a century of slavery, segregation and racism tried to silence. Far from being the mute witnesses of their suffering, dreams and courage, these objects haunted by so many stories become, for the length of this film, the intermediaries of a discourse of self-affirmation and liberation. From Sojourner Truth to Maya Angelou,

Like Dolls, I'll Rise (2018) is a documentary film directed by Nora Philippe, released on April 17, 2018 with a runtime of 28m. Viewers rate it 8.0 out of 10 across 1 ratings.