Pray the Devil Back to Hell // Pray the Devil Back to Hell
( USA, 2008, 72 min. )
Director: Gini Reticker
Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the extraordinary story of a small band of Liberian women who came together in the midst of a bloody civil war, took on the violent warlords and corrupt Charles Taylor regime, and won a long-awaited peace for their shattered country in 2003. As the rebel noose tightened upon Monrovia, and peace talks faced collapse, the women of Liberia – Christian and Muslims united – formed a thin but unshakable white line between the opposing forces, and successfully demanded an end to the fighting– armed only with white T-shirts and the courage of their convictions. Their demonstrations culminated in the exile of Charles Taylor and the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first female head of state, and marked the vanguard of a new wave of women taking control of their political destiny around the world. Tribeca Film Festival-2008: Best Feature Documentary
Film is screened in the Free Thought. Documentary cinema program
Screening shedule
– only for press
22 June
23 June
