Dina Duma’s ‘Skateboarding Is Not for Girls’ Is About Much More Than Just Skateboarding

Dina Duma’s ‘Skateboarding Is Not for Girls’ Is About Much More Than Just Skateboarding

The Sarajevo Film Festival competition title follows fatherless 11-year-old Adela, whose life is turned upside down when her sister is forced to have an arranged marriage: "Even when you don't see the man, you can feel the patriarchy."

Skateboarding Is Not For Girls

QUICK’N DIRTY: LIVE FROM SARAJEVO Adela (Efkjar Abaz) and her older sister Zara (Džefrina Jašari) are adolescents living with their mother Esma (Simonida Selimovič) in the suburbs of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. The opening drone shot of crammed asbestos roofs reveals that poverty prevails. And it could all get a lot worse. Esma’s husband (the father of the girls) moved to Switzerland and has not wired any money in six months, leaving…