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Lift Like a Girl

TIFF 2020: Lift Like a Girl Review

by Marc Glassman
September 19, 2020August 9, 2021
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Great documentaries are often created through amazing real life characters and Mayye Zayed's Lift Like a Girl has one for the ages in Captain Ramadan.

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