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She Who Must Be Loved

NATIVe - Indigenous Cinema 2019
© Kathryn Mills
Freda Glynn was never a big talker but these days she talks even less. When her documentary filmmaker daughter Erica Glynn tells her she wants to make a film about her, Freda responds simply with a shrug. And yet Freda has so much to relate. She could, for instance, talk about how she ran CAAMA, the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, an organisation that has been dedicated to Aboriginal music and culture since the early 1980s. Or perhaps how she trained Indigenous filmmakers at Imparja Television, casually managing to raise five children on her own at the same time. But instead, Freda uses her daughter’s project to research part of her family history. There is uncertainty about whether Freda’s grandmother was killed during a massacre of Indigenous Australians; Freda’s own mother was never able to clarify events during her lifetime. Together, Freda and Erica Glynn embark on a complex search for answers. Freda, we learn, is a determined woman whose strength, humour and creativity are expressed in all her dealings with the people she cares about. She is also a woman whose work has had a lasting impact on the Aboriginal community’s struggle for emancipation.
by Erica Glynn (Written and Directed by) Australia 2018 English 90' Colour Documentary form

Crew

Written and Directed by Erica Glynn
Cinematography Kathryn Milliss
Montage Karen Johnson
Music Aaron Trew
Sound Design Liam Egan
Sound David Tranter
Producer Tanith Glynn-Maloney
Co-Producer Erica Glynn

Produced by

Since1788 Productions

Annandale, Australia

Photos

Almagul Menlibayeva

© Almagul Menlibayeva

Almagul Menlibayeva was born in 1969 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and is a contemporary artist and curator. She works mainly with multi-channel video, photography and multimedia installations. Her work has been exhibited internationally at various biennials and triennials, as well as in galleries and museums. She was awarded the top prize at Kino der Kunst in Munich and the L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Ministry of Culture. She lives between Germany and Kazakhstan.

Filmography (Filmography)

2002 Eternal Bride; short film 2003 Steppen Baroque; short film 2007 Headcharge; short film 2009 Exodus; short film 2010 Milk for Lambs; short film 2012 Kurchatov 22; short film 2016 Tokamak; short film 2020 Ulugh Beg: Intrinsic Futuristic Machine of Central Asia; short film 2022 AI Realism – Qantar 2022; short film 2023 Nomadizing Water: Lines/Nets vs Blocks; short film · The Tongue and Hunger. Stalin’s Silk Road

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2026