Internationally-acclaimed, multiple-award winning filmmaker Kim Longinotto (ROUGH AUNTIES, World Cinema Jury Prize in Documentary, Sundance 2009) returns to Sundance 2013 with the World Premiere of her new documentary, SALMA - the extraordinary story of a woman who becomes the legendary activist, politician, poet, Salma.

Beautiful imagery and an evocative score accentuate the unfolding narrative of Muslim Tamil poet Salma, a luminous artist who defied her family to become one of the most important female literary figures in Southern India today. As a young child, when Salma reached puberty, her parents literally locked her away from the world at large—and men in particularly. All over the globe millions of young girls share the same fate, but Salma refused to let her years of imprisonment quell the voice she secretly nurtured. Twenty-five years later, Salma’s vision of the world beyond her bars is transformed and her voice loud.