MUMBAI: Kim Longinotto's film Salma is one of the first five names announced for screening at the Documentary Edge Film Festival 2013, an international documentary film festival in Auckland, New Zealand.

The film is the story of thirteen year old Salma, a Muslim girl in a South-Indian village who is locked up by her family for 25 years. She is not allowed to study and forced into a marriage. She covertly takes up composing poems on scraps of paper. Eventually she escapes and lands up in the hands of a publisher. Salma becomes a celebrated Tamil poet, discovering her own freedom and challenging the traditions and code of conduct in her village.

Other films that would also screen at the festival are - Unraveled (USA) by Marc H Simon, How to Survive a Plague (USA) by David France, The Russian Winter (USA) by Petter Ringbom and Her Master's Voice (UK/USA) by Nina Conti.

The festival will be held from 10 to 21 April while another edition of the festival will run in Wellington from 8 to 19 May.