Movies: Violence against women

After being invited to an interview for young gender violence victims, Sabrina narrates her own dark past with her obsessive ex boyfriend, while every hidden tear comes back to the surface....

Inspired by a real-life news item, this animated short paints a pulsating portrait of a mixed-use, working-class neighbourhood where young families cross paths with prostitutes, their interactions leaving unpredictable ripples in the motley fabric of...

September 2016: Stacey Dooley embeds herself on the frontline with the extraordinary all-female Yazidi battalion, who are fuelled to take revenge against the so-called Islamic State. As the battle to take Mosul from ISIS advances in Northern Iraq, in...

The #MeToo movement has shined much-needed light on the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and abuse and created unprecedented demand for gender violence prevention models that actually work. THE BYSTANDER MOMENT tells the story of one of the most p...

From the moment a girl goes to her in-laws house, an evil force called violence surrounds her. In this story too, a girl is going to her in-laws house after marriage. A character named "Violence" starts giving bad advice to the girl's husband, father...

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"Women On Trail" exposes the innate corruption and sexism in the family court system as children are removed from their mothers and given to fathers who often either don't want them or have been convicted of domestic violence....

When an unstable and grief-stricken young man murders the alleged killer of his best friend, he must try to conceal what he’s done from the loose-lipped guests attending his friend's vigil....

Lorena tries to rebuild her life while her husband, a manipulative Italian-Argentinean, slowly and subtly locks her up in a psychological prison from which she must escape....

In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ exploitation of the land and violence inflicted on Indigenous women and girls. Or, as one young woman testifies, “Just as the land is being used, thes...

Documentary on the work of the Garda Síochána to combat anti-social behaviour on the streets of the capital. We hear the stories of victims of verbal and physical abuse....

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Filmed in a refuge for abused women, Break Free shows the courage of these women, most of whom tell their story openly to the camera. The film chronicles the shelter’s ups and downs, its dramatic and happy moments, and at its heart we get to know the...

One morning in the early 90s, florist Ádina performs domestic tasks after apparent disagreements with her husband, Ivo....

In a Brazilian village infested with piranhas, Nanã and Mel are fast growing into adolescence as they dream of ways of protecting themselves against a seemingly inescapable violence. When a mysterious body appears tangled in a fisherman's net, they l...

Aarya leaves her family in the city to pursue her passion for the arts. She is gifted a red scarf, and is haunted by a Churail; a demonic and malevolent South Asian Witch....

"Afloat" is a short animated film on domestic abuse based on the poem "A Smile to Remember’"by Charles Bukowski. This is a story about courage, a story about staying afloat....

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Whilst house-sitting in a secluded home in Scotland, Aarya, an expressionist painter, is gifted a red scarf sent by her aunt from Pakistan, and becomes haunted by a Churail; a demonic and malevolent South-Asian Witch....