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In a psychological landscape created by the eager eyes of men, womankind stares back. Behind every corner, in every window and hidden in the moonlit suburban streets — the male gaze is ever-present. ACTION OPPORTUNITY: This film contains action items. Learn how to make an impact <a href="https://changefest2021.eventive.org/films/613931b3b1c50000c31916af" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.

One Thousand Eyes

This interpretative piece gives a visual glimpse into the mind and heart of someone that was assaulted as they traverse the various stages of grieving and healing to once again find some sense of normalcy. ACTION OPPORTUNITY: This film contains action items. Learn how to make an impact <a href="https://changefest2021.eventive.org/films/613931b3b1c50000c319170e" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.

Faith Interrupted

Mute and almost motionless behind a two-way mirror, Gilles and Vanessa, a couple in their thirties, watch their daughter being interrogated. Agathe, 6 years old, explains the sexual touching of which she was a victim.

And After

In a lively district, peaceful appearances tinged with a warm atmosphere makes it inviting and charming. In this neighborhood, if you look closer, behind its colorful and welcoming houses; and behind the thick walls meant to protect and ward off danger; and behind the firmly ground walls that bear secrets, you discover the sordid story of a little girl, Akplokplobito, who endures the insurmountable. Realizing — and not without pain — that the insurmountable was becoming so unspeakable, this little girl, mad with terror, finally lifts the veil on the horror that now is part of her.

AKPLOKPLOBITO

In 1998, El Salvador reformed the criminal code to penalize abortion with prison sentences between 2 and 8 years. However, in the alleged cases of voluntary interruptions of pregnancy, women are sentenced for aggravated homicide — with sentences between 30 and 40 years. This is the story of Elsi, Cinthia, and Mariana. But it could be that of many others and that of us. ACTION OPPORTUNITY: This film contains action items. Learn how to make an impact <a href="https://changefest2021.eventive.org/films/613931b3b1c50000c31916ee" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.

The Story of All Us Women

The Momentum of the Butterfly takes an international approach to examining gender discrimination and violence, exploring the rising rates of violence against women in Mexico, Bangladesh, and the United States. Interviews explore causes for and ways to reverse this systemic oppression.

The Momentum of the Butterfly

Tina, a homeless woman, questions whether life is worth it as she tries to find her partner before he spends all the money he has stolen from her. At a crisis centre, she meets Frances, a social worker who is 40, finally pregnant, and has just discovered her husband’s secret. Their meeting is violently interrupted by Tina’s boyfriend who drags her away. Over a single day their lives interweave, revealing unsettling connections that lead to change and redemption. The ramifications lead both women to confront not only their partners but everything they ever believed in. ACTION OPPORTUNITY: This film contains action items. Learn how to make an impact <a href="https://changefest2021.eventive.org/films/613931b3b1c50000c3191705" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.

Some Happy Day

Commissioned by ChildHope UK and Shakti Samuha (the first anti-trafficking organization of its kind in the world and established by the survivors of trafficking), Survivors tells the stories of three inspirational and courageous girls who overcame abuse, forced labour, and disability to become change-makers in their own communities. ACTION OPPORTUNITY: This film contains action items. Learn how to make an impact <a href="https://changefest2021.eventive.org/films/613931b3b1c50000c31916aa" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.

Survivors

Abortion in El Salvador is punishable with 20 to 40 years in prison. Indebted to All Women wants to give voice to those women suffering and struggling to change one of the most restrictive laws in the world for sexual and reproductive rights. Director’s Statement: Our first contact with this story was framed in an international cooperation project. Someone told us about a group of women who were imprisoned for homicide after suffering complications during their pregnancies.&nbsp; We faced a wide range of challenges: constraints in freely moving around and filming in public spaces, personal safety, and finding people within a population that accepts abortion as a crime to talk about abortion, publically. Nevertheless, we were also lucky. Agrupación Ciudadana extended to us their contacts, archival footage, advice, and logical support; ACCP helped get us into institutions; Arpocsal provided a communitarian health promoter to guide us around the San Martín neighborhood and get access to hospitals and health centers; Tiempos Nuevos Teatro opened their shelter house to us.&nbsp; This documentary is owned by all of us; it is born as a tool for political incidence and social movement to change laws. And it is greatly rewarding to know that Indebted to All Women, along with other raw footage, was delivered to the Work Group on Arbitrary Detention at the UN to officially ask the Salvadoran government to release imprisoned women. In moments like these, we feel that our job has an impact that goes further than the filming itself.

Indebted to All Women

In a world of 7.8 billion people, about 3.8 billion are women, and 2.1 billion are of the Christian religion. There are more than 500 million Catholic women in the world; however, none of them will ever be able to become their spiritual leader because female ordination is forbidden in the Catholic religion.&nbsp; Nuntio Vobis explores the moments preceding the proclamation of the new pope, a role dictated by men and prevented from women to become.

Nuntio Vobis

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