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Just One Slap? is a French creative non-fiction about Katya in her thirties and mother of baby Zoe, victims of domestic violence in France. It focuses on physical and psychological violence of Katya’s former partner, as well as the institutional violence directed against them.

“History is written by men.”  This also applies to film history.  Guy-Blache was one of the first female filmmakers to direct movies during the origins of cinema itself.

HRW – My almost 2-year-old daughter fell on her head in a Washington, DC Starbucks, and it made me think of the children I met in Afghanistan just weeks before.  I was there to meet with civilian […]

The Guardian – The director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Last Men in Aleppo speaks of ‘trauma and paranoia’ over the extreme lengths some are taking to stop him from telling the truth. On 4 March, the […]

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VOA NEWS – BEIRUT, LEBANON — Within the confines of Lebanon’s Roumieh prison they gathered together as men recounting lives led before they became seen as terrorists. Inmates whose affiliations spanned across Islamic State (IS) and a […]

In connection with the registration of war victims’ complaints with the International Criminal Court to address war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Afghanistan since May 2003.

Ingmar Bergman’s spellbinding films made his female stars immortal. But they weren’t all grateful. Could this famously manipulative genius have survived in the #MeToo era?

Analysis finds proportion of female authors and characters fell after 19th century, with male authors remaining ‘remarkably resistant’ to writing women.

The most recent rape and murder in Pakistan caused a huge public outcry. Though similar cases in India have tended to attract fewer headlines, sexual violence in both countries is an ongoing problem