The architect entrusts his daughter, Lida, and his son, Taher, to an engineer before his death. The engineer goes to Ahvaz and takes Lida with him to raise her alongside his son Shahram - and the neighbors raise Taher among them. Years later, Shahram rapes Lida, and the the engineer, suspecting that Lida is a promiscuous woman, kicks her out of his house.
Following the death of Amina Filali, a 16 year-old girl who killed herself after she was allegedly forced to marry the man who raped her, a young woman carries a personal investigation into the representation and perception of rape in Morocco. Here rapists are offered to marry their victims as a means to save the "honour" of the family. By liberating the voices of these victims, 475 : Break the Silence gives an unprecedented view of family, the deceit of love, relationships, marriage and honour in urban deprived areas of a country seeking to find its identity between modernity and tradition.
A presentation of the historical process of rape, followed by a more recent approach of current studies that reinforce ÒRape Reliefs own statistics.
"Dolida" is the female cry of internal struggle, within a violent macho society full of dangers. Our film recounts the inner journey of a young woman, which will take her through chapters full of pain, which have ended up defining part of her psychological evolution process.
"Growing increasingly elusive. A lingering lament remains unvanquished." The life of Atun (22), a girl with intellectual disabilities, along with her father and mother, is further besieged by tragedy after she became a victim of rape, leaving behind lingering trauma that disrupts her mental well-being.
Young Laura leaves her small town, where she has been subjected to sexual harassment and finally raped, for New York City. However, she turns into a nymphomaniac who sleeps with both men and women.
An explicit anti-rape film.
Some time ago Chrissi was the victim of a brutal rape. Since then, she has been vegetating at home and no one, neither friends nor doctors, can find access to her and her feelings. She spends her days apathetically and even her brother, who has come to visit from New Zealand, cannot bring her out of her apathy. Then Chrissi finally meets someone in the park, a shepherd dog, who understands her suffering...
Still healing from her grandmother’s death, Addison Moore finds herself checking into The Copper Queen Hotel in Bisbee, Arizona. Aware of the ghost stories and hauntings, Addison fearlessly elects to stay in Room 315, the location of the heartbroken Julia Lowell’s death a century ago.
A young woman confronts her trauma while on a date in a "Dating in the Dark"-format.
Suryono comes from Solo and is of royal descent. Jeannette a beautiful woman from France. Suryono took Jeannette to his hometown of Solo and finally got married, even though the marriage was not approved by Suryono's mother. The love between nations broke and Jeanette returned to France. Meanwhile Suryono, who was lonely, managed to ravish his servant, Trimah.
A real estate agent shows an apartment to two young men. The visit should have been like any other one, but the men have other expectations.
When upholding the family's clean image is more sacred to a mother than saving her daughter. The daughter, in the name of vengeance and salvation, learns to embrace destruction.
A deaf and dumb girl in a village is raped by a man, becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby. Jabbar later marries the village headman's daughter but his wife can't get pregnant. Therefore, he wants to get the baby for himself and his wife.
In a big city Edith K., called "Madame", runs her fashion salon. She plans to spend the coming weekend with a friend and her models in her villa in the countryside to indulge in lesbian tastes while having good meals.
Human curiosity and two-sidedness, in human ways, the behaviors that are inherently unknown. Enjoy secretly whatever the way, for your own pleasure. In the end, humans deceive humans and make an effort to meet their needs.
A young couple struggles with jealousy.
In the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, rape has been used as a weapon of war for more than 15 years. Martha writes a teenage girl’s guide to surviving sex slavery.