Kæresteparret Elliot og Mads mødes for første gang, efter Mads har været bortrejst til USA. Genforeningen er knugende, men hurtigt opstår der knas i forholdet. Mads prøver med intime tilnærmelser, så snart de er alene i hans lejlighed, men Elliot er hverken interesseret i kærtegn eller sex og virker generelt fraværende. Distanceringens anstødssten viser sig at være et uforløst traume. Elliot er blevet voldtaget, og han har båret rundt på oplevelsen i ensomhed. Traumet æder sig hastigt ind i hans forhold med Mads, og et indre opgør i maser sig på: Bør han betro sig fuldt ud til Mads, eller er det allerede for sent?
A young wife of a blind older man undergoes strict and abusive training in his Geisha dance school. She had married her teacher after he was struck blind at the shock of his first wife’s death. The son from the first marriage, who fled the house after his mother died, returns and begins to pursue his step-mother. Will she succumb to his passionate advances or will she continue with her craft within a loveless marriage?
A young woman confronts her trauma while on a date in a "Dating in the Dark"-format.
Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin's expose on the pornography industry.
Carlito 'Kado' is sentenced to three years in prison for fraud, leaving his pregnant girlfriend to fend for herself in the real world.
A happily married couple’s life turns into trauma after their eight-year-old daughter is raped. Will the family be able to put their lives back on track?
Public information film regarding female safety and how to safeguard against rape
The film is based on the true story of a maid who was either seduced or raped and made pregnant by her Chinese employer; the baby was either killed by the employer's wife or by her own hand, depending on who you talk to.
It's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily, his mother. In her desk he finds a soldier's photograph and assumes he's found his father. He confronts the man, now a teacher, and gets nowhere. At home again, he mocks his mother. Finally, she tells him her grim story, from the year before his birth. We see a people's court, where Lily's parents seek justice for their grandchild to be. We follow Lily to a prison camp, to the city where she's told to inform on the only person who's been kind, to an asylum, and finally to her current poverty and loneliness. How will Malin respond to these revelations?
In a surreal meeting filled with countless individuals from a variety of backgrounds, nine people recount how sex and sexuality have been used to exert control over their lives. Regardless of race, sexual orientation, nationality, social class, religion, or gender, all are equally shattered and all are equally victims. Those that recount their experiences show that the power / sex dynamic can come in many forms. Whether the power is taken away by physical or psychological means, and regardless of whether it is perpetrated by an individual, institution, or society, the results are equally devastating.
ZOMBIE, a 19 minute psychological horror film, is based on the award-winning novella by literary icon Joyce Carol Oates. A Jeffrey Dahmer-esque serial killer attacks his last victim. Or does he?
Not long after he married, Yoo Shin has to enter the army leaving behind his wife Jil Rye and daughter Yong Bun. He is taken a prisoner of war in a battlefield. Without knowing this, Jil Rye and Yong-bun firmly hope Yoo Shin's safe return from the war while they overcome temptation, poverty, epidemics and even drought. But an influential man of their village rapes Jil Ryel and Yong Bun. Yoo decides to take revenge.
The Internationally award winning documentary film from Norway follows a 33 year old woman's life prior to serving a 7 year prison sentence for killing her own 66 year old father. He sexually abused her from she was 6 - 17 years old. He also abused her sister who became a drug addict and died of an overdose at the age of 38. The film brings us back to her childhood and describes how sexual abuse can go on for years without anyone is reacting to it. "My beloved child" deals with issues like physical, emotional and sexual abuse, domestic problems, suicide, drug issues, societies responsibility, individual responsibility, post effects/late consequences of childhood traumas. The films is primarily made - and edited - for children and youths, in order for them to understand and put words to abuse.
Mithun investigate kidnappers, killers and kidney smugglers.
RAPE JOKES is an hourlong standup special centered on sexual assault from a survivor’s perspective. Written and performed by Cameron Esposito, proceeds from the special benefit RAINN, the United States’ largest anti-sexual violence organization.
An estranged man deemed to be a beast vows to break free from the evil world and transform himself for his foster daughter.
In 2002, serial killer Patrice Alègre was sentenced to life imprisonment for five murders. Gendarme Roussel, the main investigator of this case, believes that he will make him confess to other unsolved crimes in Toulouse. Two ex-prostitutes give a series of names of presumed accomplices of the killer, among them Dominique Baudis, then president of the CSA. He decides to face the case alone. Around him, it is silence: not an official support of his political family. Almost twenty years later, we return to the Baudis affair to try to understand it, with the testimonies of Pierre and Benjamin Baudis, his sons, François Hollande, Camille Pascal and the main protagonists.
Noodles og hans ven Max har siden opvæksten i New Yorks jødiske bydel været sammen om småtyverier, smuglerier og røverier. I forbudstidens USA har de kronede dage, men alligevel forråder Noodles Max og deres kammerater og går under jorden. 35 år senere trækker det op til skandale omkring handelsminister Bailey, og Noodles møder nogen, han ikke har set i mange år.
Danny Vinyard ser op til sin storebror Derek, som sidder i fængsel for et racistisk dobbeltmord. For at opnå Dereks kærlighed og respekt prøver Danny at avancere i de nynazistiske kredse, som Derek færdedes i, før han blev fængslet. Derek bliver løsladt, men fængslet har givet ham et nyt syn på tilværelsen. Spørgsmålet er så, om det nynazistiske miljø vil slippe grebet om Derek - og Danny.