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Rokudenashiko with her artwork
“For me it was a very first time in my life that I cried during shooting.” — Barbara Miller, the director.
women sitting there all over Africa, realizing what they are doing to little girls. “It is good to see that when you dare to talk about heavy topics and taboo topics, then people realize what it means, weather it is sexual harassment or rape or FGM. For me it was the very first time in my life that I cried during shooting. “ The reasons why female genital mutilations are performed vary from one region to another, not only in Africa, but all over the world. FGM is associated with cultural ideals of femininity, which include the notion that girls are clean after removal of body parts that are considered unclean, unfeminine or male. Still today, Every 11th second, a girl is mutilated. In Somalia, 98% of women are gone through the practice (Unicef, 2016).
When starting with the idea of the documen-
tary, the goal was to create awareness. As she started with the documentary, she didn’t know
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how it is going to turn out about men’s position in the movie.“When the trailer was out, there was some negativity in the internet. But when the film came out, it changed.” There is a lot of positive feedback about “#Female Pleasure” documentary, which is also very important for the protagonists, because some of them got a positive feeling for the first time about their work regarding to this documentary. Positive feedback came from Catholic church. Also, half a year after this documentary came out, the former nun Doris Wagner was contacted by the Orthodox church to finally listen to her story. During that time, Pope Francis also admitted for the first time that there have been violations by priests and bishops happening against women and things have to change.
“I finally realize what it is to be a woman and I can see that there is something I can do to be part of this change.” — a male spectator from one of the screenings.
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