Women of Freedom (+ VAWG: Resistance & Survival Shorts)

This session will explore and celebrate women’s global resistance to violence against women and girls (VAWG) through 3 films that challenge the notions that there is one right way to respond to VAWG and that there is one kind of survivor.

Nesaa Alhoria (Women of Freedom) (58 mins, 2017, dir. Abeer Zeibak Haddad) - This film tells the stories of women murdered in the name of ‘honour’ within Arab and Palestinian communities in Palestine and Israel, focusing on the social and political contexts in which the women were killed. The director travels through Palestine and Israel collecting t...