{"id":2884,"date":"2021-03-17T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2021-03-12T11:18:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T10:18:43","slug":"women-the-state-and-film-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2021\/03\/17\/women-the-state-and-film-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Women, the State and Film Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Film Festival Announcement by Khalid Ali<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 25th Human Rights Watch Film Festival, UK Digital Edition, Barbican Cinema On Demand, 18\u201326 March 2021, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ff.hrw.org\/london\"><strong>https:\/\/ff.hrw.org\/london<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reproductive rights and the right to family, survivors of rape and\u00a0access to\u00a0healthcare\u00a0are the focus of several\u00a0documentaries\u00a0in\u00a0the 25th edition of\u00a0Human Rights Watch Film Festival taking place from\u00a018-26 March, presented exclusively on the Barbican Cinema On Demand platform.<\/p>\n<p>Two documentaries champion the\u00a0resilience and resistance of the women protecting reproductive rights. The opening night film, <strong><em>The 8th<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Aideen Kane, Lucy Kennedy, and Maeve O\u2019Boyle, follows veteran campaigner Ailbhe Smyth and self-described glitter-activist Andrea Horan as they chart a bold strategy of grassroots activism to engineer the impossible and carry a traditionally conservative and religious electorate over the line to extend rights to women seeking an abortion, in the lead up to the historic 2018 Irish referendum on abortion. In Erika Cohn\u2019s\u00a0<strong><em>Belly of the Beast<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0former prisoner Kelli Dillon and her radical lawyer Cynthia Chandler are bravely waging a legal battle against the US prison system to eradicate the hidden practice of illegal involuntary sterilisations in California\u2019s women\u2019s prisons. 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Similarly, Patricia Wiesse Risso\u2019s\u00a0<strong><em>Mujer de Soldado<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0provides space for\u00a0Magda Surichaqui C\u00f3ndor\u00a0and her friends, remarkable Peruvian Indigenous women, to process their own healing as survivors of rape from the hands of army members three decades prior.\u00a0Magda was a teenager when soldiers arrived in her small Peruvian village in 1984. Sent to root out members of the Shining Path, soldiers of the Peruvian army used their power to rape and humiliate local women, leaving them shunned by their own communities, often with children in tow. Three decades later, Magda has joined a number of other women in bringing charges against their abusers\u2014with the trial still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>State accountability is also sought in Maxx Caicedo and Nelson G. 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