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Synopsis
As a child in Kenya, the filmmaker Beryl Magoko was subjected to a life-threatening ritual of which many girls become victims even today. At the time, “female circumcision” – a friendly, barely adequate term for the genital mutilation she endured with horrible pain – seemed to her like something that was an integral part of growing up. Today she knows that it doesn’t have to be that way. Knowledge alone doesn’t help her, so she meets other victims who, like her, waver between anger and shame and still suffer from the procedure decades later.With her personal and highly political film, Beryl Magoko sets out on a journey that leads her both into the past and the future. Strikingly frank, but without anger, she confronts her own family with questions and reproaches. At the same time she is facing the decision whether to undergo reconstructive surgery and begin a new chapter in her life. (DOK Leipzig, Luc-Carolin Ziemann)
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Director of photography
- Editor (Cut)Fani Schoinopoulou (BFS)
- Sound
- Sound Design
- Original Score
Festivals/awards
2018DOK Leipzig
Nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize, the Film Prize Leipziger Ring and the Young Eyes Film Award
IDFA Amsterdam
2019
FIFDH Human Right Filmfestival in Genf
"One World" Human Right Filmfestival in Bukarest
Berlin Feminist Film Week
IFFF Dortmund | Köln
megaherz Student Award - 34 DOK.fest Munich
nominated for German Documentary Award 2019 - 3 SWR DOKU FESTIVAL
Winner of STZ Leserjury Prize 2019 – 3 SWR DOKU FESTIVAL
Production Company
Cast & Crew
Beryl MagokoJule Katinka Cramer
Fani Schoinopoulou (BFS)
Malin Schmid, Johannes von Barsewisch
Tim Elzer
Fatoumata Diawara, Matthias Wittwer (Matt Weiss), Lennart Saathoff
