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The unsilensed voice

A group of women and men who suffered sexual abuse during their childhood sits raise their voice and narrate in first person their personal struggle stories.In times of movements such as #MeToo, their voices are tools both for the visibility of the problem, such as the support of other people.

  • Valeria Sartori
    Director
  • Valeria Sartori
    Writer
  • Valeria Sartori
    Producer
  • Nicolás Munzel Camaño
    Producer
    Executive producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    La voz propia
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Human rights
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 10 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    February 2, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    Argentina
  • Country of Filming:
    Argentina
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • International Children´s Rights Films Festival
    Bursa
    Turkey
    November 20, 2020
    Best Feature Film
  • FINCADH Costa Rica
    San José
    Costa Rica
    December 6, 2020
  • MIC Género
    México DF
    Mexico
    October 17, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Icaro International Film Festival
    Guatemala
    Guatemala
    November 11, 2019
  • CATAPULTA-Festival Nacional de Artes Audiovisuales y Derechos Humanos
    Tucuman
    Argentina
    December 1, 2019
  • Human Rights International Film Festival
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    May 30, 2019
    International Premiere
    SIGNIS Award + RAFMA Award
  • Bolivar Festival
    Bolivar, Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    August 20, 2019
    Best Documentary
  • VII Festival against women violence - Jaen Spain
    Jaen
    Spain
    November 8, 2019
Director Biography - Valeria Sartori

Director and graphic designer. She made the short films: "She says she does not know" (2009), "I love her and I wait for her" (2009) and "Still awake" (2010), selected in more than 20 international festivals. She received the prize "Violence against women" from La Mujer y el Cine. ""I love her and I wait for her" was chosen among the 100 best short films of the year by the magazine Fotogramas. "The Insilensed voice" premiered in 2019. She is working on his next documentary, called "Public Bodies".

Directora (Enerc) y diseñadora gráfica. Realizó los cortometrajes: “Dice que no sabe” (2009), “Le quiero y espero” (2009) y “Aún despierta” (2010), seleccionados en más de 20 festivales internacionales. Recibió de La Mujer y el Cine el premio “Violencia contra la mujer”. “Le quiero y espero“ fue elegido entre los 100 mejores cortometrajes del año por la revista Fotogramas. “La voz propia” se estrena en 2019. Se encuentra trabajando en su siguiente documental, llamado "Los cuerpos públicos".

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Director Statement

"The insilensed voice" is a documentary made collecting the voices of men and women who suffered sexual abuses at any moment of their childhood. A taboo subject, uncomfortable, that when we started thinking about it, the #MeToo movement had not even started, which finally managed to put the issue of sexual abuse on the public agenda. Most of their stories are examples of struggle, generally solitary and tenacious, against a system that in most cases remains elusive and full of prejudices. All their stories reveal a path full of injustice, starting with the impossibility of speaking and telling what had happened to them, as what happened to them when they wanted to denounce, finding that their cases had been prescribed in most of the cases, due to the time elapsed, or directly with their abusers being acquitted, by a Judicial System that still can not find a way to repair the victims. I think it is a necessary film, since five new cases of children who are sexually abused only in Argentina are detected per day, while at the same time it is the crime that is the least reported.