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- DirectorBabetida SadjoStarsPriscillia AdabeJohn DobrynineMireille Mbayoko-YabaJudith finally dares to break her silence and seek justice for the rape that she suffered as a child. She bitterly discovers that a trial will not take place. Thirsting for justice, she confronts the pedophile who shattered her life.
- DirectorBrigitte SauriolStarsMadeleine ArsenaultLothaire BluteauJimmy BondA family on vacation must deal with its long-held dark secret when the traumatized eldest daughter tries to break the silence and make her father stop sexually abusing her. Unfortunately, that may prove to be next to impossible.
- DirectorCelesta DavisStarsCelesta DavisEllen DavisKaren DavisCelesta and Karen Davis grew up in a loving family. They shared many wonderful childhood moments and, at the time, thought it all was normal. But when Karen and Celesta were molested in 1978, little was being done about sexual abuse. Their parents' lack of action was neither questioned nor challenged, including years of continued social contact with the perpetrator, his wife and their two young children. This made for some not-so-normal memories. Twenty-five years later, feeling unresolved, they begin their quest to find the man who took advantage of their innocence and to ask him something that has haunted them for almost their entire life: "Why?" Director Davis takes one of the most personal journeys to tell her and her family's remarkable story, exploring the inner depths of a woman's psyche, which has been harmed, but refuses to be broken. A testament to the fragility and strength of the human spirit, "Awful Normal" explores the ripple effect of a single action across generations and families and puts these women literally face to face with their demons.
- DirectorAkhim DevSimon NashtStarsSimone GescheitThis documentary follows the work of Task Force Argos, a special division of the Australian Federal Police, as they investigate the global networks exploiting children by posting their photos and videos on the dark web.
- DirectorJ. Gary MitchellPresents the experiences of three women who were victims of incest in their childhood and records their suggestions for helping others. Severe depression, chronic drug abuse, and suicidal tendencies plagued these victims of sexual abuse, none of whom could expect comfort from their families.
- DirectorAmanda StoddardStarsKathy JohnsonKim JohnsonKristy JohnsonNO CRIME IN SIN is a story about confronting a traumatic past and reclaiming the future. Kristy and Kathy Johnson were sexually abused by their father over the course of decades. Because the Johnsons were active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church), clergy knew about this recurring abuse, did nothing to stop it, and ended up putting countless other children at risk as a result. Since the late 1980s, Kristy Johnson and her siblings have been plagued by unanswered questions about why their father never served time in prison and why the Mormon Church never intervened to help them. So in 2016, Kristy and Kathy, were joined by their brother Kim on a road trip to confront their father. What followed was a cathartic encounter between two survivors and the man who abused them -- an unraveling of past mysteries in a last-ditch effort for justice. This portrait reflects the turmoil imposed on the lives of these siblings by the selfish, criminal acts of their father, and their emotional, lifelong search for hope with a broken compass.
- DirectorLeanna BorsellinoJames W. HeadrickStarsSasha AndreevCynthia BorsellinoDan BorsellinoIn a tale of twisted sex, religion and family, a mother and daughter team up - first to overcome their severe differences, and then to take steps to end a curse that has plagued their family for generations.
- DirectorShira Clara WinterAnat ZuriaStarsAharon TrietelConventional sins is a film exposing sexual abuse of children in the ultra-Orthodox community: A decade after he was banished from the Hasidic community he grew up in, Meilech reopens the diary he wrote when he was 15. The diary describes the abuse he went through at the hands of a network of ultra-Orthodox pedophiles. Together with a group of young actors who themselves grew up in the Hasidic community, Meilech attempts to reconstruct parts of the diary and tell his story, which the Hasidic community did everything to silence. Winner of Best Documentary in The Jerusalem Film Festival.
- DirectorGregg ArakiStarsBrady CorbetJoseph Gordon-LevittElisabeth ShueTwo pre-adolescent boys both experienced a strange event and later it affects their lives in different ways. One becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous prostitute, while the other retreats into a reclusive fantasy of alien abduction.
- DirectorJette Bitten GlibstrupA mother and a daughter struggle to climb the Swiss Alps while they dig into a past that the mother has spent years suppressing. The daughter was sexually abused by her stepfather as a child and lately she has begun to doubt whether her mom knew what was going on. The daughter's persistence in trying to make her mom remember and take responsibility puts the two women's relation to a hard test.
- DirectorGali BenshimolStarsDouglas Everett DavisGeorge FearPhoebe RothschildRose, a 12-year-old girl, experiences sexual abuse within her family, a fact that reflects on every aspect of her life, focusing on current social issues.
- DirectorMichael HelgensStarsScott BlowSamantha CallisonAlicia S. Callison-SchurbonA troubled young man is confronted with the long term effects of sexual abuse and learns that his abuser has a new victim.
- DirectorFèlix Colomer VallèsStarsManuel BarberoToni BarberoJep BarcelóManuel Barbero, father of a sexual abuse victim, and Joaquin Benitez, the pederast who abuse the son of Manuel and 20 more children, are the main characters of this documentary. The director of the film approaches these key figures of this story with a work of journalistic investigation. For the first time, a pederast speaks and confesses with his face uncovered in a documentary.
- DirectorStephen VidanoStarsBrenna AbrilTroy AlanMaya Faith ClaridgeSexual abuse is not only about the physical act of sex, but about how the abuser exerting power and control over the victim. Personal friend of the family and Mayor of the City, Anthony grooms young Abby through years of trust and then uses that trust to violate her. To protect her family, Abby tries to remain silent but she cannot get over what has happened. Breaking down in the arms of her unsuspecting father, Abby tells him what his best friend has done to her; and together they embark on a quest of healing.
- DirectorMax ToscanoStarsLua DibbleRebel LoveZola SaraiLaura struggles against a chronic depression caused by her father's sexual abuse during her childhood. After spending her childhood in orphanage, she now fights the ghosts of her past on her own as she tries to rewrite her own destiny.
- DirectorNicole Emilíana MendezA short documentary about the more intimate, less visible outcomes of enduring repeated childhood sexual abuse. The film focuses on one survivor's reflections while expert interviews place emphasis on the importance of parental support.
- DirectorGerardo J. Betancourt AmyStarsLucienne HernándezMonique SanchezRoy Sánchez-VahamondesTita is a 12 year old girl that takes care of her little brothers because her mother is an alcoholic. She is being sexually abused by her mother's boyfriend, who is a great man in the eyes of everybody in the neighborhood. These particular day she takes matters in her owns hands, will she put an end to these?
- DirectorThomas N KingStarsDereque WhitursFormer Alvin Ailey Dancer, Dereque Whiturs, talks about his his 30 year struggle with Aids and being sexually abused by his father and Uncle's as a child. This is an Amazing and compelling story of how the will to live combined with the power of a dream resulted into the changing of a community.
- DirectorJimmy SirenoGemma BishopStarsDrea CastroVictoria GraceChris BordenA young girl confesses to her mother that she was sexually abused by her father. The story deals with the mother's reaction to the news and the heavy choices that she must make.
- DirectorMenachem RothStarsMenachem RothA self-portrait where the camera becomes a weapon of entrapment as well as an instrument of redemption in the painful chain of sexual abuse.
- DirectorVictoria HayfordStarsMark Forester EvansJestyn PhillipsAnne StaffordFor thirty years, guilt and resentment has held together the relationship of Michael and his father, Albert, with whom he still lives in the family home. When Michael starts a relationship with his boss Valerie and struggles with intimacy, he blurts out a secret he has not revealed to anyone outside his family in decades. Learning that Michael was sexually abused as a child, Valerie rejects him and pushes an already volatile Michael into confronting his past and the part which Albert played in it.
- DirectorJess KellyStarsPaul BakibingaBatul Sharif AhmadFath al-Rahman Al-HamdaniA BBC News Arabic investigation has uncovered systemic child abuse inside Islamic schools in Sudan, with boys as young as five years old routinely chained, shackled and beaten by the "sheikhs", or religious men in charge of the schools.
- DirectorMercedes ChristianStarsCarla LopezMercedes ChristianLino FerrerBLIND JUSTICE is the ruthless story of Paulina, a mother facing a relentless struggle to demonstrate to justice that her children has been sexually abused by their father. An story of difficulties faced by the incapacity of the law and tearing situations happening to defenseless children victims of domestic violence. Based on true events.
- DirectorTone Grøttjord-GlenneEmilie is 18 and carries a childhood with sexual abuse and fear, from which she wants to face. But all she meets is a wall of silence. Now she's grown up, and wants to live an ordinary life, but can she go on without being seen or heard?
- DirectorDanny Ben-Moshe'Code of Silence' is an award winning one-hour observational documentary that follows the parallel journeys of a fervently Orthodox Jewish father and his now-secular son, after the son breaks the code of silence in Melbourne's Chabad-Lubavitch community going public with his story about being sexually abused as a student. Manny Waks demands the perpetrators be brought to justice, as well as the rabbis, whom he claims covered it up. His father Zephaniah, who claims he has been virtually excommunicated for informing secular authorities, demands his name be publicly cleared. But what price will the father and son pay for blowing the whistle on the leaders of this powerful Jewish sect? This is a deeply personal journey filled with intimate, emotionally charged and candid behind-the-scenes moments of two people waging the fight of their lives.