Mon enfant, ma soeur, songe à la douleur
Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir
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Khadia Diallo,sénégalaise, vit en Belgique depuis 15 ans ; elle raconte son histoire, une vie de femme mutilée sexuellement. La prise de conscience de cette difficulté de vie sur le plan de la santé psychologique et physique a déclenché une forme de révolte face à cette pratique traditionnelle. Khadia a pris son avenir en main et a trouvé la force de s'investir dans différentes actions pour aider ses sœurs et surtout prévenir les risques de mutilation chez les petites filles.Elle a fondé à Bruxelles le GAMS ( Groupement pour l'Abolition des Mutilations Sexuelles féminines ). Le film donne aussi la parole à d'autres femmes et filles mutilées.
« Parce que je crois que l’évolution des mentalités et des traditions sont une nécessité universelle et que le respect de l’intégrité physique des personnes sont un enjeu fondamental dans la lutte pour l’égalité des hommes et des femmes, j’ai voulu faire ce film. Et témoigner du courage de ces femmes à parler, à exprimer ce qu’elles endurent tous les jours afin que les générations à venir ne subissent plus des pratiques de mutilations. »Violaine de Villers
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'I wanted to make this film because I think that the evolution of mentalities and traditions is a universal necessity and that the respect for the individual's physical integrity is a key challenge in the fight for gender equality. I wanted to show the courage of these women who tell their daily suffering, and in a way try and prevent generations to come from being subject to this kind of mutilation again.'
Khadia Diallo is a Senegalese woman who emigrated to Belgium. In her country she suffered the most serious sexual mutilation, i.e infibulation. She discovered in Belgium that these mutilations did not have anything to do with Islam, that they were an attack to women's physical integrity, dignity, right to happiness and pleasure. She founded the GAMS (Gathering for the Abolition of Female Sexual Mutilations) in Brussels.
The film presents us Khadia and other mutilated young girls and women: her daughter who was excised in Senegal in her absence, a young woman from the Ivory Coast who explains the role of those practices in the submission of women, a young traumatized girl who can not chase away the image of the "lady" who wounded her. Exchanges between African and Belgian women - doctor, psychologist, social assistant- linked to the GAMS, enable us to understand the concrete meaning of these mutilations, their tragic consequences, and the answers one can try and bring.
These African women and a man who lost his 17 years old daughter and who thinks she was victim of excision, tell their revolt and determination, but also help us understand why, in their native country, it is still so difficult to fight against those practices.
Khadia's daughter says: "I have a little boy now, but the day I have a girl I swear no one will touch her".
« Parce que je crois que l’évolution des mentalités et des traditions sont une nécessité universelle et que le respect de l’intégrité physique des personnes sont un enjeu fondamental dans la lutte pour l’égalité des hommes et des femmes, j’ai voulu faire ce film. Et témoigner du courage de ces femmes à parler, à exprimer ce qu’elles endurent tous les jours afin que les générations à venir ne subissent plus des pratiques de mutilations. »Violaine de Villers
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'I wanted to make this film because I think that the evolution of mentalities and traditions is a universal necessity and that the respect for the individual's physical integrity is a key challenge in the fight for gender equality. I wanted to show the courage of these women who tell their daily suffering, and in a way try and prevent generations to come from being subject to this kind of mutilation again.'
Khadia Diallo is a Senegalese woman who emigrated to Belgium. In her country she suffered the most serious sexual mutilation, i.e infibulation. She discovered in Belgium that these mutilations did not have anything to do with Islam, that they were an attack to women's physical integrity, dignity, right to happiness and pleasure. She founded the GAMS (Gathering for the Abolition of Female Sexual Mutilations) in Brussels.
The film presents us Khadia and other mutilated young girls and women: her daughter who was excised in Senegal in her absence, a young woman from the Ivory Coast who explains the role of those practices in the submission of women, a young traumatized girl who can not chase away the image of the "lady" who wounded her. Exchanges between African and Belgian women - doctor, psychologist, social assistant- linked to the GAMS, enable us to understand the concrete meaning of these mutilations, their tragic consequences, and the answers one can try and bring.
These African women and a man who lost his 17 years old daughter and who thinks she was victim of excision, tell their revolt and determination, but also help us understand why, in their native country, it is still so difficult to fight against those practices.
Khadia's daughter says: "I have a little boy now, but the day I have a girl I swear no one will touch her".
