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Animated reality takes you through the ordeals of gender-based violence
Updated On: 22 September, 2018 09:00 AM IST | Mumbai | Snigdha Hasan
An animation artist and a filmmaker from Mumbai mentored students in Yangon to make docu-animations on stories of gender-based violence. Go watch their creation
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In Kayah Lily, a 13-year-old recalls the trauma of being raped in the woods and how with support from family and teachers, made a new life for herself
A Bumblebee flits through the undergrowth in a dense forest, and the frame of a cute-as-a-button bunny ambling in follows. But soon enough, vermilion flames clog the background, and you know that you are not watching a children’s cartoon movie — not even a violent one. A moving voiceover of a 13-year-old takes you to the Kayah State in Myanmar, where she recalls growing up amidst sounds of gunfire exchanged between military and ethnic armed groups. On her way home from school one day, she meets a man who lures her to the woods and rapes her.
Limbo is the story of a 19-year-old woman who is raped by her uncle, and the struggle to break her silence and bring up a son born from the sexual assault
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