Happening
A student becomes pregnant and wants to have an abortion - but that is forbidden in France in the 1960s. In her film adaptation of Annie Ernaux's book "The Event," Audrey Diwan tells the story of a young woman's attempt to take control of her own body.
Lingui
An uneducated, hard-working woman in Chad's capital, N'Djamena, emancipates herself from a male society that tells her what to do. She stands by her teenage daughter who wants to terminate her pregnancy, although religion and the law forbid her to do so.
La Branlette Du Petit Matin
With the aid of a chocolate cake recipe the Youtuber Marie Marquise explains that the right to an abortion in France is fixated by the "Loi Veil" (Abortion Legalisation Law), but that other countries like Poland today have to be questioned on their rights to abort.
Corpus delicti - 20 years rights to abortion in Belgium
A documentary about the history of abortion in Belgium, and the development in Europe since 2010. In 1990, the abortion in Belgium which exempted from punishment. The development is documented in six chapters to 5 minutes each, with archival footage and eyewitnesses. Especially the public debate in Belgium, Europe and worldwide on this issue will be shown.
One Sings, the Other Doesn't
Pauline (Valérie Mairesse), a schoolgirl studying for her baccalaureate, wanders into a gallery and recognizes an old friend, Suzanne (Thérèse Liotard), in one of the photographs displayed. Suzanne has two children with the photographer and is expecting a third which she cannot afford to keep. In order to help raise funds for an abortion, Pauline lies to her parents about a school trip, and when …
Let abortion be quiet
38 years after the law authorizing abortion in France, the film attempts to show the everyday work in the center of the family planning Kremlin Bicetre Hospital, to enable women to be welcomed in the best possible conditions. Working in a family planning centre is not a business like any other. Heirs / heiresses of MLAC (Freedom Movement of abortion and contraception) professional (the) s aggrega…
Women's Voices: France
This is the story of Juliette who, just like millions of other women around the world, decided to have an abortion following an unintended pregnancy. Juliette, who lives in France, describes the challenges she faced in trying to find accurate and unbiased information about abortion, and she shares her thoughts on the role of men in the abortion process.
“I decided to look for the official infor…
Women's Voices: Cameroon
This is the story of Michelle who had an abortion in relative secrecy in Cameroon, a country that criminalizes abortion under most circumstances. Michelle shares her feelings and experience of having an abortion without the support of her family, and her thoughts on how the criminal law should be changed to guarantee women access to safe abortion services.
“I was sad, extremely sad, at having t…
I decided to have an abortion
Since October 2002 abortions were illegal until the 12th week of a pregnancy. What does the decision to the termination of a pregnancy mean to the psyche of a woman? For her body? For her sexuality? For her fertility?
In Suisse every year approximately 11.000 women decide to have an abortion. For the first time in history a TV team was allowed to film the "daily abortions" in a big, gynecologic…
