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EXCISION

By Victoria VELLOPOULOU

INDIGO VIEW PRODUCTIONS LTD - as PROD

Social issues - Completed 2013

“Excision” examines the consequences of FGM (female genital mutilation) on the local communities of Kenya and demonstrates the effects of this action, on millions of girls and women worldwide.

Festivals
& Awards

London Greek Film Festival - United Kingdom 2014

Best Music Award

Chalkida Greek Documentary Festival - Greece 2014

2nd Prize

Ierapetra International Documentary Festival - Greece 2014

2nd Prize

Sguardi Altrove Italy 2014

Athens International Film Festival Greece 2014

Miradas Doc Canary Islands Spain 2014

Manya Human Rights International Film Festival 2014

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2015

Greek Panorama

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- Year of production
- 2013
- Genres
- Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- GREECE
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 55 mn
- Director(s)
- Victoria VELLOPOULOU
- Writer(s)
- Victoria VELLOPOULOU
- Producer(s)
- Ioanna DAVI (INDIGO VIEW PRODUCTIONS LTD), Dimitris XENAKIS (INDIGO VIEW PRODUCTIONS LTD), Vicky MARKOLEFA (ACTIONAID HELLAS)
- Synopsis
- ADULTHOOD. All children grow up. Become adults. In western societies people are considered adults when they reach the ages between 18 and 20. But every society has its own convictions, its own standards and its own balances. Which are very different from those of the western world.
  
  BODY. In Kenya, in the year 2014, girls from 6 to 15 years of age, are being “cut”. 85% of them undergo total mutilation of their external genitalia for non medical reasons. The mutilation comprises the excision of the clitoris, as well as of the inner and outer lips. Long before the completion of their growth, girls get in line, side by side, and undergo this operation, without any anesthetic or analgesic and under conditions of no hygiene. With the same blade, with no kind of sterilization, all of them will be “cut”. Some will die of bleeding, some will get HIV.
  
  SOUL. FGM is a turning point in the life of a woman. From the moment it happens, everything takes its course towards “life as an adult”. She will leave school, she will get married, she will serve her husband and meet all his needs. She will find her position in society. Convictions related to FGM are so deeply rooted that there is no cry for help and any show of discomfort is limited to the least.
  Which is the psychological limit where a conviction becomes oppression or even shreds into pieces a person’s soul (and body)?

EXCISION

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