Synopsis
Two young women used their own body as a war weapon by participating in a hunger strike in the Turkish prisons in the year 2000. This hunger strike was repressed in a bloody way by the army. Between portraits and archives images, a reflection on the resistance and the sacrifice of the individual in front of the violence of the State.
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- Director of photography : Clarisse Hahn
- Editor : Clarisse Hahn
- Sound recordist : Clarisse Hahn
- Producer : Clarisse Hahn
- Production manager : Clarisse Hahn
- Sound Mixer : Mikaël Barre
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Research - Experimental, Video art
- Themes : War, Justice, Utopie
- Production language : Turkish, Kurdish, French
- Production country : France
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This movie belongs to a series of three short movies named Our body is a weapon.
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