My favorite film from last month’s Speechless Film Festival is My Life I Don’t Want, created by Nyan Kyal Say. The appeal of My Life I Don’t Want lies in its simplicity in story and style, though that simplicity also belies much complexity about girls’ experiences in Myanmar and elsewhere. My Life I Don’t Want…
Tag: It’s a Girl
‘It’s a Girl’ Uncovers the Horrors of Gendercide
It’s a Girl opens with a field dotted with small mounds. There are eight of them. An Indian woman explains, “I just strangled it soon after it was born.” The “it” she refers to is her own daughter. The woman killed each of her eight daughters after birth and buried each in that field. Directed…