A special screening of the film “She Said” will be held at the cinema “Kino Citadele” on December 12 at 19:00. After watching the film, there will be a discussion about the #EsArī movement in Latvia.
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As “Delphi” informs the organizers, the publisher of the literary magazine “Punctum”, writer, curator of the exhibition and promoter of the #EsArī story series Laura Brokāne, publicist, journalist and author of the #EsArī story Agra Lieģe-Doležko, artist and The art critic Rasa Jansone, publicist, and the writer Ilmārs Šlāpins and the author of the exhibition and digital platform “Museum of Material Evidence” Laura Stašāne will participate in the discussion. The discussion will be led by Linda Curika, lecturer and publicist at LU.
According to the organizers, statistics show that every third woman in Latvia experiences violence in her lifetime. Furthermore, the problem is likely to be much greater, because half of women who have experienced violence have not told anyone about it.
In order to promote public understanding of the problem also in a sexual context, encourage victims to tell their experiences and make society as a whole recognize the need to limit the abuser’s permissiveness, the magazine “Punctum” has joined the #MeToo (#EsArī) earlier this year, which had not really happened in Latvia until then, inviting women working in the creative sphere to submit documentary stories about the experience of sexual violence.
After the publication of the stories, discussions on social networks, public backlash and frequent blame for the actions of victims of sexual violence, which is also regularly seen in attitudes towards domestic violence, widespread in Latvia, show that we must continue to talk about violence and the structures of society that make it possible and try to justify it, because only awareness-raising will make it possible to change these structures, the organizers underline.
The film “She Said” tells the story of the research and publications of two New York Times journalists, Jodi Cantor and Megan Tovey, who started the #MeToo movement in the United States and around the world and revealed the truth about the known but hidden decades theme of sexual harassment of women behind the scenes of the Hollywood film industry. “She Said” is an inspiring story about courage, the courage to speak up and demand justice, while changing the world around us.
The director of the film is Maria Schrader. The cast includes Academy Award nominee Carrie Mulligan and Emmy nominee Zoe Kazan.
