Miguel Hurdato chooses to make a documentary film to expose his childhood sexual abuse by the monk of the Catholic Church. The documentary based on many victims of sexual abuse. If the story is told not by one person but by many victims and all sides of the events are included in the narrative, it…
Ben Meliha Yıldız. Five years ago, in 5 Harfliler, it was I who wrote about the domestic sexual abuse she experienced under the pseudonym Dilara Sert. It’s time to take off the pseudonym. I’m not the one who should be hiding. I haven’t felt the need to hide since the time I said “My father…
I had to get my childhood out of the cellar to could leave Omelas. It wasn’t enough for some to bear the guilt of being human in order to leave Omelas. The lock on the cellar was the taboo. I decided to talk about the taboo so I could unlock it. I chose to speak…
I want to forgive this country. I want to forgive Even though there is no such request from the country, nor do I have that kind of place. For me to heal, for us to heal. To be able to forgive…To forgive means to face the culprit, then the culprit pleading guilty and ultimately getting…
The film opens with Dogma95 certificate. It follows Dogma95’s ten must-have rules. It’s the first film of the movement. Dogma is a state of mind that accepts the ideas and principles put forward to be true and as the absolute truth without any research, seeking evidence, reviewing, criticizing, or discussing. Just like taboos. Director…
Meliha Yildiz’s Sacred Solitude” is published by Red Cat Publications. “The victims don’t shut up, the problem is people don’t want to hear it,” Yıldız said. Eser Demirkan DUVAR – Sacred Solitude, published by Kırmızı Kedi Publications in the last days of 2021, focuses on the issue of domestic sexual abuse. We talked about her experiences…
“All this time I’ve been so excited for nothing, I knocked on my parents’ door in my dreams many times and waited for them to open, I expected my story to be accepted, to be accepted, let in and I was disappointed, I was sad, I stood on the threshold and knocked on their door,…
A woman who was sexually abused by her father for a long time as a child no longer wants to cover up what she was put through. For her stolen childhood, for her to be able to live today. So that no child will ever experience this again. Can you tell us what kind of…
The story of A.A., who was sexually abused by his father from the age of eight to seventeen, neglected by his family and surroundings despite revealing his childhood experiences, and who we know through his six-year struggle for justice in the press. How many interviews has it been A…? I’m not counting anymore. I think…
An interview with an “eight-year-old survivor” who was sexually abused by a neighbor for a year, remembering her/his experiences for the first time thirty-nine years later. Can you tell us about your childhood neighborhood first? Worker’s neighborhood… The women are at home. Not many women are working. Men usually work. Classic working families… We children…