Private Frontline
The frontlines of war run through women’s bodies, homes, and memories. Three stories of women confronting violence, silence, and uncertainty in their own ways. In Tigray, survivors of sexual violence break their silence; in Iran, young filmmakers preserve images of protest and state violence; in Nagorno-Karabakh, a mother fights to hold on to life during a siege. Personal stories about the power of bearing witness, the responsibility to speak out, and the possibility of taking action even in the most difficult circumstances.

Memory Under Fire
What remains after war, disaster, and time have done their slow work? (Three films on the fragility of memory and the responsibility to preserve it. In Chornobyl, people work to save the cultural heritage of a vanishing world. In Kamal Aljafari’s parents’ home, images of the war in Gaza arrive through the television screen, and distance offers no shelter from loss when the news is bound up with personal tragedy. And Sarajevo’s former beauty queen returns to reclaim her own story from the image the war created of her. Three personal perspectives on how violence shapes memory, and on who has the right to tell the past.