Annette Mari Olsen, Katia Forbert Petersen, Denmark, 2014
61 min.DK/Documentary
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Katia Forbert Petersen and Annette Mari Olsen have kept in contact with a group of women who stranded in Denmark in 1992. The women had fled from Bosnia, from the war. They spoke about their experiences, their pain and the fear they had for the future — for themselves and for their children. This was the first time the directors were confronted with mass rape as a war strategy.
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