"PUNCTURED HOPE" (2009)

Feature Film "PUNCTURED HOPE" (2009) - Selected Scenes

Director, Co-Writer, Executive Producer BRUNO PISCHIUTTA
Producer, Executive Producer DARIA TRIFU

SYNOPSIS: The story takes place in todays Ghana. According to the TROKOSI customary practice, if someone commits a crime, traditional leaders order that a young girl from that family be sent to the shrine as a form of atonement. The chief priest and his entourage genitally mutilate and sexually abuse the girls. Against all odds, the protagonist of the story escapes the shrine. As the film follows her life from the age of innocence to premature adulthood, the viewers get to see a beautiful showcase of the real and very animated African life in a typical village.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Africa
• Ghana
• Trokosi
• slavery
• slave
• virgin
• sex abuse
• genital mutilation
• shrine
• rain forest
• Bruno Pischiutta
• Daria Trifu
• Toronto Pictures
• social films

[Elisabetta833]

It is great!!Much love!!

[congobigp]

and there will be people to defend such practices in the name of traditions.

[Shazzie2]

Seeing this here is truly an eye-opening experience! The horrors that go on today! It's unfathomable, but it's truth. It saddens me and this is why I am raising awareness for this crime of violence against women. If you're not moved to tears, then you have no conscience, and heart.

Stella aka shazzie2

[silvanastrufaldi]

Bravo!!! Es maravilloso mirar la madre África, y ver su cultura, saber su dolor... así quien sabe los ciegos del castillo abren los ojos ante el grito de los sumergidos....

Silvana Strufaldi

[Elisabetta833]

Very interesting video!!!!

[Prethenie]

"Obviously Exceptional." Beyond words. Looking forward to seeing this. ASAP! Thank you!

[Prethenie]

Deep within the heart,, one knows what is loving and what is not. Beyond any cultural belief. "WE ARE ONE!"

[imeldamaguire09]

Daria and Bruno

It is so fascinating to follow the deep truths of humanity that you uncover from the dark, depths of ancient civilizations and their rituals.

Your movies are most thought provoking, and informative and life changing for so many audiences.

Thank you for sharing your mysterious world with the rest of us who never venture out of our safe worlds for this deep, and true revelation of such profound cultures and differences within humanity.

~*LOVE ALWAYS*~