Esperanza and Teodula ask for justice in rural Peru, after being forcibly sterilized more than 18 years ago, during the Fujimori government. The Quipu Project is a telephone line that allows victims from all over the country to share their shocking testimonies, to avoid impunity for those responsible.
A case of using technology and video to mobilize communities affected by human rights violations by governments. More than 300,000 Peruvian citizens, predominantly poor and indigenous women, were subjected to forced sterilization. The program has been widely described as ethnic cleansing.
- Special session with the double screening of the short films Terror Contagion and Quipu Project. Both short films deepen on how two communities have suffered abuse by governments and corporations, but also how they have used technology to confront it.
- Door opening, 9:00 PM
- Starting time, 9:30 PM
- Free access with prior registration.
Docs Hedy Lamarr 2024
Cinema, science, technology and feminism join hands in the Documentary Film Series Docs Hedy Lamarr 2024, which takes place at the Canòdrom - Center for Digital and Democratic Innovation during the month of June. In this fourth edition, we explore the physical effects of technology beyond digital life: from how violence is exercised on feminized bodies, to how people reappropriate technology and organize to claim their rights.
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