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2015 | Color | 100:00

Intimate Battles is the story of five women from different countries who have lived domestic violence, their fight to face it, survived it and overcome it. It is a slide of life of what violence has done to them, how it has broken their lives, in the place that was supposed to be the most safe and lovable: their own homes.

 


Direction: Gajá; Lucía
Script: Gajá; Lucía
Production: Herranz Fanjul; Rodrigo
Photography: Bellver; Marc
Sound: Cristina; Gajá; Lucía, Esquerra, et al.
Music: Heiblum; Leonardo, Lieberman; Jacobo
Participation year at FICM: 2015

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Intimate battles is the story of 5 women from different countries who have survived domestic violence. Their fight to face it not only against their partners but also the society and their government.

It is a slide of life of what violence has done to them, how it has broken their lives, in the place that's supposed to be the most safe and lovable: their own homes.

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