Limbo | WHO Health for All Film Festival 2020

The WHO introduces “Limbo” a story about a 19-year-old woman who is raped by her uncle, as part of their Health for All Film Festival 2020.

“Limbo” tells the powerful story of a 19-year-old woman who is raped at home in Kayin State by her uncle. Initially pressured by her uncle to remain silent and abort the child that resulted from the attack, she is still determined to obtain justice in order to bring up her young son in an equal society. This film by Saw Eh Doh Poe, Nann Win May Aye and Nwaye Zar Che Soe, from Maynmar, students from Yangon Film School based in Germany and Myanmar; won the GRAND PRIX of the animation films category of the Health for All Film Festival 2020, organized by the World Health Organization.
More info about jury, official selection and winners of the festival: https://www.who.int/film-festival
More info about maternal health: https://www.who.int/health-topics/maternal-health
More info about sexual violence and reproductive health: https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/en/
https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/violence/en/
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