We Don’t Talk

We Don’t Talk

71' 2022
dir.: Marjolein Busstra

Young therapists and their patients - teenagers involved in various forms of sexual abuse. 

Four young characters in a therapeutic process try to work through the trauma of sexual abuse. Despite anger at their abusers, they are still unable to definitively cut themselves off from the environment in which they were harmed. The film offers intimate insight into the course of trauma therapy. We see the damage that sexual violence has wrought upon adolescent psyches with the ensuing difficulty to talk about their experiences. We observe how they break their internal resistance, facing the overwhelming sense of guilt and shame.

Marta Lityńska

Festivals
2022 Movies That Matter
free entry
71' 2022 Netherlands
Director
Marjolein Busstra
Cinematography
Marjolein Busstra, Dionne Cats
Editing
Saskia Kievits
Production
Halal
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