Film - While awaiting justice

Film - While awaiting justice

director's note


Talking about violence against women, and doing it through cinema, might seem obvious and already seen. Yet sensitizing the consciences not only of those who suffered and those who might suffer, but also those who should help it is never useless. Working for “Doppia Difesa” was an opportunity, a fortune that had to be grasped. We agreed to be hard, direct, true, without sweetening, looking reality in the face. A choice of courage shared immediately with Michelle Hunziker and Giulia Bongiorno and then with the actors.

With this short, we wanted to show that we must always line up in any place and in any situation where human beings are forced to suffer suffering and humiliation. Neutrality favors the oppressor, never the victim. Silence helps the executioner, never tortured.

There is a phrase by Marilyn Monroe that struck me: "There is a moment when you have to decide: either you are the princess waiting to be saved or you are the warrior who saves herself. I believe I have already chosen: I have saved myself ".