War Babies (2002)
- Directed by
- Raymonde Provencher
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
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How it feels
A Canadian man returns to Bangladesh to understand his origins as the child of a wartime rape. The film also follows several other people from different conflicts, such as a Rwandan mother and a Bosnian woman, who have similar experiences.
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What happens
War Babies (French: War Babies, nés de la haine) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Raymonde Provencher and released in 2002. Centred on the prevalence of rape as a tool of war, the film focuses in large part on Ryan, an adopted Canadian man who is travelling back to his birthplace in Bangladesh to learn more about his history as the product of a Pakistani soldier raping a Bangladeshi woman during the Bangladesh Liberation War. The film also highlights the stories of Savera, a mother of seven children who were all murdered during the Rwandan genocide, who was then raped repeatedly when she tried to find safety; Nusreta, a Bosnian woman who was raped during the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s; Mrs. Chung, a Korean woman who became pregnant when the Japanese army forced her into serving as a comfort woman during World War II. She had a son, who recently discovered his father's true Japanese identity; and Hailing, a young woman who was the product of her mother being raped by guerrillas during the Nicaraguan Revolution. The film premiered in November 2002 at the Montreal International Documentary Festival, and had a brief theatrical run in Montreal in December, before being broadcast by Télé-Québec in February 2003 as an episode of the documentary series L'Œil ouvert. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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