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Pourquoi? (2005)

Pourquoi? poster
Directed by
Sokhna Amar
Genre
documentary film, drama film
Country
Senegal, France
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A 28-year-old French woman writes a letter to her best friend from Senegal. In it, she describes the circumstances of being raped when she was 18.

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What happens

Pourquoi? es una película del año 2005. Una joven francesa de 28 años cuenta a través de una carta a su mejor amiga, nacida en Senegal, las circunstancias de cuando fue violada a la edad de 18 años. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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