DoXXL: Consequences of Sexual Violence and Trauma as a Key to Healing

After the Screening of A Family
With: Marina Ajduković (The Society for Psychological Assistance), Hana Hrpka (Hrabri telefon)
Host: Dina Pokrajac

Christine Angot is one of the doyens of French contemporary autofictional prose. In her film debut, A Family, she uncompromisingly and violently confronts her family and demands that they talk openly about her father and the sexual abuse she suffered from the age of 13, which she described in her acclaimed novel Incest (1999). Angot persistently talks about everything that happened to her – going into details that we might not want to hear – bravely defying social hypocrisy and silence. In the panel, we will talk about the consequences of sexual violence, the search for healing and dealing with the past through dissection of one’s own intimacy. We will also discuss film therapy and the help of documenting one’s own psychological trauma.