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- In Kenya, in the year 2013, girls from 6 to 15 years of age are being "cut". 85% of them undergo total mutilation of their external genitalia for non medical reasons. Long before the completion of their growth, girls get in line, and undergo this operation, without any anesthetic or analgesic and under conditions of no hygiene. With the same blade, with no kind of sterilization, all of them will be "cut". Some will die of bleeding, some will get HIV. "Excision" documentary examines the consequences of FGM (female genital mutilation) through female portraits and demonstrates the effects of this action. It was shot in Kenya in the area of the Pokot Tribe in January 2013.
- In 1994, Rwanda experienced a terrible genocide. It is estimated that more than 1,150,000 people were murdered in only a hundred days. Within 100 days, the country was plunged into extreme poverty and despair. In 2012, six members of ActionAid's youth team of volunteers visited Rwanda and discovered how women farmers have found hope in creating cooperatives and farming land to strengthen their lives but also their country's food security. ActionAid volunteers talked with these women and bring their stories on the screen.