16. w. . over. the debris were. coming up on the program sterilized without consent thousands of was there pregnant women in south africa where forcibly sterilized girls human rights violation finds a new report. on joining me in the studio when filmmakers from nigeria. one of the world's top film festival.

your welcome to the program the thousands of pregnant women in south africa have been forcibly sterilized without their consent or were pressured into a green shortly before given birth those are the findings of a 5 year inquiry into the sterilization of women many home forces of the commission for gender equality reports one woman in labor was being told by. human people don't ask questions when you make babies why are you asking questions now just sign the form so you can go to theatre. i'm joined now by dr. king from the south african commission for gender equality which produced the report. straight to the point how would these pregnant women forced into being sterilized.

look at the letter of the woman was positive and they presented to the public health clinics or hospitals in south africa while they were giving employers and it's joining the labor process is that either and nurse or doctor approached them to tell them that they will be sterilized that they must be sterilized and in some instances if they don't get sterilized they will not get any more medical assistance from them. now your commission reported 48. state hospitals more than that there difficult could be more our research was limited because of the number of the complaints and affidavits that we received our study was not a prevalence study and we know since launching the report yesterday just one day of school we've heard numerous recounts of women who say they have gone through the

same they didn't know that this is something that shouldn't have happened to them and also had happened in different hospitals so we are getting those reports since we launched our investigative report of the 48 women ok and what kind of justice these women seeking from the commission. i think initially women just wanted to be affluent and to get someone to hear to listen them some of them had already approached the provincial departments and the hospitals with this happened and they were told that no no no you can go away and bring us the evidence that something wrong happened when they reached out to the commission we took our main date which it is part of the constitutional powers that we have to investigate to subpoena and get the necessary information to come up with this report and the reason why women came to us is because in law there is a prescription for medical negligence and for a lot of them that time had prescribed it and it was important still though to get

some justice and part of just to step one it is to get every port that affirms and actually has with this. have found that in fact women were forced and they were coerced and these are gross human rights violations they definitely dr king commission of the south african commission for gender equality thank you. now a nigerian movie has been selected to show other prestigious betting film festival the belinelli which is on this week in the german capital the film called meaning this is my desire has been called an alternative my gran's tale it shows the lives of those who are thinking of leaving their country as they struggle to make ends meet i'll be joined by the filmmakers in a moment but 1st here's a sneak peak. of the 2 stories set in lagos playing out side by side

that of a hairdresser and that of a factory worker both of them are frustrated by everyday life where many things seem to go wrong. you don't want. to thank you see it nearly crushed my television and i don't wonder i want to present the country and its people as it is. specifically with all of its ugliness like nigeria does push people out and there is a lot of tragedy and it was just putting that up not sugarcoating anything. directors arey and chico assyria twin brothers from lagos their mother had a padlock around the t.v. but it didn't help they both ended up studying film in new york. their 1st feature film a more fair is showing up the berlin ali a few hours before the premiere they conduct an interview and sign autographs. 6

and back. for the brothers capturing the spirit of lagos is crucial to their story area and a series shot at over 40 locations in the city keeping. close as possible to the reality of life that. we were very deliberate about showing as much of the city as possible and i think this is such a place you know that after several weeks and got to know people there very very well. we got everyone involved. a mutha is about people's longing for a better life and raises the question of whether to leave or stay in search of this . i would mean

a studio. siri nigerian filmmakers and they are twins welcome to the show guys thanks for having us thank you should tell us what inspired you to make the movie. and it was really trying to make an ultimate migrant tale the the the one we have one. it's always been one sided the story of migrations particularly from sub-saharan africa from particular from nigeria so i really wanted to tell the story of what goes on before you see these men and women across the desert over in the oceans or in the detention centers and present the very human aspect of that and why is that so important just for that reason we don't see enough of these stories in this film makers from the country we felt it was important to to speak to what is happening within the countries that is driving people out and again humanize these people that we often see only at a very very high high crisis times that we have

a clip from that will be let's quickly take a look and then there will be right back. i swear i'll give you my. don't touch that money. you put some hands from your privates some blood on one peach i'm saying. i don't want to touch the money. how does this clip fit into the movie come to you. well this is one of the main characters rosie and her sister grace who has was going to be giving it away but i mean it's sort of a spoiler but she's pregnant and this is just one of the one of the ways they're

trying to navigate their way to europe to essentially give up the baby to an adoption agency and now you you start by making that that's important to him which he has been called an alternative migrant story. and we talked about why it's important to give the african point of view but i guess the challenge is how difficult is it to actually try to give the african point of view in such movies. well i don't know if it's difficult to me well from the way to act with every day i think that the difficulty is because because it's it seems so you see so little of it the difficulty is really orientating the global west's idea of what of what actually happens mainly because the news you receive the news that you get is always very much one sided and and so it's reorientate to those employed

in implicit biases really and you felt the whole movie in nigeria there was totally financed in nigeria what did you not get in nigeria i mean we are funding came from g.-d. and studios which is nigerian based and then we did some crowdsourcing as well for funds everything was shot in lagos in about 40 different locations but we did our post-production outside of ny we did up as roxanne in new york in the states and that's because nigeria couldn't provides the festivities you needed for that year the facilities simply don't exist we shot on film and no processing labs or development labs. in west africa that we know of anyway so that had to go out to new york where we had relationships from film school same thing with the post production facilities with color grading and sound mixing and the technicians as well these are all things that don't they exist in nigeria but no they're not at

the level of the standard that we wanted we have like one main national film school and that's something which you know we want to encourage as filmmakers coming back and of who had the privilege of having a wonderful film education. we need more of that to grow the in this. there's you know the way for me i grew up watching nigeria movies so i get a bit sad when i realize it's such a huge movie industry are going to making more movies and hollywood even when it doesn't have the. facilities that are needed but let's come back to the audience that you expect for this movie do you expect to actually reach an african audience with this we wrote this for an african audience we made we make we made this movie for nigerians and we make movies for nigerians so for us it's you know it's doing this being in berlin and sharing it with a wide audience is what is special for us you know the fact that the film is touching people outside of our own country and they're getting to understand a little bit about lives and what you know lagos in particular which is very much

a character in this film. talking about the wider audience i just spent the wider with those 2 to relate to this. well we had a premium today so we got a sample of it and it's really the the thing the thing we hear most often is people feel like they went there when they travel and that's the gift of cinema is that you can you can go somewhere else from your living room and that's not to be human so for a while doing it it's about coming to nigeria and experiencing the day to day lives of nigerians through a character ok now i was always more times always good ghanians a nigerian sassafras it's able to carry and educated me to make as many thanks for your time thank you thanks for having us. sounds like a film where it seems. as usual you can catch a lot of stories on our website facebook page we were looking at a film about legacy will leave you now with pictures from the streets of the city

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