As part of the #ENDViolence campaign organized by UNICEF to combat domestic violence, the German musical group Moderat has collaborated with its theme “Gita” and this video clip.
This campaign is designed to inspire children and adolescents to take action against domestic violence, which affects their own lives and communities, and to involve society to put an end to this often silent scourge.
The video, directed by the Paraguayans Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schembori, makes the invisible visible through the eyes of a child who experiences violence in his own home, but shows that it is possible to break the cycle of abuse.
In a clear way but without explicit images (mixing real images with cartoons for the most raw scenes is very well used), it shows the situation of a family that suffers sexist violence and how in the end the child is the one who manages to break the cycle, since he seeks help from the police.
And although we think that it is the woman who must stop the abuse, the reality is that many times the biggest victim is the one who does the least or can do to get out of the abuse. A story with a happy ending that unfortunately we see something idealized, complicated and difficult, as well as unusually fast, but we hope it is not impossible.
Undoubtedly campaigns such as these are still necessary, and often public institutions and various organizations intend to spread the message, as we mentioned recently with another initiative, in this case of UNETE against mistreatment of women and girls, "The brave is not violent".
In the case we are discussing today, it is a child and his mother who suffer violence, and it is the little brave man who manages to take the abuser away from the family, and save his mother and himself. We hope this UNICEF video to stop domestic violence make many people who live in these situations reflect or know and "accept" (or shut up) in their environment, and encourage them to act.
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