THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET

Kim Longinotto
Great Britain 2002 | 92 Min. | 35 mm, OmeU

THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET is a grip­ping fea­ture doc­u­men­tary by acclaimed film­mak­er Kim Longinot­to (DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE AND RUNAWAY) that exam­ines the prac­tice of female gen­i­tal muti­la­tion in Kenya and the pio­neer­ing African women who are brave­ly revers­ing the tra­di­tion. In this epic work, Longinot­to pro­vides women the oppor­tu­ni­ty to speak can­did­ly about the prac­tice and explain its cul­tur­al sig­nif­i­cance within Kenyan soci­ety. From grip­ping tes­ti­mo­ni­als by young women who share the painful after­math of their trauma to inter­views with elder­ly matri­archs who stub­born­ly stand behind the prac­tice, Longinot­to paints a com­plex por­trait of the cur­rent polemics and con­flicts that have allowed this pro­ce­dure to exist well into modern times.