Event

Global Mental Health Film Series - Sound of Torture

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 18:30to20:30
Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry, Amphitheatre 4333 Côte-Ste-Catherine Rd., Montreal, QC H3T 1E4

McGill Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill School of Social Work & Global Mental Health Film Series Sound of Torture

A film by Keren Yeshayo

Discussion to follow with:

Maya Fennig  & Yohannes Ferdinando Drar      

Since Europe closed its borders in 2006, thousands of Eritrean refugees fled their military dictator-ruled country towards Israel. The only way out is across the Sinai desert in Egypt. There, many are kidnapped by Bedouin smugglers and taken to camps where they are tortured and raped as they are forced to call their relatives begging for ransom for their release. We follow Meron Estefanos, an Eritrean journalist-activist living in Sweden. On her radio program she talks to hostages in the camps while recording their pleas for help as well as their family members raising money for their release. We also follow two refugees that made it into Israel in their attempt to save their loved ones lives. Both eloquent and harrowing, SOUND OF TORTURE spotlights one of today’s most underreported human rights violations and the one woman who is making it her mission to create change. 

                                                              

         Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 6:30-8:30 pm

   Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry, Amphitheatre

      4333 Côte-Ste-Catherine Rd., Montreal, QC H3T 1E4

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