Crushed Wings (2022)

overview : Ria, a seven-year-old girl growing up in a village, is led by her mother to a place where a group of women from her community await her. Here she is mutilated by an unqualified cutter, who completes the cultural FGM-ritual that ensures she will one day be taken as a wife. The child, once old enough, goes on to be forcibly married and moved away from her family to the England. Eventually, Ria seeks help in escaping the life she is trapped in, but the life of her two younger sisters hang in the balance. Can she change her elders' minds and prevent them from being led down the same path? Or will they become three more of 200 million women across the globe whose wings have been crushed by FGM?

Release Date : Nov 10, 2022

Runtime : 1h 38m

Genre : Drama  Crime  

Companies : Cam Buddha Films Ltd

Countries : India, Nepal, United Kingdom

Keywords : child abuse, faith, women's sexual identity, survival, educational, human rights, female genital mutilation, social issues, woman survivor