Zero Impunity

This activist documentary was made as an attendant work of a project of the same name aimed at turning the public's attention to sexual violence in military conflicts. The focus of the documentary’s individual chapters ranges from rape as a tool of degradation of the enemy in Syria, through interrogation methods in Ukraine and Guantánamo, to prostitution in war zones. The film’s provocative concept, clever use of animation and appropriately agitating tone serve the ambition to open people's eyes and bring the frequently relativised and trivialised aspects of the topicto the same level as those that are generally condemned. The animation here serves not only to illustrate audio interviews, but also for appropriately and suggestively manipulative symbolic short scenes. Zero Impunity is simply a documentary that has a clear objective and employs every device to achieve it, which in and of itself is respectable, though the film will look better not in the cinema, but online, from which it draws many stylistic elements. (19/05/2019)