Break the Silence (2016)
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Director : Frida Kempff, Simón Mesa Soto, Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
Synopsis
Break the Silence is an international film project with the overall objective to combat sexual abuse of children at a global level.
The relationship of a married couple in their 40s is broken when the mother has an affair with her teenage daughter's boyfriend.
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