According to official figures, one in three Canadian women has been sexually assaulted as an adult. If this figure gives chill in the back, it is however reported, and without surprise, that only 5% of these aggressions are the subject of a report to the police. What chills the blood, since it means that hundreds, thousands, and perhaps even millions of criminals live their lives with impunity. In line with the #MeToo movement, women are fortunately uniting to fight against this sexual violence. Mélanie Lemay is one of them. The co-founder of the Quebec movement against sexual violence thus delivers to the camera of directors Jonathan and Jean-Laurence Seaborn the details of her daily life punctuated by an incessant struggle to make the voices of the — too many — victims heard who, like her, have seen their lives are shattered.
“When you know the victim and the aggressor, it’s much easier to say that it can’t be and that the girl is a liar”, denounced in particular Mélanie Lemay on the set of Everybody talks about it a few years ago already. Today, her fight for shame to change sides is far from over, and she can count on the support of organizations such as Viol-Secours, created to compensate for the shortcomings of a system that is unsuited to the realities experienced by victims of sexual violence. For a culture of consent is therefore a documentary, one more, necessary for the awareness to be collective and immediate, because it is high time to change culture.
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