Zero Impunity

Zero Impunity
Directed by	Nicolas Blies and Stéphane Hueber-Blies
Screenplay by	Nicolas Blies and Stéphane Hueber-Blies
Produced by	Marion Guth Stéphan Roelants François Le Gall Louise Génis-Cosserat
Music by	Holland Andrews
Production companies	a_BAHN Mélusine Productions Webspider Productions Camera Talk Productions
Distributed by	IndieSales
Release date	March 2019
Running time	93 minutes
Countries	Luxembourg, France
Languages	French, English, Arabic, Ukrainian
Budget	€2 million

Zero Impunity is a multimedia documentary film by

Zero Impunity was developed and conceptualized by Marion Guth and the director duo Nicolas Blies and Stéphane Hueber-Blies (a.k.a. the Blies Brothers) on the basis of investigative reports commissioned by the directors into the issue of sexual violence in several countries, carried out as part of the film. Investigations have been entrusted to the French journalists' collective YouPress. Zero Impunity was launched on January 3, 2017 with the publication of six investigative reports on Médiapart.^[1] (France) and 10 media partners in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The production of the feature-length documentary ran throughout 2017. New sequences were shot between September 2017 and December 2017 in Ukraine, Jordan, United States and France.

Synopsis

The film is based on six investigative reports by eleven female journalists on the impact and occurrence of sexual violence and systemic abuse in wartime.

Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter gave the documentary a mostly favorable review for calling attention to the widespread indifference to sexual assault and sexual abuse by both terrorist organizations and sanctioned governmental organizations such as the United States Armed Forces and the United Nations peacekeepers. However, Mintzer criticized the film for trying to cover too many separate stories in its runtime, and for relying on "heavy-handed aesthetics [...] to make a point that didn’t need to be so overemphasized".^[6]

Allen Hunter of

Amber Wilkinson of Eye For Film was mostly positive, although she also noted that the film was dense in places and could have benefited if "perhaps less [sic] on situations already heavily documented, such as Syria and Abu Ghraib, would have allowed them more time to focus on under-discussed topics, such as the alleged indifference of the UN".[9]

Nominations and awards

Zero Impunity won the FIPA D'OR 2017 SmartFipa in Biarritz.^[10][11] In 2019, the film also won the audience award at Festival du Film Politique Porto-Vecchio ^[12] and the Best Feature Film Award at the Bucharest International Animation Film festival in 2020.^[13]

References

External links

• Zero Impunity at
  IMDb