NO FLOWERS – dir. MAURIZIO MALIORE

(Honorable Mention)

Original Film Title: NO FLOWERS

Director’s Name: MAURIZIO MALIORE

Writer’s Name: MAURIZIO MALIORE

Producer: MAURIZIO MALIORE

Country of Origin: Italy

Country of Filming : Italy

Language: Italian

Runtime: 1 hour 9 minutes

Film Description:

NO FLOWERS (Nessun Fiore) is an independent documentary that tackles a dramatically topical issue: sexual violence as a weapon of war. Through the voices of women who bear witness, analyse and recount their memories, the film tells how sexual violence has been used over the centuries as a tool of domination and annihilation.
From ancient Greece to Italy devastated by the “marocchinate” of the Second World War, to Bosnia in the 1990s, Nessun Fiore denounces a crime that, despite changing its face and context, has never ceased to exist. Women have learned to defend themselves and be resilient even in the face of such heinous violence.
Among the protagonists are Luciana Romoli, a partisan courier, Azra Nuhefendic, a Bosnian journalist, and Gabriella Geraci, a psychologist, who explore individual and collective trauma. Also contributing are Tibisay Ambrosini, coordinator of the Stop Rape Italia campaign, and Emiliano Ciotti, president of the Associazione Vittime delle Marocchinate (Association of Victims of the Marocchinate), which has collected over 20,000 documents on these forgotten acts of violence.
Ilaria Patamia gives voice to the Greek chorus that unites myth and history, Paola Diegoli pays tribute to the victims of every war, and Roberta Biagiarelli, who has been committed for years to recounting the tragedy of Srebrenica (this year marks the 30th anniversary of the genocide), reminds us how necessary it is to continue to tell the story.
In what Pope Francis has called “the third world war in pieces”, Nessun Fiore questions whether these historical acts of violence are also at the root of the growing brutality in times of peace: femicide, domestic abuse, silent oppression.
Nessun Fiore is an act of memory, justice and truth.