“Sad Girls Approach a Traumatic Event with Hope and Empathy”

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Paris. Mexican filmmaker Fernanda Tovar, from the young Colectivo Colmena, shows in Sad Girls how far two inseparable teenage friends can go when faced with sexual assault.

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“How do you define sexual abuse when it happens to you?” That’s the question Mexican director Fernanda Tovar asked herself when writing the screenplay for ‘Sad Girls,’ her debut feature film that explores the new generations of women who rely on “the warmth of friendship” and the “coldness of ChatGPT” to confront male violence. “When talking about gender violence, definitions are very important, but we don’t always find the words to name it or t…