My Body Is Mine

In Kenya, very young girls are getting genitally mutilated on a very large scale. In secluded places, hundreds of girls are every day waiting for their turn. Quiet and scared, tense and ignorant about their inevitable fate. The women who do the circumcisions slip in ordinary houses early in the morning or late at night to do their horrible work. However, this practice has been legally forbidden in Kenya for ten years. Officially, there are no more female circumcisions in Kenya, but the truth is completely different.

Via Annemie won an award at the Television Festival in Monte-Carlo. Annemie Struyf won a special prize for investigative journalism in the field of human rights. She received the "International Red Cross Committee Prize" for her documentary on female circumcision in Kenya. In addition, the documentary was also nominated for the INPUT festival and the World Media Festival.