Femme de la rue (2012)
24m
Running Time
July 26, 2012Release Date
Plot.
When master student 'Documentary film' Sofie Peeters moved to Brussels, she was faced with a very frustrating phenomenon. On a daily basis, she was treated with disregard by strange men in the streets: cheap attempts to flirt, sexist roaring, intimidating persecutions,... Sofie decided to make her Master film about this. She caught the sexism on tape, confronted the offenders and questioned women about how they deal with this problem. The result: 'Femme de la rue'.
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Cast & Crew.
Sofie Peeters
Director
Wouter Sap
Producer
Details.
Wiki.
Femme de la rue (Woman of the street) is a 2012 Belgian documentary made by Sofie Peeters. It runs for 25 minutes and deals with the subject of sexual harassment against women in the city of Brussels.
The documentary was broadcast by Canvas on 26 July 2012. It caused a lot of controversy in both Belgian and Dutch politics about penalizing the harassment of women.