Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Survivors

Sheila M. Sofian 1997 USA Animation Short color 16min English
With powerfully understated empathy, Sofian combines voice-over interviews with battered women, and a counselor who works with "recovering" male batterers, with elegant animation to explore the experience of domestic violence from all sides. As the filmmaker both literally depicts specific events and gives abstract shape to the complex emotional pain such crimes unleash, her film comes to stand as a moving testament to the strength of her subjects.

Director

Sheila M. Sofian

Sheila M. Sofian

1990 Secret Rage (Short) 

1991 Faith & Patience (Short) 

1997 Survivors (Short) 

2002 A Conversation with Haris (Documentary short) (as Sheila M. Sofian) 

2006 Waving the Flag (Short) 

2013 Truth Has Fallen (Documentary)

Director: Sheila Sofian