Season 1 - 4 x 45 minutes | International Premiere at CANNESERIES Season 9
Dutch
French & English subtitles
Episodes 1 & 4
Screening of two episodes, in the presence of the series' team.
Synopsis
In Belgium, at least one woman is killed every other week by her (ex-) partner, often after years of coercive control and escalating violence. A woman was killed. explores four lives through family testimonies, revealing missed red flags, repeated pleas for help and how police and justice failed to protect them.
Note from the artistic direction
Belgium and De Mensen are back in the Docuseries Competition after the deeply moving Miracle N°71, A Woman Was Killed. will leave no viewer unscathed, and many enraged. An analysis of feminicide through an unprecedented approach, set within a house that was tragically the scene of one such act, the series alternates between individual tragedies and a broader perspective on a subject still too often treated as a footnote.