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Diana's Poem
15-year-old Diana wants to present an art project for a school performance, consisting of video documentaries and a poetry slam. The theme is women and their everyday lives, or rather how they deal with their everyday problems. She documents not only girls and women in her environment, but also her female role models, her mother and grandmother. The three have been living together since Doloris separated from Diana's violent father. Diana's mother wants to move in with her long-distance boyfriend to give Diana and herself a better life and a real family. Diana is not particularly popular at school and is very withdrawn. When she starts filming at school and in everyday life for her school project, she repeatedly witnesses assaults on young girls and women. However, the women seem to have long since accepted such assaults as normal. Diana wants to break this narrative with her art project, show reality, and reveal one of her biggest secrets.
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15-year-old Diana wants to present an art project for a school performance, consisting of video documentaries and a poetry slam. The theme is women and their everyday lives, or rather how they deal with their everyday problems. She documents not only girls and women in her environment, but also her female role models, her mother and grandmother. The three have been living together since Doloris separated from Diana's violent father. Diana's mother wants to move in with her long-distance boyfriend to give Diana and herself a better life and a real family. Diana is not particularly popular at school and is very withdrawn. When she starts filming at school and in everyday life for her school project, she repeatedly witnesses assaults on young girls and women. However, the women seem to have long since accepted such assaults as normal. Diana wants to break this narrative with her art project, show reality, and reveal one of her biggest secrets.
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