The 3Cat platform has just released a new six-part documentary series. Women in struggle, directed and presented by journalist Txell Feixas, brings us back to the spirit of the magnificent chronicles of the former correspondent for public television in the Middle East. Now, with the calm and meticulousness that this new format allows, Feixas travels around the world to reveal stories of women who demand justice in very different areas. This Sunday, TV3 broadcast two episodes at the time of the broadcast. 30 minutes to promote the series. We met Zuhal Sherzad, an Afghan woman who fights for women's education in her country under the Taliban regime. In this case, the programme had to be recorded clandestinely. Feixas cannot obtain permission to enter Afghanistan and Sherzad uses a mobile phone to explain an educational task that can cost the lives of students and teachers. In a second episode we met Ana Rutilia Ical Choc, one of the few indigenous lawyers in Guatemala, who fights against the plundering of land and natural resources by large multinationals.Here they kill you with fear to defend the land", she says indignantly. In the initial sequence, the lawyer confronts the vigilantes of a hydroelectric plant that leaves the indigenous communities and their surroundings without water. The platform is also able to test Sophie Ndongo's task to abolish the Kafala system in Lebanon, which enslaves domestic workers. I Sister Fa's activism in Senegal through music and sexual education to end the practice of clitoral ablation. Salvador Teodora Vásquez defends a law that is already penalized by prison.
Each chapter, of twenty-five minutes, is constructed like an album, like a collage of images, and combines the story of the struggle with the personal experience of each of the protagonists. A bond of trust and affection is established between them and the journalist. Feixas embodies the figure of the classic reporter who observes closely, who blends in with the environment and easily adapts to the surroundings to become imbued with the circumstances from an emotional point of view. The production seeks the visual power that emphasizes the warmth and brightness of the colors. This careful treatment of the image subtly embellishes the cause and contributes to transmit optimism and vigor to that combative spirit that underpins each story.
The title underlines this necessary female perspective, but, at the end of the day, Women in struggle It is a portrait of what is happening in the world, a small sample of thousands of problems and realities. It is a privileged opportunity to open a window that allows us to look far away from a sensitive perspective.
