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Reproductive Lives Film Series: Lingui, the Sacred Bonds (2021)

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Kentucky Theatre

Lingui, the Sacred Bonds TUES, FEB 21 @ 7:30pm at the Kentucky Theatre (Lingui, les liens sacrés; dir. Mahamet-Saleh Haroun, Chad, 2021) On the outskirts of N'Djamena in Chad, Amina lives alone with her only 15-year-old daughter Maria. Her already fragile world collapses the day she discovers that her daughter is pregnant. In a country where abortion is not only condemned by religion, but also by law, Amina finds herself facing a battle that seems lost in advance.