Sex trafficking film wins award

A film based on the true story of a victim of sex trafficking won the grand prize at a human rights film awards in Dublin last…

A film based on the true story of a victim of sex trafficking won the grand prize at a human rights film awards in Dublin last night.

Spanish actress turned director Mabel Lozano's film Listen to Metells the tale of victim Svetlana Demidovitch.

It looks at how the complicity of her clients helps traffickers to continue to trade. One of the other winners at the Irish Council of Civil Liberties Film Awards was Hearing Silence, which looks at how former principal flautist with the RTÉ concert orchestra, Elizabeth Petcu, copes with a diagnosis of progressive hearing loss.

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