The Hunting Ground

Film program, US 2015, 103 min., engl. OV

By: Kirby Dick

A shocking investigative documentary about sexual assaults and rape on college campuses in the US. Only when a few courageous female students made the rapes public it became a bigger issue, supported by other rape survivors such as Lady Gaga with her song “Till it Happens to You”. The issue is mostly denied by the university administrations out of fear for their reputation. This film shows the fight for recognition and the general fight agains sexual violence against women.