Laura Delle Piane

Every year, in a remote village in Sardinia, a ritual takes place. A man — Batiledhu (the madman) — is chosen by the villagers to embody Dionysos, the wild God of nature and ecstasy, who dies and is resurrected in the eternal cycle of life.

In a recording studio, five mothers read the testimonies of other anonymous mothers and open up, laying bare their regret about motherhood. On an imagined island, these five mothers are locked away in an open-air prison. They are under surveillance and forced into hard labor.

Numerous Kenyan women allege that they were raped by British soldiers from 1970 to 2003 — battered and abandoned by their husbands for bringing "shame on the community" — a number of Samburu women gathered and created "Umoja", a sex-segregated village where only women are allowed permanent residence.

Three children who use hearing aids take part in a truly unique workshop where silence meets sound.