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Paper Puppet Testimony, is a 2021 Iraqi movie, directed by Sherko Abbas. with a runtime of 8 minutes.
Paper Puppet Testimony is an experimental documentary by Abbas that recovers the stories of Kurdish women imprisoned in the Red Prison. Although the prison has since been converted into a museum, the histories it commemorates remain partial — privileging narratives tied to political parties currently in power while erasing the captivity and torture endured by women prisoners. The political establishment has shown little willingness to confront these atrocities. Working against this institutional erasure, Abbas uses experimental video to resist the forgetting, reckoning honestly with the horrors of the past and insisting that these women's experiences be seen and recorded before they disappear entirely.
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