A Better Man

ORCS
Director:Lawrence Jackman, Attiya Khan
Premiere:16. October 2018
Length:79 minutes
Genre:Documentary

A Better Man

A Better Man: Lawrence Jackman, Attiya Khan, 2017, OV (ang) + ST (cz); Lawrence Jackman,Attiya Khan, 2017, versions: OR,CS,

Director: Lawrence Jackman, Attiya Khan

Attiya was 16 when she met Steve. It was the first serious relationship for both of them and the couple soon began living together. But Steve beat Attiya practically every day during their two-year relationship. He called her racist names, thrashed her with his fists... “I thought this was what relationships are like,” recalls the troubled Attiya in a therapy session, also attended by Steve, twenty years later. “I expected him sooner or later to kill me.” This intimate film sensitively examines the process of healing souls damaged by domestic violence, seeks its causes and how a vital debt can be repaid to the victims.

Length: 79 min

Year: 2017
Local premiere date: 16. October 2018

Country of origin:

  • Canada

Language version:

OR - Original version
CS - Czech subtitles

Director: Lawrence Jackman, Attiya Khan

Attiya was 16 when she met Steve. It was the first serious relationship for both of them and the couple soon began living together. But Steve beat Attiya practically every day during their two-year relationship. He called her racist names, thrashed her with his fists... “I thought this was what relationships are like,” recalls the troubled Attiya in a therapy session, also attended by Steve, twenty years later. “I expected him sooner or later to kill me.” This intimate film sensitively examines the process of healing souls damaged by domestic violence, seeks its causes and how a vital debt can be repaid to the victims.

Year: 2017
Local premiere date: 16. October 2018

Country of origin:

  • Canada

Language version:

OR - Original version
CS - Czech subtitles