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"Fear in the Belly," a freedom investigation

"Fear in the Belly," a freedom investigation
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Filming her efforts to document both pro-choice and pro-life protests following the torpedoing of abortion rights in the United States, Léa Clermont-Dion encountered a subject too vast for her.
Léa Clermont-Dion, camera in hand, documents the demonstrations on both sides of the aisle over abortion rights. (Babel Films)

La Peur au ventre is one of those films of militant urgency, striving live to bear witness to political violence. After the revocation in June 2022 of the Roe v. Wade ruling , which had led in 1973 to the vote for the right to abortion by the Supreme Court throughout the United States, Léa Clermont-Dion takes her feminist courage in both hands and, camera in hand, not stingy with selfies, goes to film in the demonstrations of both sides, pro-choice and pro-life, tries to assess the repercussions in the American neighbor, as at home in Quebec. Quite quickly, alas, she falters in the face of the enemy, goes to find refuge on the right side, with activist friends, uncomfortable and unable to carry out the investigative film she envisaged. It must be said that the infiltration strategies of the opposing camp are discouraging,

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