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Must Read After My Death
Must Read After My Death (2007)
, 1h14
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about children, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about child abuse, Films about child abuse

When a Hartford couple turns to psychiatry for help with their marriage, things quickly spiral out of control. Couples counseling, individual and group therapy and 24-hour marathon sessions ensue. Their four children suffer and are given their own psychiatrists. Pills are prescribed, people are institutionalized, shock-therapy is administered. This is an intimate story in the family’s own words, from an extraordinary collection of audio recordings and home movies, illuminating a difficult and extraordinary time.
Sybil
Sybil (2007)
, 3h18
Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films about child abuse
Actors Tammy Blanchard, Jessica Lange, JoBeth Williams, Ron White, Fab Filippo, Brian Downey

Le film est basé sur le livre Sybil de Flora Rheta Schreiber paru en 1973. Sybil Dorsett est une jeune femme diplômée qui souffre d'étranges absences et demande de l'aide à une psychiatre : le Dr Cornelia Wilbur. On suit la longue psychothérapie de Sybil, au cours de laquelle la thérapeute va mettre en évidence un trouble de la personnalité multiple, en l'occurrence, chez Sybil, ce sont dix-sept personnalités différentes qui prennent le contrôle d'elle-même. Certaines sont psychotiques et veulent la tuer. Ces troubles sont liés à des abus sexuels durant l'enfance. La thérapie va mener à la réintégration progressive de ces personnalités en une seule.
Exte: Hair Extensions
Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)
, 1h48
Directed by Sion Sono
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror
Themes Films about children, Comedy horror films, Films about child abuse
Actors Chiaki Kuriyama, Ren Osugi, Megumi Sato, Tsugumi, Hikari Mitsushima, Yōji Tanaka

In a shipping container, customs agents discover a huge amount of human hair used as materials for hair extensions, along with the dead body of a young girl with a shaved head. The corpse is transported to the morgue, where the results of the autopsy determine that the girl's internal organs have been harvested, the victim of a black market human organ racketeering ring. The morgue night watchman, a closet tricophile named Yamazaki (Ren Osugi), is infatuated by her beautiful hair and steals the body away to his home. He finds that the girl's body has begun to grow hair—from her head, vacant eye sockets, tongue, and various open wounds. He is delighted and encourages it to grow, harvesting it to make hair extensions to sell. However, the hair controls and kills its wearers, causing them to experience the dying memories of the corpse girl, including the last thing she sees on the bloody operating table: the smiling mouth of the man who killed her.
Aruba
Aruba (2006)
, 11minutes
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Films about child abuse
Actors A.J. Saudin, Devon Bostick, Soo Garay

Milan (A.J. Saudin) is an 11-year-old boy who dreams about escaping a violent home life. When his parents fight or take drugs, or when bullies pick on him in school, he finds peace in contemplating a postcard with an idyllic picture of the island of Aruba, and imagines himself in that faraway place as a way to survive.
Deliver Us from Evil
Deliver Us from Evil (2006)
, 1h41
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Films about pedophilia, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about religion, Documentary films about child abuse, Films about child abuse
Actors Jeff Anderson

The film chronicles O'Grady's years as a priest in Northern California, where he committed his crimes. After being convicted of child molestation and serving seven years in prison, O'Grady was deported to his native Ireland. Berg interviewed him there in 2005 for the film. Additionally, the film presents trial documents, videotaped depositions, and interviews with activists, theologians, psychologists, and lawyers; it suggests that Church officials were aware of O'Grady's crimes, and they took steps to conceal them to protect him and the church.
Invisible Children
Invisible Children (2006)
, 55minutes
Directed by Jason Russell
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about child abuse, Political films, Films about child abuse
Actors Jason Russell

In the spring of 2003, Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, and Laren Poole traveled to Africa to document the War in Darfur. Instead, they changed their focus to the conflict in northern Uganda, Africa's second longest-running conflict after the Eritrean War of Independence. The documentary depicts the abduction of children who are used as child soldiers by Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). This film centers around a group of Ugandan children who walk miles every night to places of refuge in order to avoid abduction by the LRA.
Easter Bunny Kill! Kill!
Easter Bunny Kill! Kill! (2006)
, 1h30
Directed by Chad Ferrin
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia, Films about prostitution, Films about domestic violence, Films about disabilities, Films about child abuse
Actors Trent Haaga

The night before Easter, a lowlife named Remington dons an Easter Bunny mask, and robs a convenience store with a shotgun, shooting the clerk in the mouth. Remington is then revealed to have charmed his way into the life of widow Mindy Peters, a nurse who lives with her cerebral palsy-afflicted son Nicholas, who Remington torments when Mindy is not around. While taking out the garbage, Nicholas befriends a disfigured vagrant who gives him a rabbit he claims is an Easter Bunny. Nicholas decides to keep the rabbit a secret, but it is discovered by Remington, who threatens to kill it if Nicholas says anything bad about him to Mindy.
The Youngest
The Youngest (2005)
, 1h4
Origin Philippines
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about children, Prison films, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about child abuse, Documentary films about law enforcement, Films about child abuse

Ditsi Carolino received the Best Director award for the documentary film Bunso (The Youngest) at the OneWorld 2005 documentary films festival held in Prague, Czech Republic.
Aurore
Aurore (2005)
, 1h55
Directed by Luc Dionne
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Melodrama
Themes Films about children, Films about child abuse
Actors Serge Postigo, Marianne Fortier, Rémy Girard, Stéphanie Lapointe, Yves Jacques, Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse

Aurore Gagnon, born in 1909 to Marie-Anne Caron and Telesphore Gagnon, is the second child of the couple. During the first nine years of her life, Aurore enjoys a happy life.
Thieves of Innocence
Thieves of Innocence (2005)

Directed by Paul Arcand
Genres Drama, Documentary, Romance
Themes Films about children, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about child abuse, Films about child abuse
Actors Paul Arcand, Dan Bigras

Film choc au style pamphlétaire, le documentaire brosse un portrait critique de la protection de la jeunesse au Québec. Il utilise des chiffres alarmants comme le nombre de signalements à la Direction de la protection de la jeunesse, les estimés du nombre de bébés victimes d’infanticide, le nombre d’enfants placés, etc. pour questionner la responsabilité citoyenne et institutionnelle face aux enfants en besoin de protection. Avec des extraits d’entrevues de victimes, il réfère à des exemples de situations graves et très médiatisés de maltraitance ou d’abus sexuels, comme ceux de Nathalie Simard ou celui du « Bourreau de Beaumont », qui a aussi fait les manchettes et qui a été l’objet d’une enquête de la Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse dans ce questionnement. Vingt-cinq ans après l’avènement de la Loi sur la protection de la jeunesse, le documentaire critique le système de protection de la jeunesse pour sa grosseur, ses lourdeurs administratives et certaines de ses pratiques.