
Because We Are Girls
Three sisters in a small town in British Columbia, raised in a conservative Indo-Canadian family, decide to speak publicly about sexual abuse they endured from an older relative starting in childhood. For more than twenty years they kept the abuse hidden, weighing family loyalty and community reputation against what happened to them. The film follows their decision to break that silence, both to protect younger relatives still in contact with the man and to pursue accountability through the legal system. Interviews with the sisters trace how the abuse shaped their adult lives and marriages, and how their parents and extended family react as the secret becomes public. The documentary sits inside a specific cultural context, showing what it costs to challenge a relative's authority and a family's public standing in a tight-knit immigrant community. It is a story about disclosure itself, about what happens in the years between the abuse and the moment someone finally names it out loud.