Sex Slaves

"Sex Slaves" is a documentary that exposes the global sex trade business in the former Soviet Bloc. The viewers are taken into the shadowy, multi-billion dollar world of sex trafficking. From the villages of Moldova and Ukraine, to underground brothels and discotheques in Turkey where many women are trafficked and forced into prostitution, we witness first-hand the brutal world of white sex slavery. The film discusses how five women from the struggling countries of Eastern Europe were tricked into sexual slavery, raped, beaten by traffickers and pimps. The viewers follow one woman’s husband as he travels to Turkey to find and rescue his wife.

Awards: Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism (2007), Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club of America, Gracie Award from American Women in Film and Television, British Broadcast Award for Best Documentary and Royal Television Society Award from the UK etc.

The film will be screened within the framework of the film festival "Human Rights Report" organized by the Photography and Cinematography Club of Ayioi Omoloyites Cultural Workshop in collaboration with the organization Cyprus Stop Trafficking.

Cast:
Ric Esther Bienstock
Felix Golubev
Will Lyman

Director: Ric Esther Bienstock, Franca Cerretti
Writer: Ric Esther Bienstock
Runtime: 55 min
Genre: Documentary
Language: English, Russian
Production Year: 2005

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