Using films that depict violence against women in a realistic way can be a didactic, complementary resource, very useful for group work with trainees.

Options:

1 Asking them to watch the movies at home, and then analysing them and reflecting on some selected issues, or those aspects that impressed them.

2 Watching selected excerpts in order to work on specific aspects (psychological abuse, stages of change, impact on children, etc).

Some useful Films for IPV training:

1. “TE DOY MIS OJOS” (Take My Eyes): 

It is one of the films that treats the problem adequately, and allows us to analyse various aspects: types of mistreatment, the difficulty of making psychological abuse visible and communicating it, the role of the family –mother (tolerance), sister (support), friends, the impact on exposed children; stages of change, the mourning, the relapse, the perpetrator’s profile, the hardness of escaping the process, among other issues. It is an extraordinarily useful film for training.
 

2. “BEFORE WOMEN HAD WINGS” (Spanish: Alas cortadas):

This film may be useful to discuss the impact of abuse on children exposed to IPV or directlymistreated, and he value of support, love, and resilience mechanisms. It can also be used to treat the consequences of continued abuse on women, the process of psychological destruction in these circumstances, the refuge in alcohol or the abuse towards their children.
 
3. “SOLAS”

A film about the everyday abuse tolerated and not identified as such, which nevertheless has consequences for children. It describes transgenerational violence, tolerance, confusion and finally rejection and help to turn the tide of his life.