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RSS FeedsA Better Man documentary explores aftermath of abusive relationships
(The Star Travel)

 
 

25 april 2017 20:22:47

 
A Better Man documentary explores aftermath of abusive relationships
(The Star Travel)
 


Attiya Khan, sitting across the table from her former boyfriend, asks if he can describe the way he abused her. “Oh yeah,” he says. “That’s tough. That never leaves your mind.” Steve — who abused Khan daily for the two years they dated and lived together as teenagers, decades before this meeting — swallows, looks down, shakes his head and then looks back at her. Read more: How to make a better man: Keenan“I remember choking you,” he says. “I don’t really remember hitting much, but I remember that.” This is one of several pointed questions Khan asks in the consensually taped conversation that opens A Better Man, a dialogue-driven documentary that looks deep into an abusive relationship as it was experienced and continues to linger through the lives of both people involved. The documentary, co-directed by Khan and Toronto-based filmmaker Lawrence Jackman, will have its world premiere at Hot Docs Sunday April 30. Sarah Polley is an executive producer on the project. In the film, Khan, 43, and Steve, whose last name is never disclosed, visit the Ottawa apartment they used to share, walk through the halls of their former high school and discuss their past with and without a counsellor present. They recall details of the violence that occurred throughout their relationship. “There is something so satisfying about being able to tell the person who hurt you what exactly it is they did,” Khan tells the Star in an email. She says when Steve started being accountable for his behaviour, 20-plus years later, she felt she was finally able to start healing.“I no longer have nightmares about being hurt. Flashbacks of incidents of violence I experienced are happening a lot less. I don’t anticipate violence wherever I go. I’m sleeping better. I feel a sense of calm and happiness I haven’t felt before,” she says.In the film, they visit the spot where ...


 
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