Women Talking

Women from an ultra-conservative Mennonite community suffer repeated assaults occurring at night. With no evidence the victims can present, these incidents are dismissed as demonic attacks or products of imagination. While the men are away, the women gather to decide how they should respond.

The film adapts the 2018 novel by Miriam Toews, based on real events in a Bolivian Mennonite community. Between 2005 and 2009, nine men were found to have been harming women and girls—aged from 3 to 60—while they were unconscious, reportedly after being drugged. When the victims awoke bruised and injured, the men brushed off their accounts as fantasies or divine punishment, even in cases that resulted in pregnancy.

 Academy Award 2023 for Best Adapted Screenplay.