The scars are theirs. The silence is ours.

Let us break the silence together.

Illustration of a girl with dark curly hair, wearing traditional dress with red, green, and white colors, adorned with jewelry, sitting sideways on a wooden chair and looking over her shoulder.

In post-war Tigray, Ethiopia, where women's bodies became battlegrounds in a largely unseen conflict, Not Ours To Carry follows three women as they break the enforced silence around conflict-related sexual violence and carry their fight for justice from their communities to the world stage.

A documentary film by Veronica Blecker