Féminisites
2026 · 36m · Canada
Directed by Anne-Lovely Etienne
Genres: crime, documentary
Tones: contemplative, dark, provocative
Gendered violence on dating apps, told by victims, a police officer and a Crown prosecutor — and the digital sisterhood fighting back.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's a doc about dating app violence that could've been a TED talk, but Etienne resists the urge to moralize—instead she lets the Crown prosecutor and victims sit in the same frame as the problem, which is genuinely unsettling in ways most activism films aren't brave enough to hold.
A formally disciplined intervention in the true-crime documentary tradition that refuses sensationalism; the decision to center institutional voices (police, prosecution) alongside survivor testimony creates a rigorous formal argument about systemic inadequacy that recalls the best of legal-procedural nonfiction.
The structural choice to intercut between victim accounts and prosecutorial response—rather than sequencing them—generates a kind of productive friction that makes the legal system's slowness *feel* like violence, which is technically a sound design and editing decision that transforms what could've been straightforward testimony into something that lands in your chest.