Dropping the Knife

Dropping the Knife follows the campaign to stop female genital mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan, where local activists have worked village by village to persuade families and midwives to abandon the practice.

Made for the BBC and the Guardian, the film features activists from the campaign, visits one of the villages that has declared itself free of FGM, and follows the work of local filmmaker Nabaz Ahmed, whose films helped bring the issue into the open.