This year, This Life Cambodia (TLC) produced a short film entitled
Not Her Fault to raise awareness of domestic violence as part of the UN’s 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence campaign.
In its two-minute video, a young woman opens a wardrobe, takes out a white ultra-thin T-shirt and recalls a proverb her mother told her as a child – “without the hook, the fruit does not fall”.
The proverb reminded her of what happened once when she rode her motorbike home from the gym.
“Was it my fault? How? My clothes? Without the hook, the fruit does not fall,” she says in the short film.