From silence to solutions: Ending gender-based violence is possible

Sakhi for South Asian Survivors and #StandWithHer invite you to a powerful evening of film, dialogue, and collective imagination at SNF Nostos.

The program will feature a one-hour screening of To Kill a Tiger, the Academy Award–nominated documentary directed by Nisha Pahuja. The film follows a father’s extraordinary pursuit of justice after his young daughter is sexually assaulted, illuminating both the brutal realities of gender-based violence and the extraordinary courage required to challenge it.

Following the screening, join a moderated panel discussion with Sakhi’s Executive Director Kavita Mehra and filmmaker Nisha Pahuja. Rather than centering only on harm, the conversation will focus on a question that is too often left unasked: is gender-based violence solvable?
Drawing from frontline survivor-led work, global advocacy, the making of the film and the power of story to shift culture around gender-based violence, the panel will explore what it takes to move from awareness to accountability—and from outrage to structural change. Topics will include the role of community, culture, and systems in sustaining, the conditions that make justice possible, and how survivors and movements have already built pathways toward prevention and transformation.

This evening is an invitation to think beyond inevitability and toward action. It is for anyone who believes that gender-based violence is not an unsolvable reality, but a collective failure—and therefore a collective responsibility to change.