Love+War

There is occasional use of footage of real armed conflict, terrorist attacks and rioting, sometimes accompanied by strong aftermath images of dead and injured people.

The film contains intense footage of conflict and unrest, including shelling, gunfire, fleeing civilians and burning buildings. In another sequence, Addario describes having been kidnapped in Libya in 2011, during which she was beaten, sexually assaulted and threatened with guns.

There is use of strong language (‘f**k’). Milder terms include ‘shit’, ‘ass’, ‘bastard’ and ‘crap’.

Condemnatory references are made to the oppression of women and girls under the Taliban regime, as well as to sexism within the male-dominated world of war journalism.

There are infrequent non-graphic references to sexual assault and abuse.

A scene contains distressing verbal and visual references to suicide and attempted suicide amongst women and girls facing persecution and abuse under an oppressive regime.

Strong injury detail includes photographs of blood and dead bodies in the aftermath of war violence, and of women being treated for severe burn wounds after attempting suicide by self-immolation. There are also brief images of emaciated infants affected by famine.

There is upsetting footage and photography of people grieving and in distress during humanitarian crises such as war and famine. A person gives an account of witnessing a woman dying in childbirth.