You've smiled at his misery, you've revelled in his glorious obsession with dinosaurs and you've shipped him with Rachel Green for ten years straight. But this Ross Geller is different. This Ross Geller is trying to engage you in a conversation that, unlike planetology, concerns everyone.

A series of six short films by Israeli-American filmmaker, Sigal Avin, touches upon the glaring issue of sexual harassment and features her actor friend, David Schwimmer fondly remembered as Ross Geller from the sitcom, FRIENDS.

Inspired by real-life experiences, the six shorts come with titles like The Coworker, The Actor, The Boss, The Doctor, The Photographer and The Politician. As simple as the titles are, they seek to convey how sexual harassment isn't limited to a particular profession or space and that literally no one is immune to its perils. Originally released in Israel (2016) the series had five parts whereas its American adaptation released in 2017 has six shorts that explore the various forms of sexual harassment.

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In an interview for Cosmopolitan, Avin admitted that one of the six shorts, The Actor, was in fact, inspired by something she experienced nearly 18 years ago.

"The first script I wrote was based on my personal story, the one with the actor. That's something that happened to me about 18 years ago, when I was a young playwright and I came to talk with a very famous star at that point," Cosmopolitan quotes her as saying, before she describes the incident at length.

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Schwimmer, who's the co-producer of the shorts, also mentioned how he "grew up with stories of sexual harassment" from his mom and how "every woman in my family, in my life, has been harassed, except my daughter, thank god, who's only 6."

It must be noted that despite cultural differences, these six shorts aren't merely relevant to Israel or America alone, but also hit close to home. Only recently, a series of sexual harassment allegations were made against the CEO of The Viral Fever, Arunabh Kumar and against the founder of a prominent period product, Miki Agrawal, who were both accused of harassing their colleagues in a workplace environment.

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