Eleven documentary films broach the issue of women- and sociopolitical topics of today. You will see courageous fighters, contemporary witnesses and well-known women.
GV/EV - german/english version
ogs/oes - original with german/english subtitles
Bahareh Hosseini, Afghanistan 2007,
Documentary, 50 min, color, DVD , oes
Intimate insight into the lives of young girls who grew up during the time of the Taliban and are now on the path to their own future. Soccer is a chance for them to gain confidence. In spite of positive changes girls today still suffer unstable conditions and civil repressions.
The documentary includes violent scenes recorded during the time of the Taliban-regime.
Alina Rudnitskaya, Russia 2007,
Documentary, 29 min, color, DVD , oes
Great changes in Russia’s society during the last years have also effected relations between sexes and the role of women. How can I find the man of my dreams? And: why am I alone? – These questions drive young women to attending the „Bitch Academy”, where they are taught the art of seduction and devotion in an atmosphere of sexism and abuse.
Maria Theresa Camogliu, Germany 2008,
Documentary, 94 min, color, DVD, GV
Seven girls who suffer from anorexia (eating disorder) live in a rehabilitation clinic. Surprisingly open and reflected these young women give account of their illness, which has nothing to do with widespread clichés.
Katrin Seybold, Germany 2008,
Documentary, 92 min, color, DVD, GV
The „white rose” is synonymous for Sofie and Hans Scholls resistance. This is the first general documentation of the group’s resistance during the years 1942 and 1943: companions, friends and siblings tell how they supported flyer campaigns, lived through Gestapo interrogations and court, how they managed their lives after the Second World War. Some of them have never been interviewed before.
Eva Mulvad, Afghanistan/Denmark 2007,
Documentary, 59 min, color, DVD, oes
Malalai Joya is one of the candidates for the first democratic elections in Afghanistan after the war in 2005. At the Loya Jirga a national assembly in 2003 she criticised the Mujahedin Warlords and gained national celebrity. The film accompanies this exceptional woman on her campaign.
Sundance Film Festival awarded.
David Edwards, Gregory Whitmore, Maliha Zulfacar, Afghanistan 2006,
Documentary, 84 min, color, DVD , oes
This documentary shows different perspectives and interests of local and international players in Kabul: an adviser tries to convince the Home Secretary to buy modern water cannons; the Nato-Camp’s Commander talks about soldierly life in the crisis area; students explain their views on political changes during the Karasai administration ...
Ibtisam Salh Mara'ana, Israel 2008,
Documentary, 56 min, color, DVD, oes
It is Duah Fares dream to become a top model. She manages to be permitted to participate in an Arabic as well as an Israeli beauty contest. What starts out like a fairy tale turns into a persecution, since her wish is in conflict with moral codes of her religious group which tries by all means to cross Duahs plans.
Bodenstein Uta, Germany 2007,
Documentary, 66 min, color, DVD, GV
Stalking is associated mainly with celebrities. In reality most of this obsessive behaviour takes place within the private realm. „Nie mehr allein” shows two women who share there lives with a stalker.
Daniel Burkholz und Sybille Fezer, India 2008,
Documentary, 42 min, color, DVD, ogs
In the province of Gujarat in northwest India the „Women for Justice” have founded a court to save women from domestic and sexual violence which usually remains unprosecuted. The trials are held in public under a tree outside a slum area ...
Gertraud Schwarz, Austria 2009,
Documentary, 93 min, color, DVD, GV
Six portraits of Austrian women who run a farm on their own. All deal in different ways with their work, and the question of social acceptance ...
Maria Binder and Verena Franke, Germany 2006,
Documentary, 64 min, color, DVD, ogs
Women and transsexuals from Istanbul speak about their experience of sexualized torture by the state: how they are trying to come to terms with it, and about their struggle for social change. They have spoken out in public, denouncing the torture they suffered. For some of them, this has resulted in legal prosecution, they have been indicted for slandering the Turkish state.