Film-Reihe: FRAME_in. doc_ment_in genderf*ck_in (Web)

Zeit: Mittwoch, 20.01.2009, 21.00 Uhr
Ort: Schikaneder-Kino
Eintritt frei
Programm

• (Un)veiled; Doku, US/Dubai 2007, 36 min., R: I. Hofmann Kanna
• Uncomfortable; Doku, FR/Malaysien 2007, 28 min., R: E. Merlin & A. Salzberg
• Rough Cut; Doku, Iran 2007, 22 min., R: Firouzeh Khosrovani

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• (Un)veiled; Doku, US/Dubai 2007, 36 min., R: I. Hofmann Kanna

(un)veiled introduces the audience to ten Muslim women from various backgrounds who now live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
In a time when Islam and especially Muslim women are represented as monolithic and beset by backwardness, the women in (un)veiled show the diverse, lively, argumentative debates in Muslim societies about the meanings of modernity, emancipation, and feminism.

• Uncomfortable; Doku, FR/Malaysien 2007, 28 min., R: E. Merlin & A. Salzberg

Aisyah and Oubaïdah, are two Malay women who are seemingly very different from each other, their common bond is that essentially they are both women and both muslim.
Both women provide their insights on work, sexuality and their relationships with men. We see in their answers, contradictions that echo and reflect off each other, often raising the burning questions of the challenges, battles for identity and place in a Muslim society in the midst of transition.

• Rough Cut; Doku, Iran 2007, 22 min., R: Firouzeh Khosrovani

Rough Cut is a short documentary that reflects upon cultural impositions in Iran, inscribed in the bodies of women.
The film portrays how, in the name of decency and virtue, the female mannequins in shops must eliminate any sign of femininity. Women’s bodies and sexuality are problematic objects that must be approved and governed by the country’s moral institutions.

• Im Anschluss ist Raum für Reflexionen und Meinungsaustausch, die wir gemeinsam bei guten Drinks und feiner Musik von queeren Turntables (DJ Stapelfahrer) fortführen können.

aus: femail@liab.at