Women's Rights Nights 2012
05.08.2012 - Dream Job, 51'

A Film by Danijela Majstorović
www.babe.hr
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Dream Job follows the arrival and adjustment of a young woman, Ilinka, who comes from the country to the town to work as a member of the VIKOM TV orchestra in which girls fakeplay music instruments as a backdrop to other singers. Ilinka thinks this job will help her have an independent living and better future in a gloomy Bosnian poswar reality. Parallely to this, well-known Bosnian singers from the 80s, like Lepa Brena and Hanka Paldum and their younger counterparts tell stories about showbiz now and then.
Dream Job opens issues of the position of women in showbiz, managers, career control, moneymaking and erotic appeal, given the more and more prominent desire of young women in the region to fulfill their dreams by becoming singers, TV anchors or models. It is a tragicomic social critique which raises many questions, but also leaves room for the audience to come up with their own conclusions.
Discussion topic: Women in the entertainment industries - Bodies, Images, Roles
www.babe.hr
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Dream Job follows the arrival and adjustment of a young woman, Ilinka, who comes from the country to the town to work as a member of the VIKOM TV orchestra in which girls fakeplay music instruments as a backdrop to other singers. Ilinka thinks this job will help her have an independent living and better future in a gloomy Bosnian poswar reality. Parallely to this, well-known Bosnian singers from the 80s, like Lepa Brena and Hanka Paldum and their younger counterparts tell stories about showbiz now and then.
Dream Job opens issues of the position of women in showbiz, managers, career control, moneymaking and erotic appeal, given the more and more prominent desire of young women in the region to fulfill their dreams by becoming singers, TV anchors or models. It is a tragicomic social critique which raises many questions, but also leaves room for the audience to come up with their own conclusions.
Discussion topic: Women in the entertainment industries - Bodies, Images, Roles
06.03.2012 - Tobacco Girl, 30'

A Film by Biljana Garvanlieva
www.gebrueder-beetz.de
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Mumine, a 14 year old Turkish girl lives with her family in the high mountains of Macedonia. Her family belongs to the Turkish minority. Mumine’s family needs her for the difficult work in the tobacco fields – their only source of income. Mumine is raised in the tobacco plants and the things that are ripe are sold. She is sold to her future husband for 3000 Euros. Will she find a way out from this ‘law of nature’? She has two possibilities in the village: either to be married or to go to school, but then to be sold to her husband for a higher price. It is her dream to move to the city Skopje to go to school. She wants to become a teacher.
Discussion topic: Opportunities and prospects for young women - Between tradition and modernity
www.gebrueder-beetz.de
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Mumine, a 14 year old Turkish girl lives with her family in the high mountains of Macedonia. Her family belongs to the Turkish minority. Mumine’s family needs her for the difficult work in the tobacco fields – their only source of income. Mumine is raised in the tobacco plants and the things that are ripe are sold. She is sold to her future husband for 3000 Euros. Will she find a way out from this ‘law of nature’? She has two possibilities in the village: either to be married or to go to school, but then to be sold to her husband for a higher price. It is her dream to move to the city Skopje to go to school. She wants to become a teacher.
Discussion topic: Opportunities and prospects for young women - Between tradition and modernity
07.03.2012 - DISH: Women, Waitressing and the Art of Service, 68'

A Film by Maya Gallus
www.dishdocumentary.com
www.redqueenproductions.com
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Dish delves into North American classic diners, the "sexy restos of Montreal", Paris' haute eateries, and Tokyo's fantasy "maid bars" in an insider's look at gender, power, and the art of service. Former waitress and award-winning director Maya Gallus dines out and dishes the dirt with waitresses, restaurant owners, and maitre d's about the demands of the job. From the hustle of a busy truck stop to the discreet hush of a Parisian house of fine dining, Dish serves up a delicious and illuminating look at the lives of women in the restaurant biz, a subject everyone can relate to.
Enter their world. Experience life on the other side. You'll never look at a waitress the same way again.
Discussion topic: The art of service - A job or a profession?
www.dishdocumentary.com
www.redqueenproductions.com
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Dish delves into North American classic diners, the "sexy restos of Montreal", Paris' haute eateries, and Tokyo's fantasy "maid bars" in an insider's look at gender, power, and the art of service. Former waitress and award-winning director Maya Gallus dines out and dishes the dirt with waitresses, restaurant owners, and maitre d's about the demands of the job. From the hustle of a busy truck stop to the discreet hush of a Parisian house of fine dining, Dish serves up a delicious and illuminating look at the lives of women in the restaurant biz, a subject everyone can relate to.
Enter their world. Experience life on the other side. You'll never look at a waitress the same way again.
Discussion topic: The art of service - A job or a profession?
08.03.2011 - What a beautiful democracy, 74'

A film by: Belmin Söylemez, Berke Baş, Haşmet Topaloğlu, Somnur Vardar
www.filmist.org
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Turkey, summer 2007. The general election is in two months time and political campaigning is everywhere. Six different women are working hard to reach the same goal: to be a member of parliament; for the first time in their lives. One successful business woman runs from house visits packed with women to mass-circumcision ceremonies to ensure that her party already in power will gain more seats. Her rival warns women that there would be sharia regime if they don't vote for her opposition party. Meanwhile, the Kurdish candidate tries to console mourning mothers but faces strong criticism because she can't speak Kurdish. And two former sex-workers claim the street even though there is hardly any penny in their pockets and the police are hard on them. There is pressure at every level: Men, money, time, voters and rivals. Istanbul based film collective Filmist's "What A Beautiful Democracy!" is an observational feature documentary reflecting both women's struggle for power and also the social face of today's polarized Turkey.
Discussion topic: Women in political campaigns - What does it take to get elected?
www.filmist.org
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Turkey, summer 2007. The general election is in two months time and political campaigning is everywhere. Six different women are working hard to reach the same goal: to be a member of parliament; for the first time in their lives. One successful business woman runs from house visits packed with women to mass-circumcision ceremonies to ensure that her party already in power will gain more seats. Her rival warns women that there would be sharia regime if they don't vote for her opposition party. Meanwhile, the Kurdish candidate tries to console mourning mothers but faces strong criticism because she can't speak Kurdish. And two former sex-workers claim the street even though there is hardly any penny in their pockets and the police are hard on them. There is pressure at every level: Men, money, time, voters and rivals. Istanbul based film collective Filmist's "What A Beautiful Democracy!" is an observational feature documentary reflecting both women's struggle for power and also the social face of today's polarized Turkey.
Discussion topic: Women in political campaigns - What does it take to get elected?
Exhibition of illustrations and excerpts of academic research
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