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New Landscape of Women's Clinema
10.26 | Sun | 20:30 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
Mermaid
Once upon a time a girl named Alisa lived by the sea. The only unusual thing about Alisa was her gift of making wishes come true. Eventually she found herself in Moscow where she met a man with a cross on his chest that read "save and protect". Alisa took one look at the man, and her life was changed forever...
10.21 | Tue | 16:10
10.22 | Wed | 12:20 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
Mheejou
Mheejou is a naughty Akha hill tribe girl. When a young woman from a charity in Bangkok arrives to set up a community television station in their village, Mheejou decides that she should become the star of Bannok TV...Film marks the directorial debut of Sukanya Vongsthapat,producer of Ong Bak, 13 and Love of Siam.
10.18 | Sat | 15:50
10.21 | Tue | 17:50
10.26 | Sun | 10:20 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
WE WANT ROSES TOO
Structured around the diaries of three women, this unusual documentary is a striking visual montage of television commercials, animation, historical footage and anatomical materials that explores the deep changes brought on by the sexual revolution and feminist movement in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s.
10.19 | Sun | 16:00
10.22 | Wed | 14:00
10.24 | Fri | 17:35 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
HOLLY GETS EVEN
At a Palestinian school, Holly plays basketball with her best friend Ramtha. Two boys, Jonny and Daniel, challenge the girls to a match. When it's clear that they will lose the game, Daniel pulls down Holly’s pants. Humiliated, Holly refuses to return to school... until Ramtha proposes a plan to get even!
10.20 | Mon | 18:10
10.24 | Fri | 12:10 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
MEMORY EFFECT
Anna has been having a series of disturbing nightmares. She encounters another women, Aylin, whose own life seems to be linked to the nightmares. The dreams begin to dominate Anna’s life and she becomes lost in the stranger’s mysterious world. She decides to find out what it is that connects them.
10.20 | Mon | 14:30
10.21 | Tue | 14:15 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
OVER NO THINGS
Lin Yen-chao's abstract visual poem invites audiences to experience the passage of time and the melancholic nostalgia of aging. The strangely romantic piece captures a natural stage of being in which the fading of life becomes something conscious and every lived moment brings one ever closer to closure.
10.19 | Sun | 10:30
10.21 | Tue | 10:30 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
LAKSHMI AND ME
21-year-old housemaid Lakshmi works ten hours a day, seven days a week for various middle-class families in the city of Mumbai. One of her employees, independent documentary filmmaker Nishtha Jain, begins to film her. The boundary between subject and observer break down in unexpected ways.
10.20 | Mon | 14:30
10.21 | Tue | 14:15 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
BACHELORETTE, 34
Kara's mother is obsessed with getting her daughter married. But Kara, a single artist and filmmaker in San Francisco, has her doubts. Through the microcosm of her often hilarious interactions with her mom, this documentary mixes animation to examine the pressure society puts on women to conform to society's norms.
10.22 | Wed |10:30
10.23 | Thu | 12:35 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
CRYING WHILE BEING KILLED
A town where crying and running are forbidden.
Everything is under surveillance.
A woman is crying. A stranger is running.
A roof. A baptism.
10.19 | Sun | 10:30
10.21 | Tue | 10:30 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
DIVING WOMEN OF JEJU-DO
For hundreds of years, the women of Juju Island have dived to the ocean floor without breathing apparatus to collect shellfish, octopus and urchins. But this ancient women's tradition is about to die as the elderly divers' daughters do not want to inherit the work, lifestyle and health problems of their parents.
10.20 | Mon | 12:30
10.23 | Thu | 10:30 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
MOM
On Claudia's wedding day, her mother Ann fails to show up. With minutes to go before the marriage vows, Claudia decides to fetch her absent mother. She discovers that her mother, who had her own failed marriage and was anything but a natural role model, is afraid of losing her daughter. What will Claudia do?
10.20 | Mon | 22:00
10.22 | Wed | 15:55 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
ZHAO
In the near future of 2025, Zhao is 25 years old. Adopted by a Spanish family, her happy childhood was cut short by their sudden death. She goes to the seaside with her boyfriend Martin where she begins to write the story of her life, studies Chinese for the first time and makes a life-changing decision.
10.20 | Mon | 10:30
10.22 | Wed | 23:20 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
MADE IN L.A.
Illegal immigrants María, Lupe and Maura work twelve hours a day in a Californian sweatshop. Unpaid, they file a lawsuit against their employer seeking basic labor protection. Their three year legal struggle is a rousing award-winning study of immigration, the power of unity, and the courage it takes to find your voice.
10.22 | Wed | 10:30
10.23 | Thu | 12:35 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
CLOTHESLINE
The Israeli invasion of Ramallah begins at 2am on March 28, 2002. For 21 days, the filmmaker is a prisoner in her apartment. In an orgy of fear and terror, her hidden demons surface as shelling and bombing rages outside as she fights her own emotional war with a relationship gone wrong.
10.19 | Sun | 18:00
10.22 | Wed | 21:10 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
SHANGHAI RUMBA
The third film in Peng Xiaolian's Shanghai trilogy is based on a true story at the end of the golden age of Chinese cinema as the political turbulence of the late 1940s encroached. The beautiful Wanyu has married into a wealthy family but is irresistibly drawn into the world of the movies and famous actor Ah Chuan.
10.22 | Wed | 10:30
10.23 | Thu | 12:35 (Choose time to view the Screening Schedule)
TRAGIC STORY WITH HAPPY ENDING
Animation about a girl whose heart beats too quickly. It is so loud that people around her have trouble sleeping. Friends and family become accustomed to the abnormality and stop enquiring about her well-being. Whether she lives or dies or flies away like a bird, it's as if nobody would care. What is a happy ending?
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