Observatorio Sur · Buenos Aires, Argentina
Multicultural Women’s Advocacy
Community Cultural Inclusion Officer
Tuggeranong Arts Centre
Present
Africa Through the Eyes of Women
12th to 14th March at 6.30pm
Dendy Cinemas
Canberra Centre
Level 2-148 Bunda St- Bookings 62218900
A Film Festival in celebration of the International Women’s Day March 2013
Open by:
The Minister for Women, Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Minister for the Arts
Ms Joy Burch, MLA
A suite of 5 documentary films from the African Continent to Australia from South Africa, Burkina Faso, Morocco, Namibia and Egypt directed by African Women. The documentaries cover issues relevant to documenting the reality of these women’s lives from their perspectives.
The Film Festival will be hosted over 3 nights and will feature a Q&A where the audience can participate and engage in conversation about the films and share their perspectives.
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Program
12th – 6.30 pm
HOT WAX
Origin: South Africa
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Direction: Andrea Spitz
Sinopsis: Ivy is a black woman who managed to run her own beauty salon surreptitiously during the dark days of apartheid. She lives in Alexandra, a restless and poor township, while her white, mostly elderly, clients live in the tree-lined suburbs of Johannesburg. In her salon she is part beautician, long-time friend, lay counselor and honest commentator to her customers. While she masks her clients’ imperfections, she also peels away layers of difference separating the races.
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12th – 7.30pm
TRACES, EMPREINTES DE FEMMES
Origin: Belgium, Burkina Faso, Senegal
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Direction: Katy Lena
Sinopsis: Traces, Women’s Imprints” is a film that ventures to the discovery of three grandmothers kassenas (Burkina Faso), their granddaughter, and the exclusively feminine art of this region’s mural paintings. Between these women’s portraits and a traditional art form, “Traces” is a painting on paintings that reflects upon transmission, education and memory in the context of a world in mutation.
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13th – 6.30pm
EL BATALETT, WOMEN FROM THE MEDINA
Origin: Morocco and France
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Duration: 60 min.
Direction: Dalila Ennadre
Sinopsis: In this documentary Dalila Ennadre captures women’s ordinary lives in the kitchens and living rooms of this Moroccan female community. Between their home walls, they devote their entire lives to take care of their families by cooking and cleaning, they help each other. They also go to the market, to the hammam and they discuss women’s matters in everyday life as well as political events which they see on television.
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7.30pm
COURTING JUSTICE
Origin: South Africa
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Direction: Ruth Cowan, Jane Thandi Lipman
Sinopsis: Courting Justice features seven South African women judges, all of whom were New Democracy appointments. They serve on the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of Appeal and the provincial High Courts. They speak to us while at work in their court rooms and chambers, at home and in the communities in which they were raised. Courting Justice is their story. It is a very personal story, revealing the challenges they confront working in a previously all-male institution and the sacrifices they make to effect the Constitution’s human rights promises.
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14th – 6.30pm
THE HOUSE OF LOVE
Origin: Namibia
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Direction: Cecil Moller
Sinopsis: Trapped between sea and desert under a sky of molten lead, the port of Welvis Bay in Namibia is an open prison for a small community of women forced to prostitute themselves for a living.
Isolated, dependent, awaiting the few sailors passing through, AIDS is all they have to look forward to. Discreetly, Cecil Moller records statements of the experience of these women, their own stories, their daily combat and their hopes for redemption, supported by religious movements that preach their rehabilitation.
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7.30pm
Forum
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With the support from
