The ART Fusion Association organizes the fourth edition of Bucharest Feminist Film Festival, the edition BODYduring the period October 17-20the Peasant Museum Cinema. You can purchase subscriptions or tickets online.
What films await you in this new edition?
The opening of this year’s Bucharest Feminist Film Festival is dedicated to Palestine, and the Palestinian women who shape the cultural landscape, whether they are activists, entrepreneurs or artists. They invite us to discover their stories, culture and identity in a war-torn territory. Palestinian Women: A guide to cultural resistance was directed in 2020, by Mariette Auvray.
On Friday, October 18, we bring to the festival the documentary starring Jane Fonda, Body partswhich traces the evolution of “sex” on screen from a woman’s perspective, exposes the uncomfortable realities behind some of Hollywood’s most iconic scenes, and celebrates the people who are talking about what’s going on behind the scenes & making a difference.
The movie Fat Frontwhich you can see on Saturday, October 19, at the Peasant Museum Cinema, tells the story of four young women from Norway, Denmark & Sweden. They talk about acceptance & self-love, and demystify beauty standards around weight. Directed in 2019 by Louise Detlefsen, Louise Unmack Kjeldsen, the documentary film promotes the activist movement in the Nordic countries, which is centered around the concept of body positivity.
The feature film with which we close this year’s edition on Sunday, October 20, invites us to explore the intimate story of hope, rebellion, violence and sisterhood that takes shape once two of the four daughters of Olfa, a Tunisian woman, disappear. Their disappearance calls into question the principles of society and invites us to reflect on our own freedom. Directed in 2023 by Kaouther Ben Hania, Four Daughters presents a fascinating and disturbing history of generational female trauma, intertwined with the history of Tunisia itself.
In addition to the 4 feature films, at this year’s edition we have also prepared 3 short film clips. Resilient Bodies it takes us through different processes and stages of relationship with our bodies. From dance and the freedom of movement we have, whether we fit classical beauty standards or not, to exploring questions about what ‘normality’ means and what is the limit of pain our bodies can endure, the short films from this mold I bring to the surface stories of violence, abuse, escape and healing – whether it’s healing through sport, through art, or through the courage to leave an abusive relationship. The short films in this category show us realities from Romania, Belgium, France, Guatemala and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and all have in common the construction of a narrative thread that shows us how our bodies learn to live with their traumas, and how they are more powerful than we know.
Short films category Reclaiming Bodies takes us through a series of stories where the body is art – whether we are presented with a history of women in painting and photography and an analysis of portraits that question the patriarchal order, or a story of how burlesque becomes a way to create diverse communities encouraging each other in discovering their own sensuality, this series of films invites us to discover new perspectives on bodies. An unashamed perspective, a manifesto about embracing sexuality, about the right to have honest conversations about pleasure.
Controlling bodies explores both the perspectives in which we have control over our bodies and moments in which they do not (anymore) belong to us. From illustrating the role of motherhood, to the sexualization of bodies in the workplace, to sexual abuse and the reinforcement of rape culture, the short films in this category brought from countries in Europe and Asia invite us to reflect on how much we or the people of around us is a choice or not, but also what is the role we play in the societies we live in – exploring, at the same time, the conflicts between conservative societies and sexuality. Everyday situations like walking down the street show us how sexual harassment is a constant, and a diagnosis or a pregnancy can completely change the relationship with the body and the way we look at it.
Bucharest Feminist Film Festival 2024 is a cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
Partners: German Embassy in Romania, Swedish Embassy in Romania, Romanian Peasant Museum, Peasant Museum Cinema
Media partners: IQads, Zile și Nopți, Cărturesți, Munteanu recommends, Spotmedia.roFilm Menu, Movienews.roCultural Observatory, Freedom, The Woman, Cinefan.ro, Cinefilia.roAivi Media, Cultura la Dubă, E-Zeppelin Magazine, Propagarta, Golan Magazine, Contemporary Lynx Magazine.
Sponsors: Uber, Familia Darabont, Sprizz
Source: www.iqads.ro
