OK
Here are a few:
Women's Prison (Zendan-e zanan) (Iran, 2002)
Directed by Manijeh Hekmat. Cast: Roya Nonahali, Roya Taymourian,
Pegah Ahangarani, Golab Adineh, Maryam Boobani. Famously 'banned' for
more than a year by Iranian authorities, this taboo-breaking film is
based on Manijeh Hekmat's long fieldwork, among women prisoners in
Iran. She depicts the lives of Iran's lost generation in the two
decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, using the claustrophobic
life of women behind bars as a metaphor for the entire society. Her
protagonist, Mitra, is in prison for killing her violent stepfather.
On the eve of a prison riot she confronts Tahereh, the new warden,
whose dogmatic views she challenges fearlessly. Over the course of the
next 20 years, Tahereh's attitude toward her prisoners changes and
oftens, which reflects the country's shifting political stance.
Eventually Mitra, aged and exhausted, is finally released, but Tahereh
left behind, is now more like a prisoner herself. 106 min
Osama (Afghanistan / Netherlands / Japan / Ireland / Iran, 2003)
Directed by Siddiq Barmak. Cast: Marina Golbahari, Arif Herati,
Zubaida Sahar. Based on true events, chronicles the story of a
12-year-old girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan who must disguise
herself as a boy to save her family from starvation. The first feature
film made in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era. 83 min.
A Summer in La Goulette (Halq al-Wadi; Un été à la Goulette) (Tunisia /
France / Belgium, 1996)
Director, Férid Boughedir. Cast: Sonia Mankaï, Ava Cohen-Jonathan,
Sarah Pariente, Mustapha Adouani, Guy Nataf, Gamil Ratib, Claudia
Cardinale. Youssef is a Muslim, Jojo is Jewish and Giuseppi is an
Italian Catholic, and they are best of friends until each of their
daughters swears to lose their virginity by a certain date. To make
matters worse, each daughter sets her sights on a boy of a different
religion, thus challenging an inviolable taboo and causing a rift
between their fathers. As the families resolve their differences, the
Six Day War breaks out in the Middle East, which will divide Jews and
Arabs the world over. 100 min.
Daughters of the Sun (Dokhtaran khorshid) (Iran, 2000)
Director Maryam Shahriar. Amanagol, the daughter of a poor rural
family in Iran, becomes Aman when her father shaves her head,
disguises her as a boy, and dispatches her to another village to work
weaving carpets. Her secret is jeopardized when a co-worker falls in
love with her. 92 min.
The Day I Became a Woman (Roozi keh zan shodam) (Iran, 2000)
Director, Marziyeh Meshkini; script, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. A drama
revolving around three portraits of women at three stages of life in
Iran: A nine-year-old girl told she can no longer play with boys
because she is now a "woman", a young woman who enters a bicycle race
against her husband's wishes, and an old woman who gains money and the
freedom to do what she wishes with it. 78 min.
Offsides (Afsaid)(2006)
Director, Jafar Panahi. Cast: Sima Mobarak Shahi, Safar Samandar,
Shayesteh Irani, M. Kheyrabadi, Ida Sadeghi, Golnaz Farmani. During
the 2006 Iran-Bahrain match, the Tehran soccer stadium roars with
100,000 cheering men and, officially, no women. According to Islamic
custom, women are not permitted to watch or participate in men's
sports. Many of the ambitious young female fans who manage to sneak
into the arena are caught and sent to a holding pen, guarded by male
soldiers their own age. Duty makes these young men and women
adversaries, but duty can't overcome their shared dreams, their mutual
attraction, and ultimately their overriding sense of national pride
and humanity. 92 min.
Ten (10) (Iran, 2002)
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami. Featuring: Mania Akbari, Roya Arabshahi,
Katayoun Taleizadeh, Mandana Sharbaf, Ameme Moradi, Amin Maher, Kamran
Adl, Morteza Tabatabai, Bahman Kiarostami, Mastaneh Mohajer, Mazdak
Sepanlu, Reza Yazdani, Vahid Ghazi. Presents a portrait of
contemporary Iran, as seen through the eyes of one woman as she drives
through the streets of Tehran over a period of several days. Her
journey is comprised of ten conversations with various female
passengers, and shed light on the lives of these women whose voices
are seldom heard. 90 min.
Kadosh (Sacred) (Israel, 1999)
Directed by Amos Gitai. The story of two Hasidic sisters living in the
Mea Shearim area of Jerusalem. Rivka and her husband are deeply in
love, but he obeys his rabbi father and divorces her after 10
childless years of marriage. Rivka's sister Malka loves a man who has
left Hasidism after joining the army, but accepts the marriage her
parents have arranged to the rabbi's assistant. 117 min.
Or, My Treasure (My Treasure; Mon Tresor) (Israel, 2004)
Directed by Keren Yedaya. Cast: Ronit Elkabetz, Dana Ivgy, Meshar
Cohen, Katia Zimbris, Shmuel Edelman. Or, a pretty and popular Tel
Aviv high school student, works nights at a neighborhood restaurant
while taking her first tentative steps out of innocence and into first
love. But her real full-time job is looking after her mother who has
worked as a street prostitute for 20 years. The daughter must make a
choice between taking care of her mother's bottomless needs or having
an uncorrupted life of her own. 100 min.
Rana's Wedding (Jerusalem Another Day; Al qods fee yom akhar) (2002)
Directed by Hany Abu-Assad. Cast: Clara Khoury, Khalifa Natour, Ismael
Dabbagh. When Rana is faced with an ultimatum--choose a husband from a
list of eligible, respectable men or leave for Egypt--she goes
searching for a lover of her own choosing. Moving across checkpoints
to the West Bank, finding a wedding dress in a war zone, and settling
family differences all in just ten hours, Rana finds that in
Jerusalem, love has many roadblocks. 86 min.
The Syrian Bride (Ha-Kala Ha-Surit) (France / Germany / Israel, 2004)
Directed by Bruce Humberstone. Cast: Hiam Abbass, Makram J. Khoury,
Clara Khoury, Ashraf Barhom, Eyad Sheety. In this dark comedy a Druze
woman from Golan Heights, through an arranged marriage, is engaged to
marry a Syrian television star whom she has never met. Once she
crosses the border between Israel and Syria to get married, she will
never be allowed back to visit her family in the Golan Heights.
The Stoning of Soraya M. (USA, 2008)
Directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. Cast: Mozhan Marnò, Jim Caviezel, Shohreh
Aghdashloo. When a journalist is stranded in her remote village, Zahra
takes a bold chance to reveal what the villagers will stop at nothing
to keep hidden. Thus begins the remarkable story of what happened to
Soraya, a kind-spirited woman whose bad marriage leads her cruel,
divorce-seeking husband to trump up false charges of infidelity, which
carry an unimaginable penalty. Based on the true story from Freidoune
Sahebjam. 116 min.
XXY(Argentina / France / Spain, 2007)
Directed by Lucía Puenzo. Cast: Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli,
Germán Palacios, Carolina Pelleritti, Martín Piroyansky, Inés Efron.
The dramatic story of a 15-year-old hermaphrodite, born with what the
doctors call 'ambiguous genitalia,' whose parents moved from Buenos
Aires to an isolated cabin outside of Piriápolis, Uruguay, to protect
their child from prejudice. Based on the story "Cinismo" by Sergio
Bizzio. Special feature: This month's short film : The Pick-up artist
/ director, Steffen Weinert (13 min., in German with English
subtitles). 91 min.
> Thanks for all the great suggestions so far. To answer Elizabeth's
> question -- these are some of the topics the instructor is looking to
> explore over the course of the semester, so no, she's not expecting to
> find films that cover all these in one title. She's looking for a
> handful of films from different world cinemas from 2008 or so forward.
>
> Best,
> Meghann
>
> On 7/6/2010 4:19 PM, Elizabeth Sheldon wrote:
>> Must a film contain all of the 'areas of interest' or only one?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Elizabeth
>>
>> Elizabeth Sheldon
>> Vice President
>> Kino Lorber, Inc.
>> 333 W. 39th St., Suite 503
>> New York, NY 10018
>> (212) 629-6880
>>
>> On Jul 6, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Threatt, Monique Louise wrote:
>>
>>> So, does that rule out Antonio’s Line? J
>>> *From:* [email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Meghann
>>> Matwichuk
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 06, 2010 3:32 PM
>>> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> *Subject:* [Videolib] Collective Brain: Gender Issues in Foreign
>>> Feature Films
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> My annual appeal to the collective brain:
>>>
>>> I have a women's studies instructor who teaches a class on gender
>>> issues in world film each fall. She tries to use all new titles each
>>> semester, and it can be a challenge for her to find a new slate each
>>> year. Any recent releases that come to mind would be greatly
>>> appreciated. Here are the topics / areas that are of particular
>>> interest for her: "intersexuality, reproductive rights, marriage
>>> choice, prostitution, religion and cultural gendered practices."
>>>
>>> She is ONLY interested in feature films -- not documentaries.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> *************************
>>> Meghann Matwichuk, M.S.
>>> Associate Librarian
>>> Instructional Media Collection Department
>>> Morris Library, University of Delaware
>>> 181 S. College Ave.
>>> Newark, DE 19717
>>> (302) 831-1475
>>> http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/instructionalmedia/
>>>
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>>
>> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of
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> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of
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> producers and distributors.
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VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues
relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control,
preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and
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