#Female Pleasure

Gabriela Betschart (Cinematographer) will attend virtual after-screening talk.

Director: Barbara Miller
Cinematographer: Jiro Akiba, Gabriela Betschart, Anne Misselwitz          
Cast: Deborah Feldman, Leyla Hussein, Rokudenashiko

Switzerland, Germany | 2018 | 101’ | In English, German and Japanese with English subtitles | DCP | Colour

Awards
Best Documentary, Victoria Film Festival, Canada 2020
Best Documentary, Romy Gala, Austria 2019
Premio Zonta Club Award, Locarno International Film Festival 2018

Nomination
Best Documentary, Editing, Swiss Film Award 2019

Festivals
Seattle International Film Festival 2019
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2018

As we live in an inherited world of archaic patriarchal communities, many enlightened, innovative and courageous women break their silence to create new ways of life. In this revealing documentary, five women that have been oppressed by sociocultural prejudice and religious dogmas fight back – for sexual liberation, as well as intellectual and emotional autonomy. They are originally from Japan, India, Somalia, Germany and the US. Their victory has come at a high price: they have experienced public defamation, threats and prosecutions. Their fight still goes on with optimism – not only for themselves, but also for the pleasure and peace of new generations of women.

Cinematographer, Gabriela Betschart, recalled her shooting of the film, “The different stories and women touched me deeply. With the smallest crew (director and me), we tried to give a visual face to these stories and emotions.”