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Davis Feminist Film Fest 2021

Documentary film, self-portrait made during the quarantine period due to the global pandemic by COVID-19, in which a self-exploration of the body and its relationship with freedom and confinement is made.

Content Warnings: Contains Adult Content and Nudity

Aleinad

Zahra began to work at age 16 due to financial problems and now she has her tailoring workshop and dozens of people work for her. Despite the problems and hardships of production and selfemployment, she is satisfied with her job. Zahra gets more and more successful day by day because of her love and willpower towards her job.

Content Warnings: Adult Content

ALLAGOL

Enjo leaves home for school like every morning. But he accidentally spots an Eastern Hoolock Gibbon, hidden in a cluster of trees. Despite being warned by grandma Dibili, Enjo waits to take a deep look at this gibbon. What happens when grandma Dibili finds out about this interaction?

Set amidst a picturesque village in the Northeast India, the film AMEPÃ is about a child's inquisitiveness towards an animal. The film takes inspiration from community based conservation practices. Idu Mishmi tribe from the Northeast India protects vulnerable specie of Hoolock gibbons through deep rooted folk beliefs and narratives. The film aims to spark a conversation about human's relationship with animals.

AMEPÃ

[B]ELLAS successfully breaks the stereotype that conceives aging women as vulnerable, dependent and pleasing beings through a vindication of their experience, bodies, capacities, wrinkle and beauty.

Content Warnings: Adult Content, Brief Nudity and Nudity

[B]ELLAS

Bahar Doğru lives in the village of Barbaros, Urla. She starts work in a coffehouse at age 45. At first, she gets bad reactions from the village. Her work contributes to the change & perspective of the village. She sets a great example for women, who start to frequent to her coffeeshop and begin to work, inspired by her.

Content Warnings: Contains Adult Content & Language.

BAHAR

How does our dual existence give space to explore and define our identity?
Living under occupation permanently threatens the Palestinian existence and identity. Leading to a double identity in various forms; including dispersal between freedom and restrictions. And these dispersions create people of two worlds.
The Face Jewelry collection allows a person to choose the identity of how they want to appear to the outside world; that the inner essence is not affected and they can coexist between two worlds.

Behind The Veil

A girl helps four boys examine and understand why it's difficult for them to show their vulnerabilities and be open about their emotions in today's society.

Content Warning: Brief Nudity.

Boys don't cry

Koshi Ainbobo, meaning in Shipibo Konibo "Brave Women", its a documentary that narrates the storys of two native women from the Amazon forest, the normalization of sexual violence, the right to choose over the women's body and motherhood. And how, despiste all, they want to continue studying to become professionals.

Brave Women

A lonely prostitute finds support in a single, drug dealing, mother. Their loyalty is tested after a traumatic incident.

Content Warnings: Adult Content, Adult Language, Mild Violence, Brief Nudity, and Strong Sexual Content.

Butterflies

This is a late apology, a late love letter, a late goodbye.

Content Warning: Adult Content, Adult Language, Graphic Language.

Closeted Lesbian

A documentary exploring the real stories and experiences of high school age teens navigating the complex world of consent, rape culture, and intimate relationships.

Content Warnings: Adult Content and Adult Language.

Consent: How Rape Culture Affects Teen Development and Relationships

COVID RESPONSE ~ A Himalayan story, is a documentary on the ongoing global pandemic and how it affects a remote Himalayan state in India. The film is a critical look at the various ways in which people’s suffering- mental, physical and financial, have been worsened by the novel coronavirus.

The 25-minute documentary celebrates Himachal Pradesh’s self-reliance and resilience. Viewers will get to witness incredible stories of people on the frontline of this global health crisis- from doctors, nurses to social health volunteers. The film touches upon the migrant crisis in India through the eyes of Aditi, a young environmental activist who turned to labour rights overnight. Artists like Meenakshi- program director of Dharamshala’s community radio, worked everyday throughout India’s historic lockdown to make sure the people were informed on the latest government guidelines, during one of the world’s most uncertain times. The documentary also highlights the work of rural development organisations like CORD, that have worked tirelessly for decades to uplift women and empower villages - work that was very handy during this pandemic.

The objective of the film is to highlight loopholes in India’s healthcare and administrative systems while celebrating front-line workers.

Covid response ~ A Himalayan Story

A deranged man promotes his fried chicken restaurant.

Coxswain's Chicken Kitchen

For the first few days after she awoke from her coma, Dani Burt didn't know her right leg, from just above the knee down, was gone. When the doctors finally told her the full extent of her injuries, Burt, an active, hungry-for-life person, wasn't sure if she could go on. But she found the courage to continue through surfing, which led her on a path to becoming the first-ever women's World Adaptive Surfing champion.

Dani Burt

Throughout America, women organized tea parties for meetings and fundraisers to support the suffrage movement. The Woman’s Suffrage Party sold ceylon, young hyson, gunpowder, and oolong tea under their charitable brand “Equality Tea.” Yet the history of tea is steeped in inequality, driven by colonialism, war, and appropriation. In her short film, Equality Tea, Sunwoo brews tea while drawing parallels between the fraught histories of the tea trade and the suffrage movement.
Written, directed, animated, and narrated by Jaime Sunwoo. Original score by Matt Chilton, based on a 1895 suffragist anthem by Augusta Gray Gunn. Commissioned by Park Avenue Armory and The Laundromat Project for 100 Years | 100 Women.

Equality Tea

Bruno is a transgender boy who doesn't believe in marriage, but a few months ago he learned that his friends from Iquitos Almendra and Luko were married in Argentina and returned to Peru. So he decided to go to Iquitos to dispel his doubts.

Content Warning: Adult Content.

Getting married

The vision of President Shimon Peres is universal & eternal: sport has the power to unite youth from different cultures and background: Arabs and Jewish girls play football in mixed groups, help each other win and build friendship for a better future. In this case, sport also strengths feminist identity, motivation and abilities

Girls Soccer Beyond Borders

Vaginismus is a condition in which involuntary contractions of muscles in the vagina makes penetration impossible. It has been considered a psychological problem without specific treatment but the protagonists of this shortfilm prove these theories wrong with their stories of overcoming vaginismus with physiotherapy.
Diana, Iraida and Jacqueline begin to shape an artistic project that they want to exhibit soon. Montse began years ago to organize an association. All of them want vaginismus to stop being invisible, and for that they have to name it and tell it. Because as they well know, what has no name does not exist.

Godmothers: vaginismus stories

When her best friend dies of the COVID-19, a girl reassesses her entire place in society.

This quarantine got me thinking about my place in society, the role of an artist in times of a crisis as well as all the simple every-day moments we used to enjoy before. I reflected on loss, what does it feel like to lose someone, particularly when you weren't with them during their last moments? Between New Orleans and Paris, I tried to reflect on some questions that were on my mind.

I'm the survivor of your chaos

There are problems that are usually kept silent. 15% of the population have problems with having children. And me too. I want to show the world that we are not broken or defective people. And first of all we need to understand this ourselves.

Content Warning: Adult Content.

Infertility 2.0

A clear decision surrounded by mixed feelings. A young woman recounts her experience with abortion.

Content Warning: Adult Content and Brief Nudity.

Inside me

“Jeijay” begins where most romantic movies end. Two people try to repress the slow but inevitable decay of their relationship. Feeling isolated in their little home, more & more of the happy facade of their love life comes crumbling down. The profound melancholia of the subject is captured in everyday moments that intertwine with dreamlike sequences.

Content Warning: Nudity.

jeijay

A heartfelt letter to tell the mother the most painful of secrets. Amina, who in 2002 was the small protagonist of Ten by Kiarostami is now a transgender director who tries to make her voice heard, understood, and be understood.

Letter to my mother

A video-art about sexual oppression and loosing innocence

Content Warnings: Adult Content and Mild Violence.

Love Darts

Mariela Ducase Works in the laundry of one of the top film schools in Cuba. She is a great support for the students who stay there and someone they can confide in. MARIELA is a simple, personal portrait that subtly deals with maternity and Santería in Cuban society.

Mariela

The protagonist, who had a career shift from a court-room reporter to a one-person media reporter, gains a mysterious power from chestnut and uses this power to find his/her news. However, she takes on step further to pass judgment of her own, deciding who the victims the perpetrators are by pulling the strings of the public opinion.

Content Warning: Mild Violence.

Neuron

Luz and Denise grow up in the midst of the adversities of being LGBT in the extreme south of the city of São Paulo. Between fashion and poetry, making your way to the city. The dreams and uncertainties of youth flood their existences.

Content Warning: Adult Language.

PERIFERICU

Rita is an 18 year old girl who sees many problems in her community, so she decides to be a candidate for the position of Council within her community to fight for the improvement of the living conditions of the indigenous Chimilas.

Proowa (Yucca)

Rawhya is a 60 year old mother with 3 special needs sons, living all together under one roof in a village.
The moment you hear Rawhya's story you think it would be a sad one, but this one is different, her story is full of strength, love and faith.
The film is about Rawhya's heart that became her sons' haven

Content Warning: Adult Language.

Rawhya's safe haven

Laura Serrano is about to debut in her first professional boxing match in Las Vegas. She has fought an entire systemized empire to achieve her dream. However, Laura Serrano does not know that she still has to fight hand-to-hand with the greatest opponent of all ... will she win this battle?

The Ring Poet

Hair and constructions of identity are often deeply intertwined. Influenced by the intersections of African hair, femininity and personal identity, "Scalp Deep" captures the struggles of a young African woman as she navigates the reactions and expectations of others after she decides to commit to a new look.

Scalp Deep

Blanca Regalado witnessed the femicide of her sister, Susan Regalado. In this short he recounts the horror that Susan lived with her life partner, with whom she had been married for 21 years and ended up stabbing her in her bed.

Content Warning: Mild Violence.

Signs

A documentary film following a not so simple yet simple love story between a tomboy and a transvestite man in Myanmar.

Content Warning: Adult Content.

A Simple Love Story

Someone puts a VHS in a videorecorder. As soon as the videotape is played, television images of all kind appear on the screen. The images are blurred: these are Beatrice’s childhood memories. Just like the videotapes are inevitably blurred, so are the memories of her childhood. That’s the beginning of a journey in which the film-maker processes some of the most important moment

Superheroes without Superpower

A baby, the firstborn, comes into this world. Though her parents are human, the baby is a fish - and into the lake she is thrown.
Another baby is born. This little girl knows not of her older sister, but the two will meet, over shared blood and history, and through the future generation. This is the story of a common occurrence - a stillborn - told in an uncommon way, and the journey a sister will make to meet her kin.

A Tasty Fish

With the near future, where the fourth industrial revolution has taken place, and the employment rate and marriage rate plummeting, the government will enact a bill to regularly tax sperm and eggs for healthy adults aged 18-45. In a blind spot in the law where the illegal tax market has been formed, teenager Yeon Hee receives a business card by an illegal proxy tax broker..
Can Yeon Hee really defend herself in this absurd system?

The tax

We cannot explain anxiety, but we can feel it. This film was created for the project ‘This is me eating ___’, by the NYC-based theater company Et Alia Theater, and proposes a dialogue about the relationship between ANXIETY and PANDEMIC.

Content Warning: Graphic Language.

THIS IS ME EATING MY ANXIETY

Exploring the intimacy of the mundane, sống ở đây focuses on the lives of Vietnamese shrimpers and elderly farmers in New Orleans, understanding the reverberations of the past, present in day to day labor.

to live here

Youth examine systemic misogyny in their school district and how they believe students have been discriminated, silenced, and harassed by site administrators and district officials. This film seeks to illustrate how districts often treat their students and the filmmakers hope that this film encourages youth from around the world to use their voices to break down the systems that they believe are seeking to oppress them.

Two Girls and their Misogynist School District

2020, Winter. Pandemic. Isolation. Biographical facts penned on paper. Ancestry, memory, emptiness, prejudice, betrayal. Virus is an audiovisual poetic experience. Revolution. A healing cry for myself and many others alike. I must speak.

Content Warning: Brief Nudity.

Virus

The documentary follows the rehearsals of the 'Projeto Voz Própria' (Own Voice Project), focused on the therapeutic treatment of imprisoned women, for a gig at the Women's Penitentiary Chapel in São Paulo.

Content Warnings: Adult Content and Adult Language.

When Women Sing

Yael returns from India to the Kibbutz, where she lives with her mother, with her leg in a cast. She yearns for a room of her own, outside her mother's house. Will Yael be willing to pay the price for her own space?

Content Warnings: Adult Content and Strong Sexual Content.

Yael's Room

During the COVID-19 self-quarantine, a nurse finds herself experiencing mixed emotions including loneliness, boredom, and fear; as attacks on Asian Americans hit closer and closer to home.

This film was made with nearly all Asian cast and crew, including the director, writers, DP, and 3 cast members.

Content Warning: Adult Content.

Zenophobia
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