Shorts: Feminism Around the World

Event Information

Films:

Brother, Move On / 2018 / Antshi von Moos / Switzerland, India / 9 min

Geeta is one of the few taxi drivers in India. Her taxi service “for women by women” enables women to move freely in the city at any time.
Her motivation is: “The more women become taxi drivers, the less women are afraid to step out of the house.” Geeta’s hope is that the cityscape and atmosphere of the city will increasingly change and so will the position of women in society.

Slutwalk / 2018 / El Mitchell, Ella Connoley & Mercedes Kane / Australia / 5 min

Empowering. Challenging. Unapologetic. Slutwalk is a call to action. As we explore the history of the global feminist movement that is Slutwalk we too look at the ways it fights back against existing rape culture that teaches our girls to avoid being raped instead of teaching our boys not to rape. Slutwalk shines a spotlight onto our biggest human rights story; violence against women, and the stigma fuelled by slut shaming.

The Line / 2018 / Melisa Resch / United States / 12 min

Sparks fly at a Saturday morning clinic defense when dedicated activist Gigi meets punk loner Amber. When they are tasked with escorting a patient into the clinic the women must use ingenuity, courage and teamwork to succeed. Set amidst the massive reproductive rights struggles of the 1990’s, The Line is a coming of age story set against the backdrop of protest.

MIX-MIX / 2018 / Sally Cloninger / United States, Philippines / 23 min

MIX-MIX (HALO-HALO) is a Filipino dessert, a memoir, a treatise on global feminism and misogyny, a coming out story and a metaphor for experimental filmmaking. Like the dessert, it is experimental, complicated, a bit disturbing, layered, not for everyone, but ultimately, refreshing. Shot in the Philippines over a period of three decades.

Waiting for Hassana / Funa Maduka / Nigeria / 10 min

Mo Bai (Black White) / 2018 / Xiao Hu / Canada, China / 38 min

This short experimental documentary introduces a Chinese trans-identified Taoist monk, Mo Bai. In English, this Chinese name Mo Bai means black and white. He was a Buddhist monk before and he can recall what happened in his previous lives. Those memories and religious practice influence how Mo Bai answers this question “Who am I”. While disrupting the dual relations between black and white, this film applies dual channel projection, looping and “speaking nearby” to represent Mo Bai’s narrative of transformation, reincarnation, and temporal extension throughout history.

If you’re interested in global feminism, we recommend you check out our screenings of the feature films On Her Shoulders and Grit!