Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over 40 years they were working as prostitutes.
They freed themselves from the control of their pimps, ran their own brothel, and set up the first
informal trade union for prostitutes. Now they bid their farewells. A portrait of these remarkable
women, as well as a history of the Red Light District in Amsterdam over the past fifty years.
LuLu is unlike anyone you've ever met. A hard-living, chainsmoking
rebel with a tender heart. A poet with a potty mouth.
Farm girl. Former cheerleader. World-class cancer researcher.
Beloved professor. Dr. Louise Nutter, or LuLu has just discovered
a new anti-cancer drug when she finds out she is dying of breast
cancer herself at 42. Shot during those last 15 months of LuLu's
life, The LuLu Sessions is a raw, intimate, yet surprisingly
humorous story.
Cotton Candy Daphna MERO ｜2011 ｜Israel ｜Fiction ｜ Color ｜ DigiBeta ｜ 4min
Screening Date & Time: 10/13 14:10 ★ (Filmmaker's Attendance) 10/19 16:50
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Laundromat, a woman is sitting and looking at spinning laundry
drum while she eats a cotton candy. Her hands become sticky
and she becomes dirty, a violent encounter with a stranger
resurfaces. Her action of eating in the present merges with the
past memory; the Laundromat becomes both an interior and
exterior space filled with cotton candy. The machines repetitive
noise fills the Laundromat and dictates the movement inside it.
The sweetness becomes too sweet, sticky and soiling. And she
is spinning.
66 years old director Nili Tal, not wanting to grow old alone,
created an online dating profile and set out to meet potential
suiters from the 1,342 responses, filming her journey of touring
the world in search for true love. An intimate, humoristic and
moving story.
Female is an animated documentary on the difficulties of
childbirth and motherhood. Anonymously, women share their
most intimate secrets of the journey towards childbirth and
beyond. This film is an insight on the reality of their everyday
lives as well as an exploration of the maternal condition.
Sometimes surprising, funny and sad, these touching
testimonies take us to the world of women that share an
exceptional privilege, the one of being called Mom.
How, in 2011, can there still exist myths around female
sexuality? How is it the mere mention of this erotic region
provokes such argument, doubt, and salacious laughter?
How can this simple erogenous zone, mysteriously identified
as the "G spot", be known to all yet... only very few know its
location, its physiology or the story of its discovery? A joyful
and surprising film, with colorful characters, exploring science,
sexual liberation, ideological conflicts, and of course... pleasure.
The Feminist Art Movement was an activist movement, providing
a model of cultural and political change. Art protests were waged
against discrimination and racial exclusion as well as violence
against women. Over time, the tenacity and courage of these
pioneering women artists resulted in what many historians now
feel is the most significant art movement of the 20th century.
A suitcase full of dreams, a journey through of five women's
desires. The documentary was filmed in Spain, and interviewed
Latino women sex workers in Spain. They talked about their
reasons choosing this occupation. Some are mothers who did
this for their family, and others are single women making the
decision themselves, however, most of them desire to escape
from the current situation.
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