| Live Containers
– Tajikistan
(Orzu Sharipov/2002/26 min./video)
Women attempting to feed their families use their bodies as containers
for trafficking heroin.
Hack Workers – Uzbekistan
(Furkat Yavkalkhodzhaev/2002/20 min./video)
Banished by their families and society, these women are doomed to
the slave market and to widespread violence.
Red Butterflies Where Two Springs Merge
– Kyrgyzstan
(Gaukhar Sydykova and Dilia Ruzieva/2002/14 min./video)
An elderly traditional rug maker from a remote village becomes a
community leader and internationally-recognized celebrity for her
artistic vision.
Silk Patterns – Mongolia
(Uranchimeg Nansalmaa/2003/26 min./video)
While Mongolian girls receive high levels of education, many end
up as sources of cheap labor.
Panel Discussion
Panelists discuss acute, yet overlooked problems in each country,
particularly human rights violations, institutionalized inequality
and gender stereotyping. Including Furkat Yavkalkhodzhaev, writer,
Internews Uzbekistan, and film director, Hack Workers; Elena Vitenberg,
Institute for Social and Gender Policy (Russia); and Phoebe Schreiner,
Open Society Institute. |
Wishing for Seven
Sons and One Daughter – Azerbaijan (Ali-Isa
Djabbarov/2002/26 min./video)
Patriarchal families favor boys, not girls. The use of ultrasound
technology to design the “ideal” family is shown in
this film.
Beauty of the Fatherland – Estonia
(Jaak Kilmi and Andres Maimik/2001/
51 min./video)
Two Estonian women—a beauty pageant organizer and a Girl Scout
troupe leader—seemingly opposed, yet both promote the same
stereotypes of patriarchy and nationalism.
Invisible – Georgia
(Liana Jakeli/2003/26 min./video)
In an isolated Georgian minority community, most Azeri girls leave
school by age 14—some already married, some facing worse fates.
Tomorrow Will Be Better? – Lithuania
(Monika Juozapaviciute/2003/39 min./video)
Four Lithuanian women—a political scientist, a small business
owner, an actress and a farmer—at varying levels of success.
Power: Feminine Gender – Ukraine
(Nina Rudik and Vlad Gello/2003/22 min./video)
Traditionally active in family life and business, women’s
political participation in independent Ukraine becomes purely decorative,
with the introduction of European-style democracy. |
