{"id":234,"count":8,"description":"<h2>Don't be afraid of grumpy women*<\/h2>\r\n\u00bbLET'S DO SOMETHING THAT WE'RE SCARED OF, THAT'S DISTURBING, SOMETHING WE'VE NEVER DONE BEFORE. LET'S TAKE RISKS.\u00ab SHANNON MURPHY\r\n\r\nMariam advises her husband to turn around and disappear again \u2013 she's better off without him, she says. Milla, 15 and a cancer patient, wants to enjoy life to the full until she draws her dying breath, with no regard to the shocked people around her. Ying-juan puts up her entire body weight to resist the glorious promises of the neoliberal body normativity. Elpida uses the hormones unleashed by menopause to find a way out of her narrow-gauge life. Katja throws people that annoy her on the mat or out of the window. The protagonists of our competition selection this year are hungry for knowledge, ambitious, witty, grumpy, sensual, unhappy, stubborn, angry, fat, strong and loud. Are they also nice? Not so much.\r\n\r\nAround 130 international productions made it onto the competition's longlist. Regardless of the films' origins, many of the rising stars who directed them (and that is not to say they are all young, with some having produced their directorial debuts way over the age of 30) have chosen to focus on toxic masculinity. Even more of them have spotlighted protagonists who have to travel a rocky road before they can understand who they are, what they want and how to live free. Their endeavours are certainly not always crowned with success, but the Geena Davis adage \u00bbIf she can see it, she can be it\u00ab is true for so much more than just one's choice of profession. The variety of decisions, lifestyles, looks, physiques and characters in these films is great fun and opens up a generous space to breathe and think.\r\nStefanie G\u00f6rtz","link":"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/en\/movie-category\/international-debut-feature-film-competition-en-2020\/","name":"International Debut Feature Film Competition","slug":"international-debut-feature-film-competition-en-2020","taxonomy":"movie_cat","parent":225,"meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>International Debut Feature Film Competition - Internationales Frauen Film Fest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/movie-category\/internationaler-debuet-spielfilmwettbewerb-2020\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"International Debut Feature Film Competition - Internationales Frauen Film Fest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Don&#8217;t be afraid of grumpy women* \u00bbLET&#8217;S DO SOMETHING THAT WE&#8217;RE SCARED OF, THAT&#8217;S DISTURBING, SOMETHING WE&#8217;VE NEVER DONE BEFORE. 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