{"id":277,"count":8,"description":"<h2>Women\u2019s film-making in all its diversity, beauty and ambiguity<\/h2>\r\nFilm debuts are an indicator of the subjects that are of particular importance to young women film-makers. They bear witness to the new generation\u2019s creativity and imaginativeness and give us an idea of the direction film-making may take. One thing that is clear is the continuing increase in the number of films made by women \u2013 a record 150 debut feature films from 50 countries were preselected for this year\u2019s competition. Hence, the current buzzword and tenet of diversity is almost effortlessly fulfilled. We have an almost overwhelming diversity of stories and formal styles in our competition. For the first time, we include two films from Africa, films that could hardly be more different. There is the magical surrealism of<strong> I Am Not a Witch<\/strong> from Zambia, in which Rungano Nyoni juxtaposes unusual shots to paint a picture of a tribal community paralysing itself with archaic rituals. In <strong>Benzine<\/strong>, on the other hand, Tunisian director Sarra Abidi relies on documentary realism to poignantly portray families affected by migration. Like Nyoni, whose film is the first ever to meet all the diversity criteria formulated by the<em> British Film Institute<\/em>, Fanni Metelius also adopts an interesting route to give a well-known genre \u2013 the romance \u2013 a gender-appropriate inner life in <strong>Hj\u00e4rtat<\/strong>. The competition introduces us to people of all colours, generations and backgrounds \u2013 a single father, an Arab German teacher, a pregnant rugby player. And we see film-making agendas that point towards a more equitable future in film. A promising outlook indeed.\r\n_Stefanie G\u00f6rtz","link":"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/en\/movie-category\/international-debut-feature-film-competition-en-2018\/","name":"International Debut Feature Film Competition","slug":"international-debut-feature-film-competition-en-2018","taxonomy":"movie_cat","parent":276,"meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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-2018-2018\/\" \/>\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=\"Women\u2019s film-making in all its diversity, beauty and ambiguity Film debuts are an indicator of the subjects that are of particular importance to young women film-makers. 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