{"id":287,"count":8,"description":"\u00bbTHERE\u2019S A CULTURAL COUNTER-REVOLUTION GOING ON RIGHT NOW, WHICH WE SEE WITH JAROS\u0141AW KACZYN\u00b4 SKI, AS WELL AS IN RUSSIA AND THE US, COUNTRIES REPRESENTED BY MEN WHO HAVE A POPULIST AUTHORITARIAN AGENDA THAT DIRECTLY ATTACKS WOMEN\u2019S RIGHTS AND NATURE CONSERVATION.\u00ab\r\nAGNIESZKA HOLLAND\r\n\r\nThe seventh edition of the Award for Best Woman Director of a Feature Film will take place in Dortmund. Eight new feature films are competing for the \u20ac15,000 first prize, to be split between the director (\u20ac5,000) and the German distributor (\u20ac10,000). The list of previous winners includes some illustrious names: Keren Yedaya (2005), Andrea Arnold (2007), Maren Ade (2009), Athina Rachel Tsangari (2011), Ma\u0142go\u015bka Szumowska (2013) and Naomi Kawase (2015). The competition has a clear aim: to honour women feature film directors who have found their own narrative style, and to promote the distribution of their films in Germany.\r\nFilms are always a vehicle for communicating issues central to the society in which they are of importance. But not everyone gets the chance to be represented and heard. This applies to roles behind the camera and also on the big screen. Complex female characters who have something to say, nonwhite people, people whose perspective and lifestyle do not marry with the hetero-normative position, are still rarely seen in mainstream cinema. In real life, too, they are currently experiencing a rising number of political setbacks.\r\nThis year\u2019s competition brings together women directors who are overcoming these forms of marginalisation \u2013 some having done so for decades now. No fewer than four star directors are nominated: Sally Potter, Agnieszka Holland, Marion H\u00e4nsel and Dominique Cabrera.\r\nThe selection includes films that explore globally and socially contentious topics, and all films feature characters who are strong yet hitherto unnoticed, whose stories have remained unknown up to now. The main character in Holland\u2019s <strong>Spoor<\/strong> is an eccentric, retired female civil engineer who campaigns for more conscientious dealings with our natural environment. The thriller is an allegory of the deeply divided society that Holland\u2019s native Poland has become under its populist-nationalist government. Sally Potter\u2019s star-studded British screwball satire <strong>The Party<\/strong> is an explosive social comedy. Potter makes a statement on role stereotypes and political ideals and tells the story of people who, before the UK\u2019s referendum on EU membership, \u00bbhad lost touch with politics and their ability at all to judge what is the truth.\u00ab (Sally Potter)\r\nThe same idea, in another guise, also applies to the two women soldiers in <strong>The Stopover<\/strong> by Delphine and Muriel Coulin. Returning from Afghanistan, the pair spend three days with their troop in a luxury resort in Cyprus \u2013 for \u00bbdecompression\u00ab as it\u2019s called in military jargon. The film presents striking images for this bizarre situation and highlights the far-reaching effect of having experienced violence. <strong>Tess<\/strong> by Meg Rickards is also a fervent appeal against sexual violence and \u00bbrape culture\u00ab. Rickards depicts the life of young sex worker Tess and presents a less familiar picture of the white lower class in South Africa.\r\nA keen interest in young protagonists again features prominently in this year\u2019s competition. How do young people cope with increasingly hostile attitudes? How do they find their own way in conflicting social systems? How do they resist patriarchal norms? These issues are covered in the coming-of-age stories <strong>Corniche Kennedy<\/strong>, <strong>Don\u2019t Call Me Son<\/strong>, and <strong>Parisienne<\/strong>. Marion H\u00e4nsel\u2019s maritime road movie <strong>Upstream<\/strong> joins the ranks of people and stories rarely found in this complexity in mainstream cinema. _Stefanie G\u00f6rtz","link":"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/en\/movie-category\/international-feature-film-competition-for-women-directors-en-2017\/","name":"International Feature Film Competition for Women Directors","slug":"international-feature-film-competition-for-women-directors-en-2017","taxonomy":"movie_cat","parent":286,"meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>International Feature Film Competition for Women Directors - 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-spielfilmwettbewerb-fuer-regisseurinnen-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"International Feature Film Competition for Women Directors - Internationales Frauen Film Fest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00bbTHERE\u2019S A CULTURAL COUNTER-REVOLUTION GOING ON RIGHT NOW, WHICH WE SEE WITH JAROS\u0141AW KACZYN\u00b4 SKI, AS WELL AS IN RUSSIA AND THE US, COUNTRIES REPRESENTED BY MEN WHO HAVE A POPULIST AUTHORITARIAN AGENDA THAT DIRECTLY ATTACKS WOMEN\u2019S RIGHTS AND NATURE CONSERVATION.\u00ab AGNIESZKA HOLLAND The seventh edition of the Award for Best Woman Director of a Feature Film will take place in Dortmund. Eight new feature films are competing for the \u20ac15,000 first prize, to be split between the director (\u20ac5,000) and the German distributor (\u20ac10,000). The list of previous winners includes some illustrious names: Keren Yedaya (2005), Andrea Arnold (2007), Maren Ade (2009), Athina Rachel Tsangari (2011), Ma\u0142go\u015bka Szumowska (2013) and Naomi Kawase (2015). The competition has a clear aim: to honour women feature film directors who have found their own narrative style, and to promote the distribution of their films in Germany. Films are always a vehicle for communicating issues central to the society in which they are of importance. But not everyone gets the chance to be represented and heard. This applies to roles behind the camera and also on the big screen. Complex female characters who have something to say, nonwhite people, people whose perspective and lifestyle do not marry with the hetero-normative position, are still rarely seen in mainstream cinema. In real life, too, they are currently experiencing a rising number of political setbacks. This year\u2019s competition brings together women directors who are overcoming these forms of marginalisation \u2013 some having done so for decades now. No fewer than four star directors are nominated: Sally Potter, Agnieszka Holland, Marion H\u00e4nsel and Dominique Cabrera. The selection includes films that explore globally and socially contentious topics, and all films feature characters who are strong yet hitherto unnoticed, whose stories have remained unknown up to now. The main character in Holland\u2019s Spoor is an eccentric, retired female civil engineer who campaigns for more conscientious dealings with our natural environment. The thriller is an allegory of the deeply divided society that Holland\u2019s native Poland has become under its populist-nationalist government. Sally Potter\u2019s star-studded British screwball satire The Party is an explosive social comedy. Potter makes a statement on role stereotypes and political ideals and tells the story of people who, before the UK\u2019s referendum on EU membership, \u00bbhad lost touch with politics and their ability at all to judge what is the truth.\u00ab (Sally Potter) The same idea, in another guise, also applies to the two women soldiers in The Stopover by Delphine and Muriel Coulin. Returning from Afghanistan, the pair spend three days with their troop in a luxury resort in Cyprus \u2013 for \u00bbdecompression\u00ab as it\u2019s called in military jargon. The film presents striking images for this bizarre situation and highlights the far-reaching effect of having experienced violence. Tess by Meg Rickards is also a fervent appeal against sexual violence and \u00bbrape culture\u00ab. Rickards depicts the life of young sex worker Tess and presents a less familiar picture of the white lower class in South Africa. A keen interest in young protagonists again features prominently in this year\u2019s competition. How do young people cope with increasingly hostile attitudes? How do they find their own way in conflicting social systems? How do they resist patriarchal norms? These issues are covered in the coming-of-age stories Corniche Kennedy, Don\u2019t Call Me Son, and Parisienne. 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