{"id":509,"count":8,"description":"<h2>Intensive and brave \u2013\r\nthe women directors of the 2011 feature film competition are not afraid of tackling issues laden with conflict.<\/h2>\r\nThe debate has taken off again, that much can be said. The public interest, where women play active roles in making decisions in politics, business and culture, has increased, yet the conclusions are very varied and give no cause for celebration, as can be seen from the debate in Germany about a quota system for women.\r\n\r\nIn the field of film there also seems to be a growing sense of indignation over the glaring inequalities of job distribution in the motion picture production industry. Campaigns such as \u00bbYou Cannes not be serious\u00ab as a reaction to the selection of competition films at Cannes 2010, in which \u2013 not for the first time \u2013 there was not a single film by a women director, or the \u00bbCinema of Women\u00ab special edition of the <em>Zeit magazine<\/em> for the Berlinale 2011, bring some sobering statistics to a wider public. The proportion of women working in the film business, for example in the cinema distribution of their films or in awarding prizes at the large festivals, lies below 10%. The women\u2018s film festivals of this world, from Seoul to Dortmund, have long been appalled by this state of affairs and are striving to give more prominence to the film works of women.\r\n\r\nThe International Feature Film Competition for Women Directors is presenting eight new feature films in Dortmund covering part of the spectrum of the work of women filmmakers. 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