For the first time this year, Tekfestival assigns a section to women directors’ productions.
It is a foray in the varied and numerous women director’s productions of fiction feature films, short films and documentaries, or maybe it’s just a taste of it.
This section does not want to be a thorough investigation but aims at screening those works that hardly find a moment of visibility in Rome, even though they are successful worldwide.
Nine films that are the example of all the camera’s different languages, that prove the director’s ability and desire to investigate thorny issues, with an aptitude for changing the common point of view.
The styles intersect with one another in different forms of documentaries and various themes: politics, memory, the relation between genders, cultural and ethnic belonging. We believe that the number of films we are offering will successfully screen the territories explored by these international women directors in the past years, the tendency of a cinema made by women. The will to write about the past, to trace a genealogy through important female characters, is still strong, as Playing a part, dedicated to the artist Claude Cahun, testify. In the meantime some of the women directors chose to narrate about collective, coral, popular stories, such as Astrid Bussink in her The Angelmakers, where the main characters are a group of dangerous Ungarian peasant women in 1900. Some of them prooved to be able to confront themselves with the political icons and myths of their past, without fearing to interact with those territories that are nowadays conseidered as taboos, such as Lina Makboul in Leila Khaled: la dirottatrice. If the documentary can be considered a look at the present contradictions through the awarded documentary by Kim Longinotto, Sisters in law, we discover that in those countries considered as backward by the Western world some women get together, organize themselves and defend themselves. With NO! by Aishah Shahidah Simmons we discover the “holy space” created by women from the black community to defend themselves from rape. Along with the documentaries three short films will be screened.
They are more ironical, sarcastic and reassuring; but they certainly make their point in narrating small and big contradictions about women life.
Cinema becomes fiction with Ryna, winner of the Sguardi Altrove festival, the first movie by the Romanian director Rixandra Zenide that offers a portrait of her country through the eyes of a young girl who is a mechanic and has a strong passion for photography. A movie that gives us a taste of the rich cinematography flourishing in the East.

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