DOCUMENTING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Nine award-winning feature films and documentaries from around the world will be screened during the inaugural Bangkok Film Festival on Ending Violence against Women and Girls at SF World Cinema, CentralWorld, from Nov 26-29.
Organised by UN Women Asia Pacific, the film festival features movies that focus on issues that millions of women and girls across the world endure, including domestic violence, child marriage, “honour” killings, sexual harassment and rape, but also on broader issues of discrimination such as limited access to education and unsafe labour migration. The festival will kick off with the screening of Pakistani movie Dukhtar (Daughter) on Nov 26 at 7.30pm. It continues with Ilo Ilo, a drama from Singapore which tells the fictional story of a migrant worker, on Nov 27 at 5.30pm, followed by a panel discussion on migrant workers and violence. Te Doy Mis Ojos (Take My Eyes) from Spain, critically acclaimed for its unclichéd treatment of domestic violence, will be screened at 8.30pm. The Nov 28 programme commences with
When We Leave at 2.30pm. It focuses on the struggle of a young German woman of Turkish decent for independence from her traditional family. At 5pm will see
Girl Rising, a US documentary which tells the moving stories of nine girls from around the world and their quest for education. The screening will be followed by a side event on education and violence with the participation of representatives of Unesco and UN Women.
This theme will be explored in the French drama, Girlhood, at 8pm. The final day will address different accounts of domestic violence with the screening of Argentine film
Refugiado (Refugee) at 3pm and US documentary Private
Violence at 5pm. A related side event will be held afterwards. The film festival concludes with the 7.30pm screening of the Israeli/American documentary, Brave Miss
World, in which Linor Abargil, former winner of Miss World, turns her story of tragedy into a form of global activism against rape.