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#Female Pleasure

Schweiz Deutschland 2016-2018 Dokumentarfilm

Documentary feature about five women with five different cultural and religious backgrounds, who are fighting for sexual freedom for women and against the demonization of and contempt for female sexuality. The film portrays Deborah Feldman, a Jewish woman from New York, who was forced into an arranged marriage and has described the brutal and repressive traditions of Hasidic Judaism in her best-selling memoir "Unorthodox"; Vithika Yadav, a Hinduistic Indian, who founded the first Indian sex education platform "Love Matters"; Leyla Hussein, a Muslima from Somalia, who is fighting against child marriage and female genital mutilation; Doris Wagner, a German catholic, who was sexually abused as a convent pupil and in her books writes about double moral standards of and sexual assaults in the catholic church; as well as the Japanese Manga and action artist Rokudenashiko, who was arrested after creating a 3D model of her own vagina. Even though all five women are facing defamation, persecution and death threats because of their activism, they are not backing down.

Credits

Director

  • Barbara Miller

Screenplay

  • Barbara Miller (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Akiba Jiro
  • Anne Misselwitz
  • Gabriela Betschart

Editing

  • Isabel Meier

Music

  • Peter Scherer

Production company

  • Mons Veneris Films GmbH (Zürich)
  • Indi Film GmbH (Stuttgart/Berlin)
  • Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke GmbH (Zürich)

Producer

  • Philip Delaquis

Alle Credits

Director

  • Barbara Miller

Screenplay

  • Barbara Miller (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Akiba Jiro
  • Anne Misselwitz
  • Gabriela Betschart

Editing

  • Isabel Meier

Sound design

  • Tom Weber

Sound

  • Antje Volkmann

Audio mixing

  • Andreas Mühlschlegel

Music

  • Peter Scherer

Production company

  • Mons Veneris Films GmbH (Zürich)
  • Indi Film GmbH (Stuttgart/Berlin)
  • Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke GmbH (Zürich)

in co-production with

  • Teleclub AG (Zürich)
  • RSI-Radiotelevisione Svizzera (Lugano)
  • RTS Radio Télévision Suisse (Genf)
  • Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (Bern)

in association with

  • Arte G.E.I.E. (Straßburg)

Producer

  • Philip Delaquis

Co-Producer

  • Arek Gielnik

Producer (TV)

  • Claudia Bucher (Arte)
  • Beatrice Meier (Arte)
  • Urs Augstburger (SRF/RTS/RSI)
  • Irène Challand (SRF/RTS/RSI)
  • Silvana Bezzola (SRF/RTS/RSI)
  • Sven Wälti (SRG/SSR)
  • Anke Beining-Wellhausen (Teleclub)

Executive producer

  • Melanie Winiger
  • Roswitha Schild
  • Ellen Ringier

Original distributor

  • X Verleih AG (Berlin)

Funding

  • Bundesamt für Kultur (Bern)
  • Eurimages (Straßburg)
  • Zürcher Filmstiftung (Zürich)
  • MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH (Stuttgart)
  • Suissimage (Bern)
Duration:
101 min
Format:
DCP, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 04.09.2018, 182110, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Aufführung (CH): 05.08.2018, Locarno, IFF;
Kinostart (DE): 08.11.2018

Titles

Additional titles
  • Schreibvariante (DE) #FemalePleasure
  • Untertitel (DE) Fünf Kulturen, fünf Frauen, eine Geschichte
  • Originaltitel (DE) #Female Pleasure

Versions

Original

Duration:
101 min
Format:
DCP, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 04.09.2018, 182110, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Aufführung (CH): 05.08.2018, Locarno, IFF;
Kinostart (DE): 08.11.2018

Awards

DOK Leipzig 2018
  • Spezialpreis der interreligiösen Jury
Filmfestival Locarno 2018
  • Premio Zonta Club Locarno, Film mit besonderem sozialen Engagement
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