YWCA holds international Women's Day Film Festival honoring Leyla Assaf-A Lebanese Film Director
Under the Patronage of his Excellency Minister of Tourism Fadi Abboud
The Young Women’s Christian Association
And
The Center for Women in Crisis
Have the pleasure to invite you to their International Women’s Day Film Festival
On March 8th, 9th and 10th, 2010
At the Y Cultural Center
YWCA Building, Rustom Pasha Street, Ain Mreisseh
International Women's Day (March 8) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. When women on all continents, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.
In March 2010, YWCA/CWIC are celebrating this event by organizing the First International Women’s Day Film Festival with the objective of promoting a greater understanding of the extraordinary lives of women in Lebanon and the Arab world through relevant and thought-provoking films and discussions.
Ms. Leyla Assaf is an award winning film direct or script writer and producer .Her films have been shown on Swedish Television, in several European countries as well as in the USA, Canada and Australia. She is Lebanese, and lives in Sweden since 1966. Her films often deal with sociopolitical problems, women and environmental issues. They are known to reflect much engagement and insight.
Films:
- “My Lebanon” : Documentary, 60 min, about a meeting with 6 school mates during the war in Lebanon. Each one belonging to a different community.
- “In the name of God” : Documentary 30 minutes, about the excision of the little girls in Ethiopia and its consequence.
- “Two Dollars with or without Condoms” : About young prostitutes in Addis Ababa who are selling their bodies in order to survive.
- “Not like my sister” :Documentary, 60 min, about forced marriage and the crime of honor. The film is about a young girl Dalida who refused to obey her family.
- “Freedom Gang (Sheikha)” : A movie fiction film, 96 min, about a 10 years old girl leading a street gang in Beirut just before the end of the war.
- “Martyrs” : A TV fiction film 78 minutes about a young Lebanese young girl (martyr), Nadia, and how she ended up giving her life for the cause. This film received the prize of the best drama-documentary of the year, and it has been c hosen to represent Sweden in the IMPUT Festival.
About CWIC
The YWCA established The Center for Women in Crisis in 2006, as a non-profit service to cater for women’s needs.
Objectives:
- Provide programs and services that respond to the needs of women.
- Strengthen the capacity of women leaders at all levels to participate in decision- making and influence change.
- Promote sustainable development including economic empowerment.
- Expand opportunities for the exposure of women to community issues and their impact on society.
- Fight and eliminate all forms of violence perpetrated against women.
- Advocate laws, policies and practices that protect and promote the rights of women.
- Provide programs and services that respond to the needs of women.
SPONSORS
Platinum: Alfa mobile
Film Festival Program
