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| «1000 Women and a Dream» |
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In 2005, a very unusual nomination was made to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. 1000 Women from all over the world were collectively nominated for the most important Peace Prize – 1000 women whose peace work takes place day by day but often isn’t even registered by the public. For over two years the nomination of these 1000 women had been prepared from Switzerland and accompanied by the film team Gabriela Neuhaus and Angelo Scudeletti of Offroad Reports over the complete time.
The documentary film «1000 Women and a Dream» shows how the idea of a Swiss politician developed into a global project, it describes the |
thrilling way and also the many stumble stones. But above all it tells the moving stories of the PeaceWomen nominees. For example: Maggy Barankitse from Burundi. In the great massacres of the civil war she saved the lives of thousands of children and gave them a future. Or Naseeb Mohammad Shaikh in the Indian state of Gujarat. She lost her husband, her daughter and over thirty relatives during the racialist campaigns and arson attacks in 2002 and now travels from village to village to fight the hate between people.
In Israel the film accompanies the woman doctor Ruchama Marton and her mobile clinic during operation on the other side of the Israeli wall. With her consequent fight for the rights of Palestinians and Bedouin people, Ruchama is often misunderstood in her own country. On the other side, in the occupied territories of the West Bank, the Palestinian rural woman Nafessa Al Dek promotes peace in her way. During the difficult times of blockade she provided women in her village and the neighbourhoods with work and livelihoods. Her house has become a centre for children whose education is a matter close to Nafeesa’s heart.
Unfortunately the 1000 women did not get the Nobel Peace Prize: The committee chose the International Atomic Energy Agency and their director Mohamed El Baradei. It was a great disappointment for the initiators, but the project has accomplished one goal despite everything: The engagement of women like Maggie, Naseeb oder Ellen was made visible: An exhibition and a book carry the stories of the 1000 PeaceWomen into the whole world. «1000 Women and a Dream» was honoured with the Bertha-von-Sutter Prize for Arts and Media 2008 (Germany) in the category Film & Media.
For more information visit www.1000womenfilm.ch
The film is available in English, German and Arabic.
Length: 55 min
The film can be ordered as a DVD from Offroad Reports: www.offroadreports.ch
Price: CHF 48.–/ Euro ca. 32.– (plus packaging and shipping charges)
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| «Redefining Peace» |
The documentary film presents stirring pictures of the work of Indian PeaceWomen. It was produced by SANGAT together with Visual Arts Productions and is directed by the renowned activist film-maker K. P. Sasi from India.
The one-hour film documents the history of the initiative «1000 Women for Nobel Peace Prize» and focuses on ten PeaceWomen from different regions of India, as Magline Peter from the Fishworkers movement, or Medha Patkar, fighting against the construction of dams in the Narmada Valley. Teesta Setalvad, a lawyer and journalist, is struggeling against a fascist state and fundamentalist political forces. C. K. Janu commits herself to the rights of indigenous people, above all of the Adivasis. Sharmila Irom is a young woman who uses non-violent means to help abolish draconian laws in North East India. The film highlights also the work of the four grassroots women Lataben Sachde, Parmeben Sava, Alaben Jani, Meghiben Samariya from Kutch Mahila Vikas Sanghthan, Gujarat, and their struggle for sustainable health, education and livelihoods for all the masses. «Redefining Peace: Women Lead the Way» received the Best Film Award and the Best Documentary Award at the 3rd Swaralaya International Film Festival held in Palghat in July 2006.
The film is available in Hindu/English with English subtitles.
Length: 60 min
Price: CHF 35.–/ Euro ca. 22.– (plus packaging and shipping charges)
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| «Blutgetränkte Erde» |
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«Blood-soaked Earth»
The Xukuru-people, aborigines of north-east Brazil, have been fighting for years for the territory awarded to them by law. The charismatic chief of the 8000 Xukuru, Kazike Chicao, was murdered by pistoleros on behalf of large landowners nine years ago. But his spirit is still alive thanks to the work of his widow.
The film shows the untiring fight of the aborigines for their territory. Dona Zenilda, the widow of the Kazike Chicao, was appointed one of the 1000 PeaceWomen, because of her commitment as consultant and ambassador of her Xukuru people. Dona Zenilda can leave the reservation only in the company of body guards. A Film by Charlotte Eichhorn.
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| «Quilombolas – Afrikanische Seelen in brasilianischer Haut. Die Nachfahren afrikanischer Sklaven» |
«Quilombolas – African Souls in Brazilian Skin. The Descendants of African Slaves»
In the 17th century African slaves were sold to the oligarchs of sugar plantations in Brazil. Some of them could flee to the hinterland where they founded a kind of defence villages. So they could survive together with their African traditions. Today, their descendants - the Quilombolas –, fight for their rights and against the modern version of enslavement by the mechanisms of globalisation, like the takeover of land by monocultures which cause ecological and social problems.
Dona Faustina co-organized the first conference in order to inform the Afro-Brazilian ethnic group about their rights, but also about the origin of their rites.
PeaceWoman Dona Givania is another pioneer for the rigths of the Quilombolas – she is the first Quilombola deputy elected in her administrative district.
A Film by Charlotte Eichhorn.
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| «Frauen bewegen eine Nation» |
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«Women move a Nation»
Patsy Henderson is a Pakeha. This is how Maoris, the aborigines of New Zealand, call white male and female immigrants. Pauline Tangiora is a Maori-Eldest, an international fighter for the rights of the aborigines. Both PeaceWomen reconstruct the socio-political background of the collapse of indigenous people. They comment on poverty, violent machos and drugs in Maori families as well as on new beginnings, chances, education and joint environmental actions in a global world. The women try to break through walls of convictions/prejudices and to correct colonial historiography. Charlotte Eichhorn presents both committed women. |
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| «Let the World See» |
«Peace is ...
... when all girls from poor families could go to university.»
... when the desert became oasis and human beings and nature lived in harmony.»
... when there were gender equality and Muslims and non-Muslims lived in solidarity.»
when all children, rural or urban, male or female, could benefit from their right to education.»
These definitions of peace are from three very different chinese women. As questions of development, poverty and environmental deterioration, of urban-rural division and unequal educational opportunities become more and more acute, these women have to tackle visible and invisible violence in their everyday life with different practices, with courage and wisdom.
The film is available in traditional Chinese/English with Chinese subtitles.
Length: 52 min
Price: CHF 35.–/ Euro ca. 22.– (plus packaging and shipping charges)
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| «Making Possible the Impossible» |
| Is peace simply defined by the absence of war? How is it related to women and their everyday life?
The film features the stories of the four PeaceWomen Liu Ngun-fung, Wu Lo-sai Rose, Wong Waiking and a woman of the Woman Worker’s Cooperative. The documentary explores different kinds of violence, visible or invisible, physical or cultural, embedded in everyday life in Hong Kong, and how women deal with violent situations. One important message of the film: Peace is an attitude on life worth struggling for.
The film is available in Cantonese and has subtitles in traditional Chinese.
Length: 52 min
The film is available as a DVD.
Price: CHF 35.–/ Euro ca. 25.– (plus packaging and shipping charges)
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