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Festivalimpressions 2017 - Sunday, 26.11.



The day started with a film and breakfast event at the women’s café “achtbar”. Tata Milouda, a protagonist from the documentary „Patience, patience, t’iras au paradis!“ was present at the event.

Tata Milouda is a poetry slammer and in 2012 she received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettre from the French cultural ministry.

Syrian and Kurdish women from the international women’s café Tübingen spontaneously sang a song from the movie with Tata Milouda.


After the documentary “A Better Man” there was a follow up discussion with expert Brigitta Kröhnert.

Brigitta Köhnert works at the women’s shelter of the organisation Frauen helfen Frauen e.V. (Women helping Women) and spoke about the difficulties of leaving a violent relationship.

In the evening, Tata Milouda was attending the screening of „Patience, patience, t’iras au paradis!“ at Kino Museum.

She spoke about her flight from Morocco to France and how she learned to read and write when she was 50 years old.

She recited one of her first text at the end of the audience discussion…

...and touched the whole audience.


Following the feature film „Khamosh Pani – Silent Waters“ Pakistani director Sabiha Sumar and her creative team discussed the film with the audience.

Sabiha Sumar talked about the development of the film and mentioned that it was originally planned to be a documentary.

Sachithanandam Sathananthan, producer of Sabiha Sumar’s films, talked about the current political situation in Pakistan.

Bernd Wolpert, director of EZEF (Evangelisches Zentrum für entwicklungsbezogene Filmarbeit) and German distributor of Sabiha Sumar’s films spoke about the current topicality of the film and the reasons behind releasing a digitalized version of the film.

Julia Rose, co-producer of the film, spoke about the shoot in Pakistan and the challenges she faced as a woman.
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Photos: Alexander Gonschior

 

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